Alabama · Private foundation
Adams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,040
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $675k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Adams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $30k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $27k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $24k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $79k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $38k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $82k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $41k | 86% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troy University Foundation | $115,600 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| River Region United Way | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lunches for Learning Inc | $6,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Fairhope Rotary Club Foundation | $6,040 | 1 | 3% |
| Delta Kappa Epsilon | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Association of the Los Altos Historical Museum Aka Los Altos History Museum | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association | $4,750 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troy University Foundation | $115,600 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| River Region United Way | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lunches for Learning Inc | $6,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Fairhope Rotary Club Foundation | $6,040 | 1 | 3% |
| Delta Kappa Epsilon | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Association of the Los Altos Historical Museum Aka Los Altos History Museum | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association | $4,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Third Millennium Ministries Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lyman Ward Military Academy | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montgomery Area Council on Aging | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Harbor Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montgomery Christian School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Adams Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · We3 Fund · The Landa Fund · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Adams Foundation
- How much does Adams Foundation give?
- Adams Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $44,540 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Adams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), International (37%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Adams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Troy University Foundation ($116k), San Francisco Opera Association ($40k), River Region United Way ($40k).
- Does Adams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Adams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Adams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc, We3 Fund.
- Where is Adams Foundation based?
- Adams Foundation is based in AL.
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