· Private foundation
Adams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $15,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FAIRHOPE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $6,040 |
| LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY ROTARY CHARITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +48%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%- MMMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF SORROWS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CTCAPRI THEATREone grant, 2017 · $6k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Organization's mission loyola marymount university maintains a three-fold mission: 1)the encouragement of learning, 2) the education of the whole person, and 3)the service of faith and the promotion of justice.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.
Union college, chartered by the state of new york in 1795, is one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished liberal arts colleges with engineering. consistently ranked among the nation's top colleges, union is a leader in educating…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fairhope Rotary Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA KAPPA EPSILON ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LYMAN WARD MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adams Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.