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Adams Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$425kEducation$337kReligion$300kHuman Services$108kYouth Development$77kEmployment$52kFood & Nutrition$47kAnimals$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREE OF LIFE$100,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATER$26,000
ARYSE$20,000
HELLO NEIGHBOR$15,000
COOPER SIEGEL LIBRARY$12,500
LITERACY PITTSBURGH$10,000
MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORP$10,000
NETHERLAND AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
JEREMIAH'S PLACE$10,000
LIVE DONOR PROJECT$10,000
WQED$6,000
FCGC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
CRE8DANCE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $8k → 16%ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $8k → 16%ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $3k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $15k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $8k → 11%HELLOW NEIGHBOR: $2k → 11%VINTAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $500 → 11%RIVERVIEW COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 24 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
49

Total granted

$1.3M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • PB
    PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +46%
  • IP
    Ithaca Public Education Initiative Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +34%
  • TP
    THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOX CHAPEL CREW DOCKS
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +55%
  • TC
    TOMPKINS COUNTY SPCA
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
2
Pittsburgh Food Policy Council

The mission of the pittsburgh food policy council is to build a food system that benefits our communities, economy, and environment in ways that are just, equitable and sustainable. driven by community-led solutions, we bring together over…

Food & Nutrition
3
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
4
Sustainable Pittsburgh

Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.

Environment
5
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
6
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
9
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…

Arts & Culture
10
Riverlife

Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.

Environment
11
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.

International
12
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Animal Assistance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr20%10%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
11%
5,060/45,776

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TREE OF LIFE — $300,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFEFOX CHAPEL CREW DOCKS — $30,000 · OtherCORNELL-DONALD S TAYLOR SCHOLARSHIP — $30,000 · OtherFCGC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION — $20,000 · Other+47 more — $194,250 · Other+47 morePITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $226,700 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE I…Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras — $65,000 · Arts & CultureThree Rivers Young Peoples …MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD — $43,000 · Arts & CultureMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUIL…PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $24,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST+5 more — $13,000 · Arts & CultureIthaca Public Education Initiative Inc — $175,000 · EducationIthaca Public Educat…ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION — $70,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE…LITERACY PITTSBURGH — $25,000 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGHJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $40,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR — $24,500 · Human ServicesITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesMEMORY MATTERS — $8,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $9,750 · Food & NutritionROSEDALE FOOD PANTRY — $2,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH — $2,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 · International
Other$594,250Arts & Culture$372,200Education$270,000Human Services$111,500Philanthropy$85,000Food & Nutrition$48,750International$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $226,700 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetIthaca Public Education Initiative Inc — $175,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION — $70,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThree Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras — $65,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD — $43,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY PITTSBURGH — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR — $24,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $9,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOMPKINS COUNTY SPCA — $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFox Chapel District Association — $5,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chapel Area Land Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFERAL CAT COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE THEATER COMPANY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetelevateHER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROSEDALE FOOD PANTRY — $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINTAGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverview Community Action Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hillman Family Founda…Richard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsThe United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationThe Burke FoundationThe Burke Family Foun…Giant Eagle FoundationMcElhattan FoundationThe Double Eagle Foun…
Hillman Family FoundationsPA43.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43

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 Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Adams Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Adams Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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