California · Private foundation
Adams Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Adams Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 | 56 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $940k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $861k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $973k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $753k | 49% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $679k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmon Killebrew-Danny Thompson Memorial Cancer Foundation Inc | $561,289 | 9 | 6% |
| Meaning Foundation | $307,000 | 4 | 9% |
| California Art Club | $262,400 | 9 | 10% |
| World Business Academy | $257,500 | 9 | 15% |
| Polytechnic School | $233,042 | 6 | 0% |
| Adams Cowan Foundation | $224,451 | 6 | 79% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $169,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $159,765 | 8 | 0% |
| Junipero Serra Catholic High School | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Francis High School | $131,400 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Adams Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Adams Cowan Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Robert a Waller Foundation
How this is measured
About Adams Fund
- How much does Adams Fund give?
- Adams Fund reported 57 grants totaling $1,305,013 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Adams Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Adams Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harmon Killebrew-Danny Thompson Memorial Cancer Foundation Inc ($561k), Meaning Foundation ($307k), California Art Club ($262k).
- Does Adams Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Adams Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Adams Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Adams Fund based?
- Adams Fund is based in CA.
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