· 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.
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 $10k30 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $559k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOAG HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| HAVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $98,900 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| KILLEBREW-THOMPSON MEMORIAL FUND | $68,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $55,600 |
| JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS | $54,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ART CLUB | $52,000 |
| WORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $27,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| HOLLENBECK PALMS | $25,000 |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE PARISH | $25,000 |
| SCHOOLPOWER | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
101 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 17 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- HKHARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $561k · revenue +63%
- MFMeaning Foundation4× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +112%
- CACALIFORNIA ART CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- YPYWCA - PASADENAone grant, 2019 · $50k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIESone grant, 2019 · $50k
- KVKore Venture Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -24%
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Focused Intensity Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 225 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Meaning Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds WORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COWAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HOLLENBECK PALMS ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Kore Venture Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Portal Schools ↗
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: 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
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 Fund 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc — 45% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.