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Adams Legacy Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$989k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
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 FY2020–2024.

Environment$883kYouth Development$564kCommunity Improvement$397kRecreation & Sports$319kPhilanthropy$305kHealth$120kHuman Services$112kHousing & Shelter$79kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $618k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY FABRICK$200,000
RESOURCE LEGACY FUND$150,000
ELINGS PARK FDN$112,500
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$105,000
LAND TRUST FOR SANTA$50,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$30,000
SAGE TRIAL ALLIANCE$30,000
HEARTS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION$30,000
SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEUR$30,000
OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA$25,000
WILDWOODS FOUNDATION$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$25,000
LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD LAND$20,000
HILLSIDE HOUSE$16,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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 (FY20–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU: $8k → 7%FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU: $5k → 7%HEARTS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HEARTS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FAMILIES FLOURISH INC: $2k → 15%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOC: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOC: $10k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $2k → 14%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

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OH
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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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 34 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
45

Total granted

$2.2M
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+41%

Still filing today

68%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WY
    Wilderness Youth Project Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +86%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +74%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • RP
    RM PYLES BOYS CAMPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • OC
    Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -1%
  • GM
    GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +67%

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
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
2
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
4
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
5
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County

We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the central coast. we connect people to the land and to each other.

Environment
6
Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River La

Engage.Protect.Enhance.Weareonamissiontobringpeople,water,andnaturetogetherwhilepursuingasustainablerevitalization of the Los Angeles River corridor.

Community Improvement
7
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
8
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…

Environment
9
Greater Farallones Association

Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.

Animals
10
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
11
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
12
Laguna Canyon Foundation

Laguna canyon foundation is dedicated to the conservation and ongoing protection of the south coast wilderness. we envision a thriving coastal ecosystem that serves as a source of inspiration, connection, and refuge for all.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twig Bazaar Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …School District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,911

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

66 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. 66 of the 100 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
45/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION — $225,000 · OtherELINGS PARK FOUNDATIONLAND TRUST FOR SANTA — $125,000 · OtherLAND TRUST FOR SANTALOS PADRES COUNCIL BSA — $115,000 · OtherLOS PADRES COUNCIL BSAIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAGE TRIAL ALLIANCE — $70,000 · OtherSAGE TRIAL ALLIANCERM PYLES BOYS CAMP — $50,000 · Other+60 more — $634,275 · Other+60 moreSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $200,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC…RESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $175,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUNDTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC …COASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL — $30,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentNATURE FOR ALL — $20,000 · Environment+8 more — $59,500 · Environment+8 moreCITY FABRICK — $220,000 · Community ImprovementCITY FABRICKCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $165,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PART…SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $300,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBA…+2 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyWilderness Youth Project Inc — $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness…GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGATEWAY MO…HEARTS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $18,500 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU — $13,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $5,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsURBANSURF4KIDS — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,294,275Environment$594,500Community Improvement$385,000Philanthropy$307,500Youth Development$290,000Human Services$129,500Recreation & Sports$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELINGS PARK FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCITY FABRICK — $220,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $220,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $165,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Nature Corps — $30,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL — $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREINS OF HOPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetGATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAYIKES — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATURE FOR ALL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLittle Schoolhouse in the Woods — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE — $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU — $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRAYLING HATCHERY INC — $11,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetURBANSURF4KIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE VALLEY CONSERVATION TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe Sailing Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKEYE CLINIC IN SOUTH SUDAN — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…California Community …Santa Barbara Foundat…Williams-Corbett Foun…Farmers & Merchants B…Brittingham Family Fo…Mosher FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…Marin Community Found…Walter J & Holly O Th…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr

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 Legacy Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Our House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Legacy Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit?

Find your warmest path to Adams Legacy Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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