· Private foundation
Adco Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BYELYE AVERY FUND - CUNY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ADCO STUDENT FUND | $2,000 |
| INTER FAITH VOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE FOR JUSTICE | $1,500 |
| 1473 WOMEN & JUSTICE PROJECTS | $1,090 |
| SEE | $1,000 |
| WOMEN AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| COLLECTIVE POWER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIES | $500 |
| NEW PRESS | $500 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Adco Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +167% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CFCROSSROADS FUND INC2× · 2017–2018 · $61k · revenue +167%
- TGTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +203%
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- BLBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +33%
- TFTEACHING FOR CHANGEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -22%
- CLCIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBLIC POLICYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Pregnancy justice advances and defends the rights of pregnant people, no matter if they give birth, experience a pregnancy loss, or have an abortion. we advance our mission in four ways: by providing criminal defense, by advocating for…
The national institute for reproductive health action fund conducts non-partisan issue advocacy and electoral engagement to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice in states and cities across the country. nirh action fund builds…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
Iwpr champions economic equity for all women and eliminates barriers to their full participation in society. as a leading national think tank, iwpr builds evidence to shape policies that grow women's power and influence, close inequality…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The center for the women of new york helps women overcome financial, violence,social, wellness, and legal issues by raising awareness and advocating for full gender equality for women.
The national network of abortion funds (nnaf) is determined to build a world where all reproductive options are valued, accessible, and stigma-free. we believe all people know how to best care for their own bodies and build their own…
The feminist press is a non-profit educational organization founded to amplify feminist voices. fp publishes classic and new writing from around the world, creates cutting edge programs, and elevates silenced and marginalized voices in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collective Power Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Motherpath 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 57 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEACHING FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds STRYCKER'S BAY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MOTHERPATH INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Voices For Repro ↗
- Who funds Uzazi Village ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds Women Against Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE POWER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
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 Ford Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Groundswell Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Jewish Communal Fund · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Proteus Fund Inc
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 Adco 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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.
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