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Adobe Foundation

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.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$15MEducation$15MArts & Culture$14MInternational$13MHealth$4.8MCommunity Improvement$4.8MHuman Services$3.8MCrime & Legal$3.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+20 grants · $12M
$300,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM$2,112,220
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$2,000,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC$1,000,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$750,000
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC$500,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$500,000
EQUALITY NOW INC$500,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC$500,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
ASIAN LAW CAUCUS$500,000
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$500,000
THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA$500,000
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL$500,000
HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY$400,000
SAN JOSE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION$300,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($73M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($10M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $750k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $160k → 10%VETSINTECH: $500k → 10%VETSINTECH: $500k → 10%VETSINTECH: $500k → 10%VETSINTECH: $250k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($10M)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$8.3M · 8 grants
Japan$503k · 3 grants
India$250k · 1 grant
Brazil$250k · 1 grant
France$250k · 1 grant
Germany$250k · 1 grant
Switzerland$200k · 2 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Adobe Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Adobe Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67M · 33 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
31

Total granted

$67M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

94%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    2× · 2023–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +53%
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +77%
  • NN
    NAMI National
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • TJ
    THE JED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
  • TL
    THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Jose State University Research Foundation

As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
5
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asmp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM: $6,326,107 · OtherVICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUMOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $3,500,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3,500,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEHispanic Heritage Foundation: $1,750,000 · OtherHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1,300,000 · OtherVETSINTECH: $1,750,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,160,000 · OtherUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,750,000 · Other+30 more: $13,063,294 · Other+30 moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $7,000,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH IN…Equality Now Inc: $3,000,000 · InternationalEquality Now IncDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $2,500,000 · InternationalDISABILITY RIGHTS FUN…DIRECT RELIEF: $1,700,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue …+3 more: $855,000 · InternationalBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · EducationBOWIE STATE UNIVERS…Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc: $3,000,000 · EducationWinston-Salem State…THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATIO…Thurgood Marshall College Fund: $1,896,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall C…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,795,842 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH…KHAN ACADEMY INC: $995,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Education+1 more: $250,000 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,500,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,750,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $260,000 · Civil RightsMuseum of Modern Art: $4,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $550,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $152,500 · Arts & CultureNAMI National: $3,000,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Health+1 more: $100,000 · HealthAsian Law Caucus: $3,000,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN: $500,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$34,099,401International$16,055,000Education$14,436,842Civil Rights$5,510,000Arts & Culture$5,502,500Health$4,100,000Crime & Legal$3,500,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $7,000,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,500,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $3,500,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3,500,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNAMI National: $3,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc: $3,000,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $3,000,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $2,500,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $1,896,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,795,842 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,750,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHispanic Heritage Foundation: $1,750,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetVETSINTECH: $1,750,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,750,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1,300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDestination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $995,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCinequest Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetKELSEY: $600,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $550,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN: $500,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLocal Color: $400,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $360,116 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy: $350,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCalifornia Emerging Technology Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODEORG: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReporters Without Borders Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Tides FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Applied Materials…Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Rotary Club of San Jo…Valley Health Foundat…Silicon Valley CreatesThe Ford FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…Bright Funds Foundati…The Milligan Family F…
Tides FoundationCA23.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · Silicon Valley Creates · The Ford Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Milligan Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adobe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adobe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Adobe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Adobe Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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