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Adventist Development & Relief Agency International

See schedule othe adventist development and relief agency (adra) international works in more than 120 countries with millions of people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible action.

$47M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.5MFood & Nutrition$150kHuman Services$16kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $121,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $46,565,118 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,443,368 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$46,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST$50,000
MID-AMERICA UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST$46,750
NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $16k → 8%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

PA
CA
MD
NC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $46M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$29M · 63% · 29 grants

Stated purpose: INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT · FOOD SECURITY & FOOD AID · CROP & LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT

Middle East and North Africa$5.0M · 11% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · BASIC EDUCATION · INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT

South America$4.5M · 10% · 19 grants

Stated purpose: DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE · FOOD SECURITY & FOOD AID

East Asia and the Pacific$3.7M · 8% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT · INFRASTRUCTURE · RESETTLEMENT

Central America and the Caribbean$2.7M · 6% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · FOOD SECURITY & FOOD AID · PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$580k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$334k · 1% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT · DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE

South Asia$202k · 0% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · INSTITUTION STRENGTHENING & DEVELOPMENT · PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE

Russia and Neighboring States$49k · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: WATER, SANITATION, & HYGIENE · DISASTER RELIEF & ASSISTANCE · CROP & LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of Adventist Development & Relief Agency International’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 13%.

Adventist Development & Relief Agency Internationallessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% 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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$588k · 3 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$588k
$1.1M

Still filing today

0%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AP
    ADRA - PUERTO RICO
    3× · 2017–2020 · $304k
  • TC
    TEXAS CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $160k
  • BS
    Berean Seventhday Adventist Church
    4× · 2017–2020 · $124k

Funded once

  • SR
    SOUTHWEST REGION CONFERENCE OF
    one grant, 2017 · $407k
  • GC
    GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • AC
    ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INCgraduated
    2× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +30%
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
Loma Linda University Health

The primary purpose of loma linda university health(lluh) is to help coordinate the healing ministry of the seventh-day adventist church. this function is accomplished by managing the various schools and hospitals of lluh's core and…

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2
Loma Linda University Shared Services Inc

To participate in christ's ministry of health, healing, and wholeness for: education, healthcare, and research by providing support to the lluh entities.

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3
Ukiah Adventist Hospital

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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4
St Helena Hospital

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
5
Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
6
Adventist Health Physicians Network

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
7
Loma Linda University Health Care

Loma Linda University Health Care is organized to support the clinical teaching programs of Loma Linda University School of Medicine in conjunction with Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical Center by providing medical…

Health
8
Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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9
Adventist Health International

Enable, empower, and strengthen the multi-faceted health ministry and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church throughout the world.

International
10
Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital Inc

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
11
Adventist Health Delano

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.

Health
12
Adventist Health Mendocino Coast

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loma Linda University Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is St Helena Hospital 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWEST REGION CONFERENCE OF: $406,566 · OtherSOUTHWEST REGION CONFERENCE OFADRA - PUERTO RICO: $304,283 · OtherADRA - PUERTO RICOTEXAS CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS: $159,744 · OtherTEXAS CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTSGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS: $150,000 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTSADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC: $150,000 · OtherADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INCBerean Seventhday Adventist Church: $123,771 · OtherBerean Seventhday Adventist ChurchGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST: $75,000 · OtherFLORIDA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS: $75,000 · Other+5 more: $221,500 · Other+5 moreSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthAdventist Health SystemWest: $20,000 · HealthANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15,533 · Human Services
Other$1,665,864Health$70,000Education$50,000Human Services$15,533

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdventist Health SystemWest: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15,533 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

  • Who funds ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Adventist Health SystemWest ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗

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.

Adventist Community S…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Adventist Community Services North America IncMD32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Adventist Community Services North America Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Adventist Development & Relief Agency International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adventist Development & Relief Agency International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 17 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 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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