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Adx Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Crime & Legal$550kFood & Nutrition$300kCommunity Improvement$225kHealth$173kHuman Services$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kInternational$20kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,940
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC$7,940
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $45k → 11%NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45k → 8%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $20k → 7%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $75k → 11%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK METRO: $3k → 6%WHYHUNGER: $45k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT TEXAS: $45k → 11%COALITION FOR THE EPIDEMIC COVID: $100k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $45k → 19%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $3k → 13%ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $25k → 11%NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 8%THE GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 11%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 8%WHYHUNGER: $30k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT TEXAS: $25k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $25k → 19%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 13%LITERACY MATTERS: $20k → 11%WHYHUNGER: $30k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 11%UNICEF: $20k → 17%CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC: $45k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT OF NEW YORK: $45k → 17%CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC: $8k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE UPPER MIDWEST: $3k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE UPPER MIDWEST: $3k → 11%LONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 11%LONGFELLOW BUISNESS ASSOCIATION: $80k → 11%LONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 11%SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $90k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $45k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $40k → 11%CAN DO CANINES: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 11%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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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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$558k · 4 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$558k
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+73%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • LB
    LONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $175k · revenue +31%
  • WI
    WHYHUNGER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $105k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • CF
    COALITION FOR THE EPIDEMIC COVID
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • IP
    INNOCENCE PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • AJ
    ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +73%

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 Innocence Project Inc

The innocence project, inc. (ip) is a national nonprofit with the mission to free innocent people who have been wrongly convicted and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. the ip has helped exonerate over 251…

Human Services
2
Montana Innocence Project

Because liberty and justice are paramount to a democratic society, it is the mission of the Montana Innocence Project to free the innocent and unjustly incarcerated, and advocate for systems of Justice that are accurate, accountable, and…

Crime & Legal
3
Innocence Project New Orleans

Ipno frees innocent people sentenced to life in prison and those serving unjust sentences. we recognize the root causes of wrongful convictions and unjust sentences as systemic racism and inequities. we work to expose and address these…

Crime & Legal
4
Los Angeles Innocence Project Inc

The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.

Crime & Legal
5
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project

To seek exoneration and release of persons who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit in the district of columbia, maryland and virginia.

Crime & Legal
6
Illinois Prison Project

Through advocacy, public education, and direct representation of thousands of needlessly incarcerated people, we bring hope to and fight in community with incarcerated people and their loved ones for a brighter, more humane, more just…

7
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project

The pennsylvania innocence project works to exonerate those convicted of crimes they did not commit, to prevent innocent people from being convicted and to help the wrongfully convicted in their transition to freedom.

Crime & Legal
8
Tennessee Innocence Project

The tennessee innocence project is dedicated to investigating and litigating claims of actual innocence. it is designed to prevent and correct wrongful convictions throughout the state of tennessee.

Crime & Legal
9
Washington Innocence Project

Washington Innocence Project (WashIP) works to free innocent Washington State prisoners, improve our criminal legal system through education and advocacy, and support the wrongly convicted in Washington State as they rebuild their lives in…

Crime & Legal
10
After Innocence

After Innocence provides free re-entry assistance to individuals nationwide who have been released from prison after having been convicted of crimes they did not in fact commit, and advocates with them for a justice system that is more…

Crime & Legal
11
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Inc

Fadp is a florida-based, state-wide organization of individuals and groups working together to end the death penalty in florida. our network includes dozen of state and local groups and thousands of individual floridians, including murder…

Civil Rights
12
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Innocence Project of Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circle of Discipline Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $224,768 · OtherLONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONCOALITION FOR THE EPIDEMIC COVID — $100,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE EPIDEMIC COVIDINNOCENCE PROJECT — $75,000 · OtherINNOCENCE PROJECTNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECT — $70,000 · OtherNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECTINNOCENCE PROJECT OF NEW YORK — $45,000 · OtherINNOCENCE PROJECT OF NEW YORK+8 more — $97,850 · Other+8 moreARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT — $70,000 · Crime & LegalARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECTINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC — $70,000 · Crime & LegalINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLO…GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $70,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJEC…NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $70,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PR…GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT — $10,000 · Crime & LegalSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $175,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST…WHYHUNGER INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureInnocence Project of Texas — $70,000 · Community ImprovementCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC — $52,940 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $20,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $20,000 · International
Other$612,618Crime & Legal$290,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Arts & Culture$105,000Community Improvement$70,000Recreation & Sports$52,940International$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT — $70,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC — $70,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas — $70,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $70,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC — $52,940 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $7,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lakeshore Foundation Dated April 5 2011 · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Adx Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc30% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Adx Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Adx 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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