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Adx 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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$550kFood & Nutrition$300kCommunity Improvement$225kHealth$173kHuman Services$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kInternational$20kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE$100,000
CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE$100,000
CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE$100,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $100k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT OF NEW YORK: $45k → 17%CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE: $100k → 11%CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE: $100k → 11%CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC: $45k → 11%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
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

MN
NY
MA
NV
CA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$858k · 4 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
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Total granted

$858k
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+73%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’25
Crime & LegalInternationalRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • CO
    CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $353k · revenue +124%
  • LB
    LONGFELLOW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $175k · revenue +17%

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%
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
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…

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7
Midwestern Innocence Project Inc

To educate about, advocate for, and obtain and support the exoneration and release of wrongfully convicted people in arkansas, iowa, kansas, missouri, and nebraska.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Innocence Project of Florida Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 moreCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC: $352,940 · Recreation & SportsCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INCARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $70,000 · Crime & LegalARIZONA JUSTICE PRO…INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $70,000 · Crime & LegalINNOCENCE PROJECT O…NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $70,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ENGLAND INNOCEN…GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA INNOCENCE P…GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $175,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVE…WHYHUNGER INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureInnocence Project of Texas: $70,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · International
Other$612,618Recreation & Sports$352,940Crime & Legal$290,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Arts & Culture$105,000Community Improvement$70,000International$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC: $352,940 over 3y, 14% of 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 Texas: $70,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC: $70,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $70,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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
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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Lakeshore Foundation …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Adx Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adx Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc: 30% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project: 12% 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, 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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home