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· Private foundation
BLUE ADOBE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$557k
Granted FY2017
38
Grants
10
Communities
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 38 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k24 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
$4,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BAKERSFIELD PREGNANCY CENTER$155,400
- CALVARY CHAPEL SOUTH LAKE TAHOE$136,000
- RENO-SPARKS GOSPEL MISSION$30,000
- SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BSA$30,000
- PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE$24,500
- LIFE CHOICES$16,000
- JEWS FOR JESUS$14,500
- ELEVATE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$13,500
- LOVE INC$13,000
- GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS$12,250
- CITY OF REFUGE$10,000
- FRIENDS IN SERVICE (FISH)$10,000
- AWAKEN INC$10,000
- BAKERSFIELD ARC$10,000
- CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$9,500
02The need
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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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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Christian Aid Ministries
CAMs primary purpose is to provide a trustworthy and efficient channel for Amish, Mennonite, and other conservative Anabaptist groups and individuals to minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world. Annually, CAM distributes…
Religion
2
Justice and Mercy International
Jmi exists to make justice personal for the poor, orphaned and forgotten people of the world.
International
3
Adventist Forum
The organization's mission is to foster community through conversation educating & promoting the seventh-day adventist philosophy.
Arts & Culture
4
Christian Employers Alliance
To support Christian employers in living out their faith in their workplace.
Religion
5
Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
Association of Gospel Rescue Missions exists to provide the vision, education, training, resources, guidance, representation, and nexus for missions and kindred ministries that are moving people in destitute conditions or desperate…
Human Services
6
World Renew
World Renew's mission is to engage God's people in redeeming resources and developing gifts in collaborative acts of mercy, justice, and compassion. This work, which is focused on relief and community development.
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7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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8
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
Civil Rights
9
Fuller Theological Seminary
Provides graduate degrees in Theology,Psychology,Intercultural Studies & operates Psych Center.
Education
10
Tyndale House Ministries
Minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through the publication of literature consistent with Biblical principles and through grants to other charitable entities.
Religion
11
Compassion International Incorporated
Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.
International
12
Christian Vision North America
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prison Fellowship Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Family Research Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$483,340Civil Rights$24,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Human Services$12,400Food & Nutrition$12,250International$1,500Crime & Legal$1,500Religion$1,200
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.
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.
Blue Adobe FoundationNV18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Blue Adobe Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 organisation BLUE ADOBE 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CITY OF REFUGE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +93% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 880305787 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CITY OF REFUGE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Blue Adobe Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Blue Adobe Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines