· Private foundation
Doug and Tamra Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGGIE L WALKER GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GOOCHLAND HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | $9,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $2,500 |
| BON SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VPM MEDIA CORPORATION | $1,200 |
| CARING CLOTHES CLOSET RVA | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| GOOCHLAND CASA | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $1,000 |
| CENTREVILLE VA FIRE & RESCUE | $500 |
| COURTHOUSE VOL FIRE & RESCUE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +46%
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICS3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +40%
- GCGoochland-Powhatan CASA4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- GEGOOCHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2021 · $6k
- RERANDOLPH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- GEGOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The foundation operates as a "supporting organization" by providing funding to support the charitable and educational activities of vpm media corporation.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) and the most unlike its peers is Goochland Christmas Mother. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds Goochland-Powhatan CASA ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR IN RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND CHRISTMAS MOTHER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pga Tour Charities Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · The Reinhart Foundation · Luck Companies Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Doug and Tamra Adams Family 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.
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.