· Private foundation
F W & C S Adams Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k21 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $172,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $172,500 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA | $25,000 |
| CASPAR INC | $20,000 |
| Dove Inc | $20,000 |
| FOOD LINK INC | $20,000 |
| Berkshire Nursing Families Inc | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BOSTON INC | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS (BOSTON BAR ASSN) | $20,000 |
| Mill City Grows Inc | $20,000 |
| Massachusetts Affordable Housing | $15,000 |
| Crossroads Continuum Inc | $15,000 |
| SECOND STEP INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILYAID BOSTON INC | $15,000 |
| Lovin Spoonfuls Inc | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $539k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +260%
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +153%- CICASPAR INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- PFPRES & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- VOVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +127%
- MIMASS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEEone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization F W & C S Adams Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F W & C S Adams Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Respond Inc: 80% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc: 76% of income from government
- Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
- Community Action Inc: 52% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
- English at Large Inc: 49% of income from government
- Boston Senior Home Care Inc: 43% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc: 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Spectrum Health Systems Inc: 33% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
- Valley Opportunity Council Inc: 25% of income from government
- Digger Foods Inc: 15% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc: 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
- Crossroads Continuum Inc: 5% of income from government
- Respond Inc: 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
- Caspar Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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