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F W & C S Adams Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$690k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$173k
Largest
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 2025.

Education$2.3MHuman Services$871kSocial Science$766kHealth$451kHousing & Shelter$424kYouth Development$243kFood & Nutrition$230kInternational$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $345k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 8%FII - NATIONAL: $15k → 10%RESPOND INC: $10k → 12%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $25k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $25k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $25k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $25k → 11%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL: $15k → 11%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL: $15k → 11%United South End Settlements: $15k → 16%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL: $10k → 11%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL: $10k → 11%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 17%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $10k → 10%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $10k → 8%HARBORCOV INC: $10k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $10k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $9k → 16%RESPOND INC: $25k → 8%RESPOND INC: $15k → 8%RESPOND INC: $15k → 8%RESPOND INC: $15k → 8%RESPOND INC: $15k → 8%Action For Boston Community Development: $15k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $15k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $15k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $15k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $15k → 16%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CTR: $10k → 16%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 40 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
30

Total granted

$4.6M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+60%

Still filing today

68%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +260%
  • SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +153%
  • CI
    CASPAR INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • PF
    PRES & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • VO
    VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +127%
  • MI
    MASS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE
    one 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.

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
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Community Cooks Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
6
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
7
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

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…

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8
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
9
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
11
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

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…

Health
12
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Visiting Nurse & Community Health 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
55/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,469,750 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLMASS INSTITUTE OF: $766,000 · OtherMASS INSTITUTE OFFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $165,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BOSTON INC: $140,000 · Other+38 more: $1,147,000 · Other+38 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $703,750 · EducationMassachusetts In…WriteBoston Inc: $90,000 · EducationWriteBoston IncPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $30,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $150,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST …RESPOND Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND In…CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA…RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIG…UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOU…HARBORCOV INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $60,000 · Human Services+5 moreCASPAR INC: $145,000 · HealthVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $90,000 · HealthFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $20,000 · HealthSPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $87,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOODLINK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULS: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GROWS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDIGGER FOODS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $61,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Action Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,687,750Education$853,750Human Services$549,000Health$330,000Youth Development$192,500Food & Nutrition$180,000Community Improvement$86,000

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $703,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $165,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $150,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCASPAR INC: $145,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWriteBoston Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $87,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRESPOND Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY: $85,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON SENIOR HOME CARE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $70,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $61,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gray House Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFOOD LINK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPOONFULS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetENGLISH AT LARGE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARBORCOV INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDOVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIGGER FOODS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetRESPOND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
  • Who funds CASPAR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WriteBoston Inc ↗
  • Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
  • Who funds RESPOND Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SENIOR HOME CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
  • Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Gray House Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
  • Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH AT LARGE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds HARBORCOV INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA49.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 80 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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