· Private foundation
Howell-Adams Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $28,700 |
| LITTLE THEATRE ON THE SQ | $12,000 |
| WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| MATTOON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| POST (PENENSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST) | $5,000 |
| CCAR INDUSTRIES | $4,200 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY | $4,000 |
| MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $4,000 |
| CORNBELT SHRINE CLUB | $4,000 |
| DOUGLAS-HART NATURE CENTER | $4,000 |
| HOPE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO | $4,000 |
| COLES COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CNCAMP NEW HOPE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +32%
- CICCAR INDUSTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +11%
- MCMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- BFBEAUTIFUL FEET CHURCH S B C INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA- REDHAWK DISTone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TBTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.
Seeking to put gods love into action habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes community and hope
Provide affordable housing for low income families.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
To provide safe and affordable housing to all.
To provide equal access to quality health care to all persons regardless of age, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or the ability to pay.primary activities: medical, dental, vision and related healthcare services.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Construction of homes for low income families. homes built with volunteer labor and sold at cost.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The mission of the columbia county community healthcare consortium, inc. is improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of people in our rural community.
Provide veterans with holistic services designed to eliminate barriers in obtaining permanent sustainable housing.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 44 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.
- Who funds CAMP NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CCAR INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds Coles County Habitat For Humanity ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE MILE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howell-Adams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howell-Adams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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