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Jeff & Tina 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.

$154k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
38
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 38
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$282k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$154k23%
FY202438$135k16%
FY202338$155k24%
FY202236$151k31%
FY202130$78kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$193kReligion$75kArts & Culture$46kHealth$41kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$25kEducation$23kCrime & Legal$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($298k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee: $153,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMaury Regional Heathcare Foundation: $32,850 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetA Youth Educational Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetMaury County Historical Benefit Association: $23,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCasa of Maury County Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCenter of Hope: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetColumbia Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Center Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Zoo Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFrist Art Museum: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaury County Chamber and Economic Alliance: $6,150 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Middle Tennessee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKids Place a Child Advocacy Center: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetColumbia State Community College Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThrift Love for Vocational Abilities Corp: $3,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPay Grace Forward: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMaury United Ministries: $2,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMaury Chaplain Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBright Apple Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetColumbia Peace & Justice Initiative Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Well Outreach Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Crichton Family FoundationTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crichton Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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.

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About Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation

How much does Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation give?
Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $153,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 38 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (36%), Religion (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee ($154k), Maury Regional Heathcare Foundation ($33k), A Youth Educational Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crichton Family Foundation, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
Where is Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation based?
Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 64 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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