· Private foundation
Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $50,000 |
| MAURY HILLS CHURCH | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| JAMES K POLK ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MAURY COUNTY HISTORICAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - PERFORM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CASA OF MAURY COUNTY | $4,000 |
| MAURY COUNTY CHAMBER & ECONOMIC ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| AMUSE'UM | $3,000 |
| DUCK RIVER FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $3,000 |
| CENTER OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| MAURY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
36 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MRMAURY REGIONAL HEATHCARE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%
- AYA YOUTH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +76%
- MCMAURY COUNTY HISTORICAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue ×186
Funded once
- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COLUMBIAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CSCOLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLECE - PERFORMone grant, 2021 · $2k
- KPKIDS PLACE A CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · 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 partnership supports maury county and city governments to enhance and promote economic development opportunities in the county.
The organization provides after school and summer programs for boys and girls of maury county, tennessee. the organization's mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as…
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Operation of public tv station.
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 provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.
To develop and implement strategies that will improve the education, health, and well-being of young children and their families in montgomery county, north carolina.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
My city rides makes reliable transportation affordable and ownership possible for those in the workforce with limited means but unlimited potential, increasing opportunity for everyone.
To enforce, advance and defend the civil legal rights of low income and vulnerable people, especially on behalf of elderly, children, victims of domestic violence and persons with disabilities, by providing free, civil legal assistance to…
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chs Project Graduation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 57 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MAURY REGIONAL HEATHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A YOUTH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAURY COUNTY HISTORICAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MAURY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAURY COUNTY CHAMBER AND ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THRIFT LOVE FOR VOCATIONAL ABILITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds Pay Grace Forward ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds MAURY CHAPLAIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maury United Ministries ↗
- Who funds KIDS PLACE A CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT APPLE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Jeff & Tina 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.