· Private foundation
John & Patricia 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $580k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RH Dana Booster Club | $140,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| UCSF | $75,000 |
| DOCTORS WO BORDERS | $50,000 |
| William M BeDell Achievement and Re | $50,000 |
| Salvation army usa | $31,300 |
| Cato Institute | $30,000 |
| Harbor Point Church | $30,000 |
| CHOC Foundation | $26,133 |
| BERTS BIG ADVENTURE | $25,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club SJC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Shriners Hospitals | $25,000 |
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, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 19 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +46%
- RTROOM TO READ8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +37%
- BBBERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- UHUI Healthone grant, 2024 · $50k
- TBTHE BCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $45k
- CHChildren's HospitalResearch Centerone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
Every cure is on a mission to save and improve lives by repurposing drugs, utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to systematically scan the world's biomedical knowledge across all approved drugs and all known diseases to…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The mission of the colorectal cancer alliance is end colon and rectal cancer and support the nearly 50,000 afflicted with this disease each year. this is achieved by supporting preventative measures, accelerating research toward cures, and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 132 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Impact 100 East Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SET TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAS ALANO CLUB ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOC 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Patricia Adams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Patricia Adams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: 31% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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