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La Salle Adams Fund

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
10
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of La Salle Adams Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year La Salle Adams Fund named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’18
10
’19
0
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$250,000
States reached, FY2018
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$46MEnvironment$3.1MRecreation & Sports$100kCivil Rights$60k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy$1,000,00025%
Earthjustice$550,00020%
The Wilderness Society$450,00021%
Western Organization of Resource Councils$380,00029%
National Parks Conservation Association$355,00020%
Resources Legacy Fund$250,00020%
Montana Wilderness Association$110,00023%
Public Land Solutions$100,000216%
Center for American Progress$60,00020%
Headwaters Economics Inc$40,00021%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget La Salle Adams Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEarthjustice: $550,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $450,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWestern Organization of Resource Councils: $380,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $355,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetResources Legacy Fund: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMontana Wilderness Association: $110,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPublic Land Solutions: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeadwaters Economics Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The William & Flora H…
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to La Salle Adams Fund?

Find your warmest path to La Salle Adams Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About La Salle Adams Fund

How much does La Salle Adams Fund give?
La Salle Adams Fund reported 11 grants totaling $1,335,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does La Salle Adams Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (93%), Environment (6%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are La Salle Adams Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy ($1.0M), Earthjustice ($550k), The Wilderness Society ($450k).
Does La Salle Adams Fund 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 La Salle Adams Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is La Salle Adams Fund based?
La Salle Adams Fund is based in NY.

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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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