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McAdams 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH | $8,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM & CHAPEL HILL | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH FOR CHRIST INC | $4,000 |
| PALM BEACH AREA TENNIS PATRONS | $3,000 |
| PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE | $3,000 |
| HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,900 |
| WUNC RADIO (UNC AT CHAPEL HILL) | $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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of McAdams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 20 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +6%
TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +82%- TDTHE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2023 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +107%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Research Center and the most unlike its peers is James E Hughes Jr Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 86 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pollinator Partnership ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security 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: Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Admirals Cove Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 McAdams 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
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.