Virginia · Private foundation
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.
- $103k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations McAdams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $99k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $112k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $75k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $50k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $33k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $32k | 92% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Deering Estate Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Orange County Rape Crisis Center | $11,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Pollinator Partnership | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Freedom Institute Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 4% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $8,850 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McAdams Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About McAdams Foundation
- How much does McAdams Foundation give?
- McAdams Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $102,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does McAdams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (9%).
- Who are McAdams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($65k), Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill Inc ($28k), The Deering Estate Foundation Inc ($15k).
- Does McAdams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McAdams 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 McAdams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibis Charities Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is McAdams Foundation based?
- McAdams Foundation is based in VA.
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