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Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc

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.

$133k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$127k84%
FY20233$9k67%
FY20224$6k25%
FY20214$16k0%
FY20208$23k88%
FY20191$500100%
FY20181$200100%
FY20171$3kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$45kFood & Nutrition$25kPublic Benefit$20kCivil Rights$18kInternational$16kHealth$10kSocial Science$10kHuman Services$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $19,570 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFcnl Education Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPopulation Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe William J Gould Associates Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $5,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManchester Early Learning Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Public Integrity: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Crest Trail Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc 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 Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc

How much does Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc give?
Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $133,490 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Public Benefit (10%).
Who are Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Student Conservation Association Inc ($20k), Feeding America ($20k), Fcnl Education Fund ($15k).
Does Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc 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 Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc based?
Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc is based in OR.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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