· Private foundation
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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $11,000 |
| STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSN | $10,000 |
| GOULD FARM | $10,000 |
| FCNL EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| ACLU | $10,000 |
| UNHCR | $10,000 |
| OPB | $10,000 |
| POPULATION CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| ART OF NATURE CONSORTIUM | $8,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $6,000 |
| SPLC | $5,000 |
| EPIC | $5,000 |
| MANCHESTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
Feeding America3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +40%
FCNL EDUCATION FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +102%- MCMANCHESTER CHURCH OF BRETHRENone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
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…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 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 THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parks & Paula Sheller Adams Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Manchester Early Learning Center: 17% of income from government
How this is measured
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