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Richard C Adkerson Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| TGEN FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CITY OF STARKVILLE CORNERSTONE SPORTS COMPLEX | $70,000 |
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $62,500 |
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| KOSCIUSKO FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| WESTERN VISIONS NATIONAL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WATER MISSION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- MSMississippi State University Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +143%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +52%
- ASARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- VOVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -27%
- SJST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
University of Arizona Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
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.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is The Virginia Rosanne Amato 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 62 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 Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds 18TH WARD ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds TUPELO LEE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds COPS 8 INC ↗
- Who funds VIEUX CARRE COMMISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION 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: Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · The Helis Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson 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 Richard C Adkerson Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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