How much does Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation give?

Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,627,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (21%), Recreation & Sports (17%).

Who are Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ($4.2M), The National World War II Museum Inc ($1.3M), Arizona Science Center ($800k).

Does Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Richard C Adkerson Family 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 Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baptist Community Ministries, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.

Where is Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation based?

Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation is based in LA.

Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation

Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.4MScience & Tech$800kPublic Benefit$465kEnvironment$135kInternational$97kPhilanthropy$41kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $22k
$10k–50k12 grants · $210k
$50k–250k6 grants · $795k
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$600,000
Individual grant recipient	$200,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$200,000
YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION	$150,000
THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM	$100,000
THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM	$75,000
CITY OF STARKVILLE CORNERSTONE SPORTS COMPLEX	$70,000
KOSCIUSKO FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION	$30,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART	$25,000
HOWLERS RIDGE	$25,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$25,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH	$15,000
THE 18TH WARD SPORTS CLUB	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $4.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.7M · 29 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.7M

$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

-13%

Still filing today

66%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MS
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +143%
TN
THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +52%
AS
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER
4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +71%

Funded once

SJ
ST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $25k
VO
VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -27%
WV
WESTERN VISIONS NATIONAL MUSEUM
one grant, 2024 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International

Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

World Monuments Fund Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Washington Monthly Institute

Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

22/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$4,201,000Other$2,843,574Arts & Culture$2,677,000International$96,600Environment$85,000Animals$67,500Recreation & Sports$57,500

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.

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.

Baptist Community MinistriesLA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard C Adkerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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