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The Adames 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.

$443k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$883kPhilanthropy$325kYouth Development$308kInternational$123kHuman Services$100kEducation$51kCommunity Improvement$50kReligion$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$12,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC$250,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT$50,000
PUERTO RICO GOLF ASSOCIATION$12,600
FRIENDS OF IDF$10,008
JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($1.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($223k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 6%WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $250k → 11%TOP 10 FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%BETH ISRAEL WATERVILLE: $10k → 12%PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 6%WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $250k → 11%WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $250k → 11%PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE: $12k → 11%PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $10k → 11%PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $10k → 11%PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($223k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Puerto Rico$223k · 8 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • WP
    WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +75%
  • TR
    THE RAIN AND ROSE CHARITABLE FUND LLC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +61% · 43% of their budget
  • TJ
    THE JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • PR
    Puerto Rico Youth Development Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue -48% · 30% of their budget
  • FT
    FIRST TEE PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

1
Puerto Rico Lit Inc
Philanthropy
2
Para Ti Global
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3
Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund

To protect and enhance the natural resources of puerto rico.

Environment
4
Proyecto Florecer Corporation
—
5
Plantados Until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba Inc
—
6
Foundation for Argentinean Development
Philanthropy
7
Fundacin Luis Muoz Marin Inc

Helping to build puerto rico's future by preserving both the social and natural history and disseminating the values, philosophy and ideas of luis muoz marn and promoting them in identifying and solving the island's most urgent problems.

—
8
Puerto Rico Salud Inc

Medical asst to under develop areas

Health
9
Puerto Rico Broadcasting Corp

Provide wholesome entertainment and education to the residents of puerto rico through the government radio and television facilities.

—
10
Generation First Degree Pico Rivera
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11
Foundation for Puerto Rico Inc

The main objective of the organization is to promote strategic philanthropy as catalyst to accelerate the economic, social, and sustainable development in puerto rico by commissioning highly focused research, offering expert counsel and…

Community Improvement
12
University of Puerto Rico Foundation Inc

The University of Puerto Rico Foundation is a non-partisan non-profit organization thatfacilitates philanthrophic contributions and support to benefit the University of Puerto Ricosystems campuses students and faculty.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Platform for Social Impact Inc; the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $750,000 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICO: $150,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICOFIRST TEE PUERTO RICO: $100,000 · OtherFIRST TEE PUERTO RICOBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $122,100 · Other+9 moreTHE RAIN AND ROSE CHARITABLE FUND LLC: $300,000 · InternationalTHE RAIN AND ROSE CHARIT…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $118,008 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DE…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Recreation & SportsPuerto Rico Youth Development Foundation: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFILANTROPIA PUERTO RICO INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFUNDACION CORTES INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $11,000 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,172,100International$423,008Recreation & Sports$120,000Youth Development$105,000Community Improvement$50,000Philanthropy$30,000Environment$25,000Education$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $750,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE RAIN AND ROSE CHARITABLE FUND LLC: $300,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $118,008 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPuerto Rico Youth Development Foundation: $105,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFILANTROPIA PUERTO RICO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JANE STERN DORADO COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFUNDACION CORTES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARAS OF THE AMERICAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Pga Tour IncPeter Alfond Foundati…Flamboyan Foundation …Hispanic Federation I…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pga Tour IncFL15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pga Tour Inc · Peter Alfond Foundation · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 24 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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