California · Private foundation
The Adamma Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $172k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Adamma Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $172k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $120k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $105k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $153k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Lawyers Inc | $120,900 | 7 | 24% |
| Forward Progress Inc | $111,900 | 7 | 43% |
| Homies Unidos Inc | $98,900 | 6 | 2% |
| Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research | $93,900 | 7 | 22% |
| Journey Out | $68,900 | 4 | 2% |
| The Sidewalk Project | $58,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Support Services Organization | $50,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Lawyers Inc | $120,900 | 7 | 24% |
| Forward Progress Inc | $111,900 | 7 | 43% |
| Homies Unidos Inc | $98,900 | 6 | 2% |
| Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research | $93,900 | 7 | 22% |
| Journey Out | $68,900 | 4 | 2% |
| The Sidewalk Project | $58,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Support Services Organization | $50,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Bridge Housing Corp | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Center for Restorative Justice Works | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pelvic Sanctuary | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Just Do It Over | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Echo Park Film Center | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| In The City Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A New Way of Life Reentry Project | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Comunidades Indigenas En Liderazgo Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Water Drop | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Adamma Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Adamma Foundation
- How much does The Adamma Foundation give?
- The Adamma Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $172,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Adamma Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (26%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are The Adamma Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Lawyers Inc ($121k), Forward Progress Inc ($112k), Homies Unidos Inc ($99k).
- Does The Adamma Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Adamma Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Adamma Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation.
- Where is The Adamma Foundation based?
- The Adamma Foundation is based in CA.
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