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The Adamma Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$172k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$250kHousing & Shelter$190kYouth Development$149kCivil Rights$99kEducation$94kHealth$62kHuman Services$50kPublic Benefit$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $167k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LAWYERS INC$34,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER PROJECT PROTOCOL$30,000
THE SIDEWALK PROJECT$28,000
FORWARD PROGRESS INC$25,000
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC$20,000
JUST DOIN' IT OVER$15,000
PELVIC SANCTUARY$15,000
WATER DROP LA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IN THE CITY: $10k → 14%THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $28k → 14%THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $20k → 14%SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC: $20k → 14%THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $10k → 14%WATER DROP LA: $5k → 14%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$811k · 12 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$811k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+79%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CL
    Community Lawyers Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $121k · revenue +215%
  • HU
    HOMIES UNIDOS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $99k · revenue +53%
  • SC
    Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research
    7× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +297%

Funded once

  • LC
    LA COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • EP
    ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -65%
  • IT
    In The City Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
Peace and Justice Law Center

To advance community safety and constitutional rights, including the causes of equal protection under the law and the advancement of First Amendment rights, exclusively for charitable and educational purposes in accordance with Section…

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
4
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
5
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
6
Champions in Service San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles

Provide counseling, gang prevention and intervention services, case management, athletic activities, job readiness training and development and other services to disadvantaged youth in the san fernando valley and greater los angeles area.

Crime & Legal
7
Al Otro Lado

Al otro lado (aol) provides innovative cross-border legal services to refugees, deportees, and other migrantsin tijuana, mexico and throughout throughout the u.s., with a focus on southern california. aol's mission is to uplift immigrant…

Human Services
8
Human Migration Institute Inc

Glocally Connected is a nonprofit organization that promotes community building to support refugee populations.

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9
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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10
Community Justice Center

Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.

Crime & Legal
11
Western Avenue Community Action Inc

Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.

Community Improvement
12
The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

The LCCL seeks to advance resource equity and the well-being of community through its mission to find, fund, form, and feature nonprofits in marginalized communities meeting the needs of individuals and families. As a community-facing…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homies Unidos Inc; the most unlike its peers is Echo Park Film Center. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Lawyers Inc: $120,900 · Crime & LegalCommunity Lawyers IncForward Progress Inc: $111,900 · Crime & LegalForward Progress IncHOMIES UNIDOS INC: $98,900 · Crime & LegalHOMIES UNIDOS INCSUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER: $98,900 · OtherSUNRISE OUTREACH CENTERJOURNEY OUT: $68,900 · OtherJOURNEY OUTPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC: $40,000 · OtherPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRIS…YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER PROJECT PROTOCOL: $30,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER PROJE…LA COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT: $21,900 · OtherLA COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECTPELVIC SANCTUARY: $15,000 · OtherJUST DO IT OVER: $15,000 · OtherSouthern California Library for Social Studies & Research: $93,900 · EducationSouthern Californ…COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SUPPORT…THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $58,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIDEWAL…SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN FERNAND…In The City Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesIn The City…WATER DROP: $5,000 · Human ServicesWATER DROPOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Restorative Justice Works: $20,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY BRIDGE HOUSING CORP: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterECHO PARK FILM CENTER: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCOMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO CORP: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Crime & Legal$331,700Other$289,700Education$143,900Human Services$93,000Philanthropy$30,000Health$30,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Arts & Culture$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Lawyers Inc: $120,900 over 7y, 24% of budgetForward Progress Inc: $111,900 over 7y, 43% of budgetHOMIES UNIDOS INC: $98,900 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSouthern California Library for Social Studies & Research: $93,900 over 7y, 22% of budgetJOURNEY OUT: $68,900 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $58,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $50,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BRIDGE HOUSING CORP: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Restorative Justice Works: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWATER DROP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationLocal Initiatives Sup…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA19.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Adamma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adamma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Adamma Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Adamma Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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