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The Adams 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.

$27k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$204k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Adams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & Culture
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$27k50%
FY20232$26k0%
FY20221$36k0%
FY20213$38k33%
FY20205$13k20%
FY20194$13k25%
FY20184$14k25%
FY20173$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$172kYouth Development$4kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Adams Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCumberland University: $165,640 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMartin Methodist Foundation (Formerly Martin Methodist College): $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentre College: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Rutherford Cty: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFiddlers Grove Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAndrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

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About The Adams Family Foundation

How much does The Adams Family Foundation give?
The Adams Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $27,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Adams Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (96%), Youth Development (2%), Health (1%).
Who are The Adams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cumberland University ($166k), Martin Methodist Foundation (Formerly Martin Methodist College) ($4k), Centre College ($3k).
Does The Adams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Adams 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 The Adams Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Adams Family Foundation based?
The Adams Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 8 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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