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The Adams Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$172kYouth Development$4kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$204k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $36k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY: $2k → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $600 → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CENTRE COLLEGE: $2k → 15%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $36k → 7%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CENTRE COLLEGE: $500 → 15%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $350 → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CENTRE COLLEGE: $500 → 15%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $250 → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $1k → 16%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $12k → 7%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 14%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $11k → 7%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 14%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $11k → 7%ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%FIDDLERS GROVE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 5 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$176k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+123%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • CU
    CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +116%
  • CC
    CENTRE COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • FG
    Fiddlers Grove Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +123%
  • AJ
    ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $700 · revenue -10%
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
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
2
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
3
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
4
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
Converse University

Converse university is a liberal arts college which offers co-ed undergraduate and graduate degrees. converse advances a culture of belonging and collaboration that ignites creativity, innovation, and transformation.

Education
10
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
11
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $165,640 · OtherCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITYMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $4,000 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,700 · Youth DevelopmentVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,000 · HealthFiddlers Grove Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $700 · Arts & Culture
Other$165,640Education$6,500Youth Development$3,700Health$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000Arts & Culture$700

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 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
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.

Raymond James Charita…The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 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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