· Private foundation
The Adams 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE TO RECOVERY | $19,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,061 |
| CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY | $6,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME | $2,735 |
| GREEN SHOE FOUNDATION | $475 |
| OKLAHOMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $450 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HIHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue ×13
- OBOKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +1%
- EPE3 Partners Ministry2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +109%
- MAMERCER ADAMS FUNERAL SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The OSSAA will serve member schools by providing leadership in the development, supervision, and conduct of co-curricular activities, which enrich the educational experiences of high school students. It will provide for equitable…
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Christian Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is WATER4 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds P A L Ministries ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JIM THORPE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Edify Leaders ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WATER4 INC ↗
- Who funds Green Shoe Foundation ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Adams Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.