How much does The Adorjan Family Foundation give?

The Adorjan Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $78,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Adorjan Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (27%), Environment (24%), Education (15%).

Who are The Adorjan Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rosati-Kain Academy ($38k), Gratitude House Inc ($25k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($12k).

Does The Adorjan Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Adorjan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Adorjan Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.

Where is The Adorjan Family Foundation based?

The Adorjan Family Foundation is based in MO.

The Adorjan Family Foundation

The Adorjan Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Adorjan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$79k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$69kEnvironment$62kEducation$39kHealth$30kArts & Culture$23kRecreation & Sports$11kInternational$7kHuman Services$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $19k
$10k–50k2 grants · $60k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$136k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROSATI-KAIN ACADEMY	$35,000
GRATITUDE HOUSE	$25,000
GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY	$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MO	$5,000
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS	$2,500
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$1,000
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS	$1,000
SHOW ME INSTITUTE	$1,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER	$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI	$500
ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM	$500
NINE PBS	$500
ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION	$500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$215k · 81 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$215k

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+74%

Still filing today

56%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther

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

MB
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%
FP
Forest Park Forever Inc
6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +213%
SR
Stray Rescue of St Louis
5× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +60%

Funded once

BA
BARC ANIMAL CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
SM
ST MARY VICTORIES CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals

Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals

Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture

Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals

The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports

Sacramento Zoological Society

The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.

Animals

Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Gratitude House Inc. 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

60 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. 60 of the 117 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

51/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$145,020Education$38,750Health$25,900Environment$20,050Animals$14,825International$7,250Arts & Culture$6,775

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

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO41.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Washington University

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home