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The Adr Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$618k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$944kReligion$650kHuman Services$470kHousing & Shelter$298kPhilanthropy$100k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $493k
$45,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$922k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$133,000
MERCY SHIPS$100,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD$100,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$60,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$50,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$50,000
TEXAS BAPTIST MEN$45,000
SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME$40,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION$10,000
PRECEPT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL$10,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION$10,000
GLOBAL GRACE FELLOWSHIP$5,000
GOSPEL FOR ASIA$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION: $10k → 8%MERCY SHIPS: $120k → 12%GOSPEL FOR ASIA: $10k → 14%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $45k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $60k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 9%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $35k → 9%INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION: $10k → 8%MERCY SHIPS: $100k → 12%GOSPEL FOR ASIA: $10k → 14%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $30k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 9%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $30k → 9%MERCY SHIPS: $100k → 12%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $25k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $40k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $45k → 9%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $30k → 9%MERCY SHIPS: $100k → 12%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $20k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $40k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 9%MERCY SHIPS: $54k → 12%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $20k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 9%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD: $100k → 8%MERCY SHIPS: $50k → 12%TEXAS BAPTIST MEN: $15k → 14%SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 29%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 9%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD: $100k → 8%MERCY SHIPS: $30k → 12%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $133k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $60k → 9%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD: $65k → 8%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $30k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $40k → 9%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD: $50k → 8%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $20k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $40k → 9%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $20k → 8%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $20k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $40k → 9%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $15k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $30k → 9%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $30k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Adr Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Adr Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
0

Total granted

$2.4M
$0

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHousing & 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

  • Mercy Ships International
    6× · 2020–2025 · $554k · revenue +126%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    6× · 2020–2025 · $295k · revenue +16%
  • CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +70%

Funded once

    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
    05the grantee network

    6 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. 6 of the 14 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/6
    Grantees still filing
    5/6
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELD: $315,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE FIELDFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $240,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYSOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME: $230,000 · OtherSOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOMEUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $228,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSIONTEXAS BAPTIST MEN INC: $155,000 · OtherTEXAS BAPTIST MEN INCINTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: $95,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTI…+2 more: $60,000 · OtherMercy Ships International: $554,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $295,000 · InternationalCompassion International IncorporatedPrecept: $70,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC: $50,000 · ReligionFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $70,000 · Housing & Shelter
    Other$1,323,000International$849,000Religion$120,000Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$70,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Ships International: $554,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrecept: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% 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.

    • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
    • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
    • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
    • Who funds Precept ↗
    • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
    • Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC ↗

    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 FundFL13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Adr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      1get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
      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 14 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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