· Private foundation
The Donald and Donna Adam Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The George & Barbara Bush Foundation | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| The Boys & Girls Club of the Brazos Valley | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $50,000 |
| Scotty's House | $45,000 |
| AGGIELAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,300 |
| Voices for Children | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,400 |
| Queen of Peace Catholic Church | $25,000 |
| BRAZOS CHURCH PANTRY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,900 |
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 (FY18–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +33%
- AHAggieland Humane Society9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +80% · 45% of their budget
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CSCOLLEGE STATION INDEPENDENT SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- BIBRYAN INDPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- SHSaratoga Hospital Foundationone grant, 2024 · $500k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is KIDZ1STFUND Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 116 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Aggieland Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Unlimited Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS CHURCH PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC ↗
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: Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · The John & Sally Godfrey Family Foundation · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · St Joseph Regional Health Center · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation
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 Donald and Donna Adam Family 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.
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