· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 116 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donald and Donna Adam Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald and Donna Adam Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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