· Private foundation
The Hop & Mae Adams 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $524k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Adams Northgate Inc | $225,927 |
| Adams Hub Inc | $160,927 |
| Greenhouse Project | $75,584 |
| Xquisite LLC | $61,650 |
| St Teresa of Avila Catholic School | $25,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada | $15,000 |
| Carson City Chamber of Commerce | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 64% of The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in ID; by stated purpose, 3%.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAdams Northgate Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $403k · revenue ×21 · 85% of their budget
- TGTHE GREENHOUSE PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $243k · revenue +27%
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +387%
Funded once
- SOState of Nevada Department of Educationone grant, 2023 · $14k
- CCCarson City Culture & Tourism Authority DBA Visit Carson Cityone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CCCARSON CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -21%
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.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864
Economic Development
Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 Adams Hub Inc ↗
- Who funds Adams Northgate Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE EB-5 REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds XQUISITE ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada ↗
- Who funds CARSON CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARSON CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Hop & Mae Adams’ filings →