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The Morgan Adams Foundation

To fund critically needed pediatric oncology research

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.4MHuman Services$44kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,170,841, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,270,808 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,967 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$43,822
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,007,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$43,822
THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE INC$38,519
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$6,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $75k → 8%THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE INC: $39k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $50k → 16%ESSEN BIOSCIENCE: $152k → 14%DDFRA CO TOUGH 2GETHER FOUNDATION: $80k → 20%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%ALL OTHER GRANTS: $44k → 12%JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION DBA RILEY'S CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%DOVENMUEHLE MTGE INC SERVICER FOR COLORADO HOUSING & FINANCE AUTHORITY: $10k → 8%ANN AND ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $44k → 14%DDFRA: $48k → 20%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $815k → 10%RILEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $20k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $805k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $798k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $608k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $530k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $503k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $450k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
PA
CA
CO
KS
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 6 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$6.0M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+31%

Still filing today

33%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +86%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON
    3× · 2018–2020 · $120k

Funded once

  • EB
    ESSEN BIOSCIENCE
    one grant, 2017 · $152k
  • TF
    TOUGH2GETHER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
  • AW
    ARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue -37%
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.

1
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
5
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation

Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…

Health
9
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
10
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
11
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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12
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health; the most unlike its peers is Cops Fighting Cancer. 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

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 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Colorado: $5,515,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado+7 more: $283,019 · HealthESSEN BIOSCIENCE: $151,926 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $94,062 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $43,822 · OtherRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherDOVENMUEHLE MTGE INC SERVICER FOR COLORADO HOUSING & FINANCE AUTHORITY: $19,636 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Education+1 more: $6,500 · Education
Health$5,798,519Other$459,446Education$231,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $5,515,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOUGH2GETHER FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $38,519 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS FIGHTING CANCER: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Morgan Adams Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Morgan 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.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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