How much did William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of WILLIAM L & VICTORINE Q ADAMS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $33k
$10k–50k15 grants · $410k

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC	$48,000
SAINT FRANCES ACADEMY	$45,500
JOHN HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING	$45,000
KIPP BALTIMORE INC	$36,000
BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST	$35,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$34,000
FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC	$27,000
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY	$25,000
BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN	$25,000
GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC	$18,000
BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION	$18,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE INC	$17,000
THREAD INC	$16,000
THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND	$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION (GREATER MARYLAND CHAPTER)	$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.7M · 50 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

Still filing today

62%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

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GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +88%
AE
ARTS EVERY DAY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +294%
MS
MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +57%

Funded once

TF
TSU FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $29k
BC
BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -6%
AB
ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC
one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment

Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Inc

Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…

Education

University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…

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University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Health

Blackbird Laboratories Inc

Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…

Health

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

Baltimore Medical System Inc

Baltimore medical system is deeply committed to improving the health wellness and the quality of life in the communities we serve by providing safe, high quality, accessible and affordable health care.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Keys Development 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4/78

the rest of the field

14%

1,839/13,376

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 110 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/66

Grantees still filing

40/66

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,750,302Education$942,190Philanthropy$159,500Arts & Culture$133,400Youth Development$85,500Environment$85,000Health$71,850

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD57.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc

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 William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines