· Private foundation
William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $410k
| 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 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION (GREATER MARYLAND CHAPTER) | $10,000 |
| THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND | $10,000 |
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 (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 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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GHGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +88%
- AEARTS EVERY DAY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +294%
- MSMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TFTSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $29k
- BCBELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -6%
- ABASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -90%
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 110 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 GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY CORPORATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS Development Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY TANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc: 96% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc: 21% of income from government
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc: 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc: 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
- Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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