California · Nonprofit
ADAMA FOUNDATION
ADAMA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,500 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Adama Foundation does
Mission
To relieve the poor, distressed, and underprivileged
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Refugee Relief Bakery Project (Oruchinga Refugee Camp, Uganda): operation of an on-site, commercial-scale bakery that trains/employs 30+ refugees to produce and distribute bread at no charge to 50-400 other refugees per day. Total number individual served by project in 2024 (estimated): 46,000
$51,089 spent63% of program spendingRefugee Relief Bakery Improvement Project: addition of buildings, space and equipment to improve the efficiency and amount of bread produced/distributed at no charge to 50-400 refugees per day (an estimated 6000 additional refugees served in 2024)
$25,219 spent31% of program spendingRefugee Relief Housing Project (Oruchinga Refugee Camp, Uganda): repair and/or construction of permanent housing structures for refugee families consisting of 4 or more members (estimated 18 refugees served in 2024)
$2,441 spent3% of program spendingRefugee Relief Baker/Family Meal Program: provision of daily meal for the 30+ refugees employed by the bakery and their families (estimated 52 refugees served each day in 2024)
$1,952 spent2% of program spendingRefugee Relief Friday Giving Program (Oruchinga Refugee Camp, Uganda): weekly distribution of basic meal ingredients at no charge to refugee families and orphan groups (estimated 60+ refugees served in 2024)
$569 spent1% of program spendingUmoja Drummers Performance Support Program (Oruchinga Refugee Camp, Uganda): booking and provision of transportation for performances by mixed traditional tribal drummers/dancers during bread distribution and other public gatherings (estimated 10,000 refugees attended and/or participated in these performances in 2024)
$81 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,351.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $69k to $82k (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ADAMA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ayelet Berman Cohen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $20k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADAMA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADAMA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADAMA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
72% of ADAMA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $37k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADAMA FOUNDATION's revenue fell 40% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ADAMA FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADAMA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADAMA FOUNDATION?
- ADAMA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,500 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADAMA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $131,500 in grants to ADAMA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMA FOUNDATION?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing