New York · Nonprofit
ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC
ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,905,570 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,618,255). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $376k
What Adams Street Foundation Inc does
Mission
The adams street foundation is the in-house, non-profit partner to the urban assembly school for law & justice,responsible for integrating pre-college enrichment and preparation for college and career into the school's curriculum
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Adams Street Foundation, in partnership with the Urban Assembly School for Law &Justice (SLJ), serves over 425 students, the majority of whom live near or below thepoverty line and will be the first in their family to go to college. SLJ is anunscreened, law-themed high school. Activities include SAT prep, college tours,financial aid counseling, essay feedback, career development opportunities withseasoned professionals, coaching students through the early admissions process, after school clubs, mentoring, and mock trial programs.* 2024 High School Graduation Rate - 90% (vs. a comparative city-wide graduation ratefor 2024 of 86%).* In 2024, 100% of our seniors were accepted to college or have a post-high schoolplan.
$496,971 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $496,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $852k to $388k (−54%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $251k → $208k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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
ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 78% · 2021 61% · 2022 91% · 2023 84% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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
ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC?
- ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,905,570 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,618,255). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,905,570 in grants to ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,618,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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