Adams Fund
EIN 95-6015986 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 292 grants · $5.4m
Who it funds most
31 of its 66 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Adams Fund's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202403199349105550
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202611349349104346 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202511349349103356 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202403199349105550 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202332999349100728 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202233189349106553 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202113129349101411 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201922889349100812 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201921069349100307 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Adams Fund made 441 grants across 2017–2025, totalling $7.3m as filed.
- Grants
- 441
- Total, as filed
- $7.3m
- Years
- 2017–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| HOAG HOSPITAL | 7 | $510.0k |
| KILLEBREW-THOMPSON MEMORIAL FUND | 8 | $505.0k |
| CITY OF HOPE | 7 | $349.0k |
| HOLLENBECK HOME | 5 | $309.3k |
| HAVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL | 3 | $290.0k |
| MEANING FOUNDATION | 3 | $260.0k |
| CALIFORNIA ART CLUB | 8 | $251.2k |
| WORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY | 8 | $230.0k |
| ADAMS COWAN FOUNDATION | 6 | $224.5k |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | 6 | $210.0k |
| POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL | 5 | $188.0k |
| HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL | 5 | $154.0k |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | 7 | $149.8k |
| JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | 5 | $145.0k |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE PARISH | 4 | $135.9k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 65 | $408.8k |
| 2018 | 62 | $683.6k |
| 2020 | 64 | $981.1k |
| 2021 | 57 | $1.1m |
| 2022 | 50 | $857.0k |
| 2023 | 43 | $1.1m |
| 2024 | 43 | $939.6k |
| 2025 | 57 | $1.3m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-956015986. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified