Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn
Saint Louis, MO · EIN 65-6003785. Reported 73 grants totalling $1,975,000 to 62 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $41,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circuit Playhouse Inc | Memphis, TN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | New York City, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Preservation League of New York | Albany, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | Boston, MA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hudson Review Inc | New York, NY | $71,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New World Symphony Inc | Miami Beach, FL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memphis Symphony Orchestra Inc | Memphis, TN | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Opera Lafayette | Washington, DC | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Crescendo Inc | Lakeville, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida International University Inc | Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc | Cooperstown, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Library of American Landscape History in | Amherst, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Historical Society | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Opera America Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pierpont Morgan Library | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Ackland Art Museum | Chapel Hill, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Jewish Museum | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indie Memphis | Memphis, TN | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bogliasco Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $44,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dixon Gallery & Gardens | Memphis, TN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dixon Gallery and Gardens | Memphis, TN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beth Morrison Projects Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Overton Park Shell Inc | Memphis, TN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Symphony Orchestra Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Americas Society | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crosstown High School | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Miami Youth Symphony | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of Moder Art | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New York Philharmonic | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the New York Society Library | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Paris Review Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Federation of Arts Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaufman Music Center | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Ballet Ensemble | Memphis, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Paris Review | Big Sandy, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Roxy Theatre Group | Miami, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iris Orchestra | Germantown, TN | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Composers Orchestra Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida International University Foundation | Miami, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Prospect Park Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Young Artists Writers Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chamber Music Society of Lincoln | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Cultural Review Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Levitt Pavillion Memphis | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Miami | North Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mass Moca | North Adams, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art | North Adams, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mindmelody Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Music Before 1800 Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prep for Prep | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The New York Society Library | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Theatre Memphis | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jericho School for Children With Autism | Jacksonville, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Roane County High School Band Boosters | Kingston, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 62 (18%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 0%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Preservation League of New York
EXCELLENCE IN PRESERVATION - Opera Lafayette
LAFAYETTE COSTUME 2016/2017 - Friends of Levitt Pavillion Memphis
SUSTAIN FIFTY FREE CONCERTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 60 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $469,500 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 13 | $455,000 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $462,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $588,500 | $22,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 505 Mac H0006-092, Saint Louis, MO, 63166. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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