FundersTennessee

Adams Family Foundation II

Murfreesboro, TN · EIN 62-1515108. Reported 90 grants totalling $1,369,180 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,369,180granted, 2021-2024
45organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$17.0Massets, latest filing

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 Family Foundation II did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $101,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Special KidsMurfreesboro, TN$200,000332024
World Outreach ChurchMurfreesboro, TN$170,000332023
St Thomas FoundationMurfreesboro, TN$101,000112021
North Blvd Church of ChMurfreesboro, TN$75,455112021
Archies PromiseMurfreesboro, TN$68,000442024
Heifer InternationalLittle Rock, AR$55,000442024
Journey HomeMurfreesboro, TN$55,000332024
Middle Tn Christian SchMurfreesboro, TN$50,000112021
Boys and Girls ClubMurfreesboro, TN$47,500442024
Barnabas VisionMurfreesboro, TN$45,475442024
American Red CrossNashville, TN$40,000442024
Greenhouse MinistriesMurfreesboro, TN$35,000222022
Marys MealsBloomfield, NJ$35,000222023
Smile TrainWashington, DC$35,000332024
Blue MonarchMonteagle, TN$30,000332024
Wounded WarriorJacksonville, FL$30,000332023
Domestic ViolenceMurfreesboro, TN$25,000332024
Habitat HumanityMurfreesboro, TN$25,000112021
Alzheimers AssocMurfreesboro, TN$24,000332024
Children Discovery CtrMurfreesboro, TN$20,000222023
Friends of Maiti NapalBoston, MA$20,000222024
St Marks United Meth ChMurfreesboro, TN$18,000332023
Drs Collaborating HelpCambridge, MA$15,000112023
Feed America FirstMurfreesboro, TN$15,000332024
Childrens Discov HouseMurfreesboro, TN$10,000112024
Friends of NapalBoston, MA$10,000112022
Habitat for HumanityMurfreesboro, TN$10,000222024
Liberty StationMurfreesboro, TN$10,000112024
Mid Tenn State UniversiMurfreesboro, TN$10,000112023
Mid Tn State UniversityMurfreesboro, TN$10,000112022
Middle Tn State UnivMurfreesboro, TN$10,000112021
PorticoMurfreesboro, TN$10,000222022
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$10,000112022
Wounded WarriorsJacksonville, FL$10,000112024
AgapeNashville, TN$8,000442024
Free for LifeFranklin, TN$5,000112022
Hopegivers InternationaColumbus, GA$5,000112024
Beesley FoundationMurfreesboro, TN$4,000222023
Beesley AnimalMurfreesboro, TN$3,250112024
St Marks Methodist ChMurfreesboro, TN$3,000112024
Main Street of MboroMurfreesboro, TN$2,000112021
Monterey Fly Club AuxciSalinas, CA$2,000112021
Ascension FoundationMurfreesboro, TN$1,000112024
Bedford Co ArtsShelbyville, TN$1,000112024
Sixteen HandsOna, FL$500112021

23 of 45 (51%) 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 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Employment
3 grants
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$560,930$15,475
202222$248,000$10,000
202322$262,000$10,000
202423$298,250$10,000

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. 83% of this one's giving went to organizations in Tennessee. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Tennessee
$1.1M
Arkansas
$55K
Massachusetts
$45K
Florida
$40K
District of Columbia
$35K
New Jersey
$35K
North Carolina
$10K
Georgia
$5K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Tennessee.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Family Foundation II's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 801 Mooreland Lane, Murfreesboro, TN, 37128. 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.

EIN 62-1515108 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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