Adventist Development & Relief Agency
Silver Spring, MD · EIN 52-1314847. Reported 23 grants totalling $3,518,652 to 22 organizations across tax years 2020-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Adventist Development & Relief Agency, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,478 and $401,076; the smallest was $6,316 and the largest $519,119. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
16 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $3,022,969 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Alvarado, TX | $519,119 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Seventh Day Adventists | Manhasset, NY | $475,849 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chesapeake Conference of Sda | Columbia, MD | $442,982 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southern California Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Glendale, CA | $435,213 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $416,472 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alaska Conference of Sda | Anchorage, AK | $401,076 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Adventist Community Services North America Inc | Columbia, MD | $164,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists | Peachtree Cor, GA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Sierra University | Riverside, CA | $139,776 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Acs Hawaiian Conference | Lahaina, HI | $58,065 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Andrews University | Berrien Sprgs, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Helena Hospital Foundation | Saint Helena, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mid-America Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist | Lincoln, NE | $46,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $45,470 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North American Division of Seventh- Day Adventists | Columbia, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Adra - Puerto Rico | Mayaguez, PR | $24,722 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Adventist Health System-West | Roseville, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Conference of Sda | Lawrence Township, NJ | $17,478 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Central Conference of Sda | Nashville, TN | $16,978 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Acs Allegheny East Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist | Douglassville, PA | $6,970 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Office of T | Wdm, IA | $6,316 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Michigan Conference | Lansing, MI | $6,316 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
1 of 22 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Texas Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist
MEDICAL SUPPLIES DONATION IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. THIS INCLUDE, GOWNS, FACEMASKS, EXAM GLOVES, SPECULUMS, BLOOD PRESSURE CUFFS, BANDAGES AND MANY OTHER MEDICAL ITEMS. - Greater New York Conference of Sda
MEDICAL SUPPLIES DONATION IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC DURING THE PEAK OF COVID-19 SEVERE PPE SHORTAGES. THIS INCLUDE, GOWNS, FACEMASKS, EXAM GLOVES, SPECULUMS, BLOOD PRESSURE CUFFS, BANDAGES AND MANY OTHER MEDICAL ITEMS. - Loma Linda University
DISPOSABLE FACEMASKS DONATION FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VACCINE HUBS FOR COVID-19. - Southern Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventist
SUPPORT THE MOST VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY HURRICANE HELENE VIA MICRO-GRANTS TO CHURCHES AND SMALL GROUPS RESPONDING TO THE DISASTER. - Adventist Community Services North America Inc
TO IMPLEMENT FOOD PANTRIES IN THE UNITED STATES, AND TO SUPPORT ADVENTIST MEDICAL FACILITIES, NURSING HOMES,AND OTHER HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS AS THEY RESPOND TO COVID-19 - Acs Hawaiian Conference
HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE LAHAINA, HAWAII FIRES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 6 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | $2,598,489 | $47,735 |
| 2021 | 2 | $556,248 | $278,124 |
| 2023 | 2 | $78,065 | $39,032 |
| 2024 | 2 | $164,100 | $82,050 |
| 2025 | 3 | $121,750 | $46,750 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
31% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Adventist Development & Relief Agency's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD, 20904.
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