Judith and Jean Pape Adams Foundation

OVERVIEW: The Judith and Jean Pape Adams Foundation supports arts and culture, social services, education and health in Oklahoma.

FUNDING AREAS: Arts and culture, social services, education, health, ALS disease research

IP TAKE: This funder has been in the process of spending down its assets but is still worth contacting for organizations in the Tulsa area.

PROFILE: Established in 2003, the Judith and Jean Pape Adams Foundation is a family foundation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Adams was the daughter of a Selby Oil & Gas Company executive who passed away in 2003. She was a pianist, writer, reader, art collector and had a daughter who died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The funds local efforts to enrich the lives of people living in Tulsa, Oklahoma and for national ALS disease research.

The Judith and Jean Pape Adams Foundation has stopped accepting unsolicited grant requests and decided to spend down its assets. Beginning in 2018, it began to only make foundation-initiated grants to selected institutions. Over the years, about two-thirds of the foundation’s grants have gone towards arts and culture, social services, education and health efforts in the Tulsa area to improve the local quality of life here. The remaining grants have gone to national organizations that are working on treatments and cures for ALS.

Grants range between about $5,000 and $50,000. The funder has recently given between $300,000 and $800,000 annually. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Grantmaking focuses on Tulsa Oklahoma and nationally for disease research. Past local grantees include the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa, Arts Alliance Tulsa and Hospice of Green County.

This foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits because it is in its spend-down phase. The funder asks selected organizations to submit proposals through an internal process. Direct general questions to the staff at scarter@adamsfoundation.org or 918-591-2433.

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