Four solvated salt-type adducts derived from cyclam (1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) and carboxylic acids have been structurally characterized. In the salt derived from adamantane-1-carboxylic acid, 4,11-diaza-1,8-diazoniacyclotetradecane bis(adamantane-1-carboxylate) tetrahydrate, (1) (monoclinic, P21/c, Z′ = 0.5), where the cation lies across a centre of inversion, the anions and the water molecules form chains of edge-fused R_4^2(8) and R_6^6(16) rings, which are linked into sheets by the cations. In the 4-aminobenzoate salt, 4,11-diaza-1,8-diazoniacyclotetradecane bis(4-aminobenzoate) monohydrate, (2) (monoclinic, C2/c, Z′ = 0.5), where the cation lies across a centre of inversion and the water molecule lies across a twofold rotation axis, the cations and anions generate a three-dimensional framework, readily analysed in terms of two distinct two-dimensional substructures, viz. (10\overline 1) sheets of R_8^6(46) rings, and pairwise interwoven (100) sheets, reinforced by water molecules. The 3-hydroxybenzoate salt, 4,11-diaza-1,8-diazoniacyclotetradecane bis(3-hydroxybenzoate) dihydrate, (3) (monoclinic, Pc, Z′ = 1), contains a three-dimensional framework constructed from anions and water molecules only, which encapsulates large voids and within which the cations are linked to the anion–water framework via N—H...O hydrogen bonds. There are two independent cations in 4,11-diaza-1,8-diazoniacyclotetradecane 5-hydroxyisophthalate(2−) methanol solvate, (4) (monoclinic, P21/c, Z′ = 1), both lying across centres of inversion but with entirely different configurations. The anions alone form simple chains, and these chains are linked by the two types of cation into a three-dimensional framework from which the methanol molecules are pendent. Comparisons are made with carboxylate complexes of the [Ni(cyclam)]2+ cation and with carboxylate salts derived from meso-5,5,7,12,12,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane.