Illinois · Private foundation
John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2025
- 124
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $515,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 124
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 132 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 124 | $982k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 111 | $2.4M | 69% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $1.4M | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Denver | $1,757,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $1,500,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Focus Foundation Inc | $1,150,000 | 5 | 72% |
| Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc | $994,187 | 9 | 3% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $886,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $620,260 | 7 | n/a |
| Podium Society Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 18% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $331,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago | $165,250 | 6 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Brady Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Alpenglow Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found with peer funders
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About John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found
- How much does John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found give?
- John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found reported 134 grants totaling $2,007,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 124 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Denver ($1.8M), The Barack Obama Foundation ($1.5M), The Focus Foundation Inc ($1.1M).
- Does John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found based?
- John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found is based in IL.
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