· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k97 grants · $257k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $471k
- $250k+2 grants · $765k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO | $515,000 |
| PODIUM SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB | $166,000 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS | $75,000 |
| CINEMA CHICAGO | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| CIVIC COUNSULTING ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC | $40,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $30,000 |
| MOADON KOL CHADASH | $28,000 |
| PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $22,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER7× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +27%- TFTHE FOCUS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +56% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +33%
- TYThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicagograduatedone grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue +68%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
How this is measured
163 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 163 of the 231 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Podium Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds USA Nordic Sport ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MOADON KOL CHADASH ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ALPINE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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