Illinois · Private foundation
Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation
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.
- $373k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 55 | $373k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $283k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $405k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $325k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $282k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $245k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $220k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $229k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elluminate Inc | $361,545 | 9 | 3% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $313,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Moving Traditions | $230,100 | 9 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $229,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Refugee Commission Inc | $93,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $72,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $54,183 | 9 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $51,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($446k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation
- How much does Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation give?
- Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $372,860 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elluminate Inc ($362k), The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($314k), Moving Traditions ($230k).
- Does Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation 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 Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation based?
- Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation is based in IL.
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