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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 FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$875kHealth$414kArts & Culture$244kYouth Development$230kCivil Rights$176kInternational$172kReligion$138kFood & Nutrition$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$50,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
ELLUMINATE$40,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$30,000
ADL FIGHTING HATE FOR GOOD$15,000
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
MOVING TRADITIONS$10,000
CITY HARVEST$10,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$7,500
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$7,500
HADDASSAH$5,125
B'NAI JESHURUN$5,000
THE ASSOCIATION OF RAPE CRISIS CENTERS IN ISRAEL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCESSCIRCLES LLC: $7k → 9%ACCESS CIRCLES: $3k → 9%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $25k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $20k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $15k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $15k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $12k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISRAELI FLYING AID: $5k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%ABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE: $2k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $500 → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $10k → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $7k → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $6k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $250 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
OR
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NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 64 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
38

Total granted

$2.3M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EI
    ELLUMINATE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +31%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +40%
  • MT
    MOVING TRADITIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +14%
  • JC
    JEWISH CREATIVITY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • US
    USC SHOAH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Selfhelp Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eugene Zitwer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELLUMINATE INC: $361,545 · OtherELLUMINATE INCMISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 2000: $86,535 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 2000THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $51,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $72,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC+79 more: $576,790 · Other+79 moreTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $313,500 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CAN…+2 more: $1,360 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $229,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $22,680 · PhilanthropyBEND THE AR…+2 more: $560 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $155,000 · Arts & CultureThe United…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $54,183 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK C…MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $14,812 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN …ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $9,410 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $10,064 · Arts & CultureMOVING TRADITIONS: $230,100 · ReligionMOVING TRA…FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $12,500 · ReligionWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $93,800 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesACCESSCIRCLES INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5,500 · Human Services+5 more: $10,650 · Human ServicesCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $45,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $44,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $8,180 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,198,870Public Safety & Disaster$314,860Philanthropy$252,740Arts & Culture$243,469Religion$242,600Human Services$159,450Food & Nutrition$99,180

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELLUMINATE INC: $361,545 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $313,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $230,100 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $229,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $93,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $72,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $54,183 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $51,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $22,680 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $21,010 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $17,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $15,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $14,812 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETE ALLY INC: $13,205 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $9,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $9,410 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSCIRCLES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $8,180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $6,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $5,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRETHINK THE CONVERSATION LTD: $2,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,064 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ELLUMINATE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATION AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Kesher ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETE ALLY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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