· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EIELLUMINATE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +31%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +40%- MTMOVING TRADITIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +14%
- JCJEWISH CREATIVITY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- USUSC SHOAH FOUNDATIONone 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.
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
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…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 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.
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
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.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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