Illinois · Private foundation
Melva Bucksbaum Family 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.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $335,335
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $3.2M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $2.5M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $2.1M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2.1M | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Art Museum | $5,000,000 | 5 | 17% |
| The Aspen Country Day School Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Quahog Bay Conservation | $1,325,000 | 8 | 58% |
| Drake University | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Baum Foundation | $750,000 | 2 | 42% |
| Second Amendment Foundation | $750,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Preventive Medicine Research Institute | $335,335 | 1 | 26% |
| Northwestern University | $335,334 | 1 | n/a |
| Nevada Northern Railway Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 7% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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: Scanlan Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation
- How much does Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation give?
- Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $4,006,004 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aspen Art Museum ($5.0M), The Aspen Country Day School Inc ($3.0M), Quahog Bay Conservation ($1.3M).
- Does Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melva Bucksbaum Family 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 Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scanlan Family Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation based?
- Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation is based in IL.
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