Maryland · Private foundation
The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $889,340
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $44M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $2.8M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $3.7M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.6M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $2.4M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $2.2M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 80 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maharishi International University | $7,166,950 | 8 | 4% |
| Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation | $3,135,263 | 8 | 27% |
| Brahmananda Saraswati Yagya Foundation | $1,806,750 | 3 | 13% |
| David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace | $1,541,774 | 8 | 4% |
| Maharishi Purusha Program | $597,963 | 8 | 4% |
| Global Projects for Peace | $496,754 | 4 | 34% |
| District of Columbia College Access Program | $375,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Africa College Fund | $318,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Global Mother Divine Org USA Tm Program for Women Professionals | $236,106 | 5 | 29% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $232,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 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: Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Schwartz Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Invincibility Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation with peer funders
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About The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation
- How much does The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation give?
- The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $2,815,684 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Religion (31%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maharishi International University ($7.2M), Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation ($3.1M), Brahmananda Saraswati Yagya Foundation ($1.8M).
- Does The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson 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 The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Galena-Yorktown Foundation, The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation based?
- The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation is based in MD.
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