The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application from a small charity is unlikely to be considered; a warm introduction is the sensible first step.
• Its stated areas are Transcendental Meditation, environmental sustainability, health and wellness, education, and music and the arts, and it works with partner organisations that introduce TM to vulnerable populations or focus on those areas, so your work should clearly sit within one of them.
• Its typical grants fall between $1,500 and $70,000, with a median of about $8,350, so a modest request fits its usual pattern, although its largest grant has been about $2,250,000.
• Most of its grant dollars in the most recent filing went to organisations it had also funded in one of the two earlier filings, so this is a relationship-led funder where a new applicant should expect to be a first-time grantee.
• No geographic focus is stated, so your location alone should not rule you out.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Maharishi International University · Unrestricted funds
  $889,3402024 tax year
• Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation · Unrestricted funds
  $677,1282024 tax year
• Africa College Fund · Unrestricted funds
  $262,5002024 tax year
• David Lynch Foundation · Unrestricted funds
  $122,5252024 tax year
• Mother Divine Program · Unrestricted funds
  $98,1622024 tax year
• Maharishi Purusha Program · Unrestricted funds
  $71,0802024 tax year
• Maharishi Foundation International · Unrestricted funds
  $67,5002024 tax year
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Unrestricted funds
  $66,6662024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.