The Adelson Foundation is an American private charitable foundation founded by business magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam. The organization is based in Los Angeles.
The Adelsons give through two main philanthropic entities, the Adelson Family Foundation and the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation. These are both separate private foundations, but have put them under the rubric of the Adelson Foundations. In turn, though, both these foundations are bankrolled by the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson Charitable Trust.
Noteworthy donations of the organization include: $50 million to the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus, another $67 million in total was donated to their Medical Research Foundation, and $33 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation, and $13 million toward paying for the promotional trips to Israel that the nonprofit organizes for young Jewish people.
In addition, the couple pledged $3 million to Hebrew SeniorLife for housing facilities and a program to bring together older people and elementary-school students for education programs; $2 million to Gateways: Access to Jewish Education for programs for children with special needs; and $1 million to the Chelsea Jewish Foundation for specialized housing for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis. Those pledges will be paid over five years, and since 2007, the Adelson Family Foundation has made contributions totalling $140 million to Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish youth trips to Israel.
The Adelson Foundation gives $200 million annually to Jewish and Israeli causes, the largest by far of any existing private foundation with that aim.
Adelson Family Foundation
The Adelson Family Foundation was established in 2007 by Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to strengthen the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
The Adelson Family Foundation supports charitable organizations located primarily in Israel and the United States that generally fall within the following programmatic categories:
> Healthcare
> Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Awareness
> Israel Advocacy and Defense
> Israel Programs
> Israel Studies on Campus
> Jewish and Zionist Identity & Education
> Media and Culture
> Welfare
The Foundation makes grants to organizations that are public charities or certain other qualified non-profit organizations. It does not generally contribute to capital projects, and does not provide endowment funding.
Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation
The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation is a private foundation committed to a model of open and highly integrated collaboration among outstanding investigators who participate in goal-directed basic and clinical research to prevent, reduce or eliminate disabling and life-threatening illness.
