Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation

Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation

The Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation was formed in 1967 by Henry Taub and his wife Marilyn. Henry Taub co-founded Automatic Payrolls, which evolved into ADP, one of the world's largest business-outsourcing firms now serving clients in over 125 countries. The founding couple shaped the foundation's mission around Jewish heritage, medical research, and community-strengthening causes in northern New Jersey. The Taub family now directs the foundation across generations — Henry and Marilyn's sons Steven and Ira, and their daughter Judy, occupy the three senior operating roles on the board. The foundation does not act as an open grantmaker. It funds only a closed list of institutions selected by the family's board. Program areas split into three pillars: early childhood development, aging in place, and medical research. The aging-in-place work, which funds initiatives that help older adults remain in their homes, is led by Program Director Julia Stoumbos. The medical-research pillar channels substantial support to the Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University. Early childhood grants are directed by Melissa Litwin, focusing on underserved communities in New Jersey. The foundation also maintains assets outside traditional grantmaking — oil and gas rights and real-estate holdings including a horse farm in Brookshire, Texas, and land in Harris County, Texas. The foundation is run by a lean staff of four: an executive director, two program directors, and a grants administrator. The board comprises seven directors, all Taub family members. Henry Taub was a past national president of the American Technion Society, reflecting the family's philanthropic ties to Israel. The foundation is a member of Philanthropy New York and the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers. In January 2023, the foundation published a roster of faculty and staff at the Taub Institute at Columbia, signaling sustained investment in Alzheimer's research infrastructure. The foundation's structural differentiator is its closed, non-solicited grantmaking model. Unlike most family foundations of its scale, it operates without a public application process and channels funds exclusively to organizations with historic ties to the Taub family. This architecture shields the foundation from unsolicited demand and concentrates its capital on a small number of multi-decade institutional relationships, with a succession structure that keeps the board entirely within the family.