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Audra Zuckerman and Mitchell Rubin Foundation Inc

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$265kHealth$50kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$6kArts & Culture$5kInternational$5kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE IDEAL SCHOOL$25,000
LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL$8,500
NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY$6,000
THE MEETING HOUSE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
THE SUGAR PLUM SLED$250
EDWARD MENSCH FOUNDATION$75
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFYA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SUGARPLUM SLED: $250 → 17%THE SUGAR PLUM SLED: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$295k · 11 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$295k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

64%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    The Ideal School of Manhattan
    5× · 2020–2024 · $186k · revenue +5%
  • AP
    ACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +57%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MM
    MARK MESSIER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Vincent Smith School

The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.

Education
2
The Lang School

Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…

Education
3
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
4
Associated Medical Schools of New York

Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
8
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverview School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sled. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Ideal School of Manhattan — $186,000 · EducationThe Ideal School of ManhattanCornell University — $20,000 · EducationCornell UniversityRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC — $17,500 · EducationRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INCLAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $11,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationTHE IDEAL SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherTHE IDEAL SCHOOLNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY — $11,500 · OtherNATIONAL DOWN SYNDRO…Individual grant recipient — $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $2,500 · Other+15 more — $13,550 · Other+15 moreACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION — $35,400 · HealthACCESS PSYC…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUGARPLUM SLED INC — $500 · Human ServicesMARK MESSIER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $75 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION — $800 · Arts & Culture
Education$239,500Other$62,050Health$36,400Human Services$5,500Philanthropy$5,075Arts & Culture$2,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Ideal School of Manhattan — $186,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION — $35,400 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCornell University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $11,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMARK MESSIER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Exceptional Care — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION — $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUGARPLUM SLED INC — $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Audra Zuckerman and Mitchell Rubin Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Riverview School Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Audra Zuckerman and Mitchell Rubin Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Audra Zuckerman and Mitchell Rubin Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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