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Barbara N Rubin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
44
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 48
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Barbara N Rubin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving44$121k7%
FY202437$93k3%
FY202342$261k0%
FY202248$144k21%
FY202141$156k7%
FY202042$154k29%
FY201933$115k39%
FY201827$123k41%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$333kEducation$270kHousing & Shelter$129kHealth$115kYouth Development$101kArts & Culture$91kHuman Services$68kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Barbara N Rubin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Anacapa School$225,00059%
Ecpat-Usa Inc$176,01065%
People's Self Help Housing Corp$82,50080%
Direct Relief$80,00060%
Sacramento Childrens Museum$40,00072%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc$32,00080%
Hillside House$28,68140%
California Association of Student Councils$26,00081%
Critical Mass Dance Company We Still Move$23,52567%
Sansum Clinic$21,00050%
The Albany Museum of Art Incorpora$17,26021%
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation$16,00050%
Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County$14,50080%
Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County$12,60070%
Casa Serena$11,50070%
Storyteller Childrens Center Inc$11,00080%
Pathpoint$11,00070%
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship$11,00061%
Living Waters for the World$11,00060%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$10,50070%
Explore Ecology$10,00070%
American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc$10,00040%
Unity Shoppe Inc$9,50070%
Hidden Harvest Corporation$9,00080%
Calm Inc$9,00080%
Project H O P E Inc$9,0006n/a
Transition House$8,00080%
Vna Health$8,00040%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc$7,00060%
Women's Alliance for Theology Ethics and Ritual Inc$7,00070%
Camp Ocean Pines Inc$7,00040%
Leading from Within$6,00060%
Transitionsmental Health Association$5,00050%
St Andrews Presbyterian Church$5,0001n/a
Santa Ynez Valley Senior Citizens Foundation$5,00011%
Partners in Housing Solutions Inc$4,00041%
Children's Defense Fund$4,00040%
Safe House Project Inc$4,00040%
Court Appointed Special Advocates$3,00030%
Project Dignity$2,50011%
Organic Soup Kitchen$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($246k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara N Rubin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Anacapa School: $225,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetEcpat-Usa Inc: $176,010 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPeople's Self Help Housing Corp: $82,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Childrens Museum: $40,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHillside House: $28,681 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Association of Student Councils: $26,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCritical Mass Dance Company We Still Move: $23,525 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSansum Clinic: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Albany Museum of Art Incorpora: $17,260 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County: $14,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMental Health Association in Santa Barbara County: $12,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Serena: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStoryteller Childrens Center Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPathpoint: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Peace Fellowship: $11,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLiving Waters for the World: $11,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetExplore Ecology: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHidden Harvest Corporation: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCalm Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTransition House: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVna Health: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Alliance for Theology Ethics and Ritual Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCamp Ocean Pines Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLeading from Within: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTransitionsmental Health Association: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Senior Citizens Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPartners in Housing Solutions Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Defense Fund: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSafe House Project Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Dignity: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOrganic Soup Kitchen: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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.

Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mosher Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Barbara N Rubin Foundation 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.

About Barbara N Rubin Foundation

How much does Barbara N Rubin Foundation give?
Barbara N Rubin Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $120,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Barbara N Rubin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (27%), Education (22%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Barbara N Rubin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Anacapa School ($225k), Ecpat-Usa Inc ($176k), People's Self Help Housing Corp ($83k).
Does Barbara N Rubin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara N Rubin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara N Rubin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Towbes Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
Where is Barbara N Rubin Foundation based?
Barbara N Rubin Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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