· Private foundation
Barbara N Rubin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACT | $25,000 |
| ANACAPA SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PEOPLES SELF HELP HOUSING | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA COAST | $7,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS | $6,500 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILY RESCUE SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SANSUM CLINIC | $5,000 |
| WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATIONS STUDENT COUNCILS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
| AM FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHATAL-SALAM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,160 |
| PRESBYTERIAN PEACE FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| VNA HEALTH | $2,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EIECPAT-USA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $176k · revenue +279%
- PSPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +88%
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- ECENDING CHILD LABOR AT THE SOURCEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- LPLOS PADRES BOY SCOUT COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.
Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership and advocacy
Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
The organization works in concert with San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation to provide transitional housing, supportive services, and aftercare to aid and support homeless women who have been commercially sexually exploited…
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County and the most unlike its peers is Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 70 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Anacapa School ↗
- Who funds ECPAT-USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds California Association of Student Councils ↗
- Who funds Critical Mass Dance Company We Still Move ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Casa Serena ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN PEACE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE ECOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
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.
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
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 Barbara N Rubin Foundation 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.
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.
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