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.

Barbara N Rubin Foundation

Barbara N Rubin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barbara N Rubin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $76k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PACT	$25,000
PEOPLES SELF HELP HOUSING	$10,000
ANACAPA SCHOOL	$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA COAST	$7,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS	$6,500
SANSUM CLINIC	$5,000
CHILDREN & FAMILY RESCUE SERVICES	$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
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$2,000
PRESBYTERIAN PEACE FELLOWSHIP	$2,000
SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 53 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+56%

Still filing today

68%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

EI
ECPAT-USA INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $176k · revenue +279%
PS
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP
8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +88%
DIRECT RELIEF
6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +94%

Funded once

EC
ENDING CHILD LABOR AT THE SOURCE
one grant, 2017 · $25k
LP
LOS PADRES BOY SCOUT COUNCIL
one grant, 2020 · $10k
SA
ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $5k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified

Santa Barbara New House

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…

Health

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.

Human Services

South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health

Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

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…

Housing & Shelter

Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto

Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership and advocacy

Human Services

California Walks

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights

San Francisco Safehouse

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…

Human Services

Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services

The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County; 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.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

34/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$609,441International$278,010Housing & Shelter$90,500Arts & Culture$87,785Health$69,100Youth Development$58,000Human Services$47,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara N Rubin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara N Rubin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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