· Private foundation
Bubes Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Bubes Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater Washington Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Bubes Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $151k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k31 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SHIRLEY POVICH CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND) | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,488 |
| US HOLOCOST MUSEUM | $7,080 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +148%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +78%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH3× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- AIADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k
- CBCONGREGATION BNAI TZEDEKone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +9%
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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.
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The associated: jewish community federation of baltimore strengthens and nurtures jewish life by engaging and supporting community partners in greater baltimore, israel, and around the world. continued on schedule osince 1920, the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 74 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds YACHAD INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus Foundation Inc · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · Duber Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · Stuart & Martha Bindeman Charitable Trust
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 Bubes Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
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.