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Bubes Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bubes Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$151k
Granted FY2019
36
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$491kHealth$95kArts & Culture$79kReligion$51kRecreation & Sports$38kHuman Services$27kCivil Rights$26kEducation$22kOther$0
02FY2019 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k31 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ADAS ISRAEL$7,488
US HOLOCOST MUSEUM$7,080
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY$5,000
JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES$5,000
SALEM COLLEGE$5,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON$4,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $5k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $500 → 8%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $250 → 14%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE: $3k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $1k → 14%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE: $1k → 14%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
WI
NY
PA
CT
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 26 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$301k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+44%

Still filing today

46%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +148%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +78%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    3× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AI
    ADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BNAI TZEDEK
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +25%
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.

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The George Washington University

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…

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
4
Meridian International Center

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…

International
5
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
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
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

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…

Community Improvement
8
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
9
The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc

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…

Philanthropy
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $473,806 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC+3 more: $14,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDSTAR GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL: $40,000 · OtherMEDSTAR GEORGETOWN HOSPITALSHIRLEY POVICH CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND): $37,500 · OtherSHIRLEY POVICH CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF MA…ADAS ISRAEL: $30,409 · OtherADAS ISRAELWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $20,500 · OtherWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACA…PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH: $18,500 · OtherPISGAH BAPTIST CHURCHTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $11,100 · Other+41 more: $129,290 · Other+41 moreJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesGEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $4,100 · Human Services+2 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ART FOR HEALING INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureANNE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $17,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $7,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $4,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $3,000 · HealthMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $2,500 · HealthHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,228 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education
Philanthropy$487,806Other$332,299Human Services$30,850Arts & Culture$29,500Civil Rights$26,000Health$24,728Education$16,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $473,806 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $20,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $11,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYACHAD INC: $6,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET CONNECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ART FOR HEALING INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgetown Heritage: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Clubhouse Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Greater Washington Co…The Jewish Federation…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Gary and Pennie A…The Julius and Doroth…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…Duber Family Foundati…The Annette M Lerner …Bender Foundation IncAlan and Amy Meltzer …Stuart & Martha Binde…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC31.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bubes Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bubes Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 74 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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