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Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
12
Organizations funded FY2020
75%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $39k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’19
10
’20
1
’22
0
’24

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

Median grant, FY2020
$1,415
Largest grant, FY2020
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 75% of the organizations Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202012$37k75%
FY20196$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$32kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$11kHealth$2kCivil Rights$2kEnvironment$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$25,50030%
Central Synagogue$7,0002n/a
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$5,00010%
Hevreh of Southern Berkshire Inc$2,6782n/a
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$2,50010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,50010%
Anti-Defamation League$1,50010%
Anxiety and Depression Association of America$1,00010%
American Jewish Committee$50010%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$5001n/a
South Florida Pbs Inc$10010%
Wamc$5010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnxiety and Depression Association of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWamc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 10.

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Find your warmest path to Burton & Suzanne 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 Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation

How much does Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation give?
Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $38,565 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Philanthropy (19%), Religion (19%).
Who are Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($26k), Central Synagogue ($7k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($5k).
Does Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation based?
Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation is based in FL.

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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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