· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $3,500 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH | $1,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,500 |
| HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE | $1,415 |
| HADASSAH | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER | $500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $500 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBS | $100 |
| WAMC NORTHEAST PUBLIC RADIO | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2019–2022 · $26k · revenue +22%
- CSCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE2× · 2019–2020 · $7k
- HOHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $3k
Funded once
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +21%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +76%
- AAANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton & Suzanne Rubin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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