· Private foundation
Charles and Elsie Ruben Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JCC AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA | $12,500 |
| AEMT | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,436 |
| CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM | $3,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| JFCS FOOD PANTRY | $2,250 |
| CONGREGATION DOR TIKVAH | $2,000 |
| CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| LALDEF | $1,500 |
| AECDC | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +30%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +112%
- AJAUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- GOGOALS OF CARE COALITION OF NEW JERSEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +31%
- ASAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +56%
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 35 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOALS OF CARE COALITION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Elsie Ruben Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Elsie Ruben Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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