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David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.6M
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
16
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,715,247
Organizations funded a year
12 to 31
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202316$9.6M69%
FY202212$3.7M58%
FY202116$12M81%
FY202031$3.9Mn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

International$13MArts & Culture$11MHealth$1.5MCivil Rights$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.1MCrime & Legal$706kRecreation & Sports$521kEmployment$469kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
MD
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,070,227 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $2,000,263 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetOpencollective Foundation: $1,100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $713,626 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetResolve to Save Lives Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetChildren in Conflict Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $325,892 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOne Fair Wage Inc: $271,857 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetShare Our Strength: $268,753 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAspen Art Museum: $155,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Anti-Recidivism Coalition: $100,487 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCollege Track: $100,196 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Story Inc: $91,825 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUncommon Law: $85,497 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $77,328 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrid110 Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: $72,950 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNuru International: $50,945 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $50,267 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMusicares Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPaws for Life K9 Rescue: $25,157 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $25,152 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrassroot Soccer Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Reach Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Lions Kenya Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOne Mind: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave Giraffes Now: $7,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese Progressive Association: $3,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay: $2,469 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $2,325 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 35.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation

How much does David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation give?
David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $9,616,516 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (41%), Arts & Culture (36%), Health (5%).
Who are David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: United States Fund for Unicef ($10M), Whitney Museum of American Art ($2.0M), Opencollective Foundation ($1.1M).
Does David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation based?
David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation is based in NY.

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 65 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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