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David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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
7
States reached
$8.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $529k
  • $250k+2 grants · $9.0M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GALISTEO ART FOUNDATION$8,715,247
FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC CODE NA$250,000
IMPACT AFRICA NETWORK$200,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$125,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$100,000
UNICEF$53,587
YOUNGARTS$50,000
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$25,000
FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION$25,000
GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK$25,000
LITTLE LIONS KENYA INC$25,000
THE GATEWAY COALITION FUND$10,000
FREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT$5,150
CARNEGIE HALL$5,000
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER$2,325
02The need
03

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 (FY20–23, $617k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE LIONS KENYA INC: $25k → 16%NEW STORY: $92k → 10%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT: $250k → 17%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT: $250k → 17%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

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 10 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
41

Total granted

$14M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
-19%

Still filing today

60%
59%

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%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10M · revenue +64%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +183%
  • CI
    CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue -100%
  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $936k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $714k · revenue -54%
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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
7
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
8
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Fair Wage Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Loveland Foundation. 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

39 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. 39 of the 65 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
20/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GALISTEO ART FOUNDATION: $8,715,247 · OtherGALISTEO ART FOUNDATIONNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTIONS: $935,792 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTIONSIMPACT AFRICA NETWORK: $700,000 · OtherFLEXPORTORG: $495,759 · Other+34 more: $2,583,794 · Other+34 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,070,227 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFMYRIAD USA INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC+2 more: $150,945 · InternationalWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,000,263 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUM: $155,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $144,325 · Arts & CultureNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $713,626 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $325,892 · Civil RightsONE FAIR WAGE INC: $271,857 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $100,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $25,152 · Civil RightsOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION: $76,885 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,626 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC: $91,825 · Human ServicesLITTLE LIONS KENYA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesRESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC: $500,000 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $13,494 · Health
Other$13,430,592International$11,221,172Arts & Culture$2,299,588Civil Rights$1,436,527Philanthropy$1,183,511Human Services$616,825Health$538,494

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 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 budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $3,754 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $3,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $2,872 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
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: 33% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to David C Butterfield and Alfonso D Rubio Memorial 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.

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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