· Private foundation
Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Center of Torah & Chesed | $37,400 |
| Chicago Chesed Fund | $21,000 |
| The Chicago Center | $18,000 |
| American Friends of N.A. | $6,000 |
| JDBY | $5,180 |
| American Friends of Bnei Levy | $5,000 |
| Arie Crown Hebrew Day School | $3,600 |
| Friendship Circle of MB | $1,800 |
| Sharsheret | $1,000 |
| Jewish Sacred Society | $360 |
| Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie | $360 |
| Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation | $100 |
| Hebrew Academy For Special Children | $72 |
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 (FY17–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +74% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 45 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHICAGO CHESED FUND5× · 2017–2021 · $62k · revenue +87%
- KKESHET2× · 2019–2021 · $31k · revenue +44%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CKCONGREGATION KEHILAS YAAKOVone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $18k
- CACONG ATERES ELIEZER IF BISCADone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.
To ignite jewish passion and empower every jew to embrace their heritage, thereby ensuring the vibrant continuity of the jewish epople.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 202 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Jewish Communal Fund · Bellows Family Foundation · Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation · Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Lev Zahav NFP · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Dennis and Joyce Ruben’s filings →