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Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$215kHealth$107kReligion$69kInternational$38kRecreation & Sports$30kPhilanthropy$27kEducation$20kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,923
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$4,923
FRIENDS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ANIMALS INC$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $250 → 12%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

NY
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$341k · 9 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$341k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+10%

Still filing today

33%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • KC
    KENNEDY CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $124k
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $69k
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • WF
    WHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +170%
  • TS
    THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -16%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
4
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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5
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
6
Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation

Pva research foundation inc., a non-profit organization founded in washington, dc in 1976, is controlled by the paralyzed veterans of america ("pva"), a national organization chartered by the u.s. congress on august 11, 1971. pva research…

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7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
University of Virginia Patent Foundation

The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.

Education
10
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
11
The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Pen Faulkner Foundation

The pen/faulkner foundation champions the breadth and power of fiction in america.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Knock Out Abuse. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNEDY CENTER: $123,750 · OtherKENNEDY CENTERJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL CENTERWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $68,890 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATIONWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $38,000 · OtherWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK+12 more: $52,673 · Other+12 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE …THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA BUSH…VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVICE PRESIDENT'S…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKNOCK OUT ABUSE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyKOLLEL VILNA: $2,500 · PhilanthropyFriends of Montgomery County Animals Inc: $5,500 · Animals
Other$413,313Arts & Culture$81,000Health$20,250Education$10,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$7,500Animals$5,500

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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Montgomery County Animals Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKOLLEL VILNA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NAT'L FUND FOR THE US BOTANIC GARDEN: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPATTON VETERANS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $100 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    How do I get to Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Elizabeth & Richard Dubin 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 29 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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