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H & R Rubin and Pearl Robinson Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2019
31
Grants FY2019
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$27kReligion$11kHealth$2kInternational$2kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$880Philanthropy$600Other$0
02FY2019 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k30 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$200
Median grant
10
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWARTHMORE COLL MENTOR FUND$15,000
LARCHMONT TEMPLE$3,297
BROWN U$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$400
MERCY CORPS$250
MSKCC$200
Individual grant recipient$200
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$200
MSKCC$200
MERCY CORPS$200
AM JEWISH WORLD SVCE$200
SO POVERTY LAW CTR$200
DRS WITHOUT BORDERS$200
AGYA FOUNDATION$200
UNITED WAY OF WESTCH$200
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $500 → 7%SAFE HORIZON: $100 → 17%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $200 → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $200 → 9%AGYA FOUNDATION: $200 → 9%NAT'L URBAN LEAGUE: $230 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $100 → 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

NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 15 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$25k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+51%

Still filing today

47%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & 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

  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $430 · revenue +46%
  • SA
    STUDENT ADVOCACY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $400 · revenue +52%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • S
    SWARTHMORE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

24 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. 24 of the 59 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWARTHMORE COLL MENTOR FUND: $15,000 · OtherSWARTHMORE COLL MENTOR FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSWARTHMORE: $10,000 · OtherSWARTHMORELARCHMONT TEMPLE INC: $9,347 · OtherLARCHMONT TEMPLE INCBROWN U: $9,000 · OtherBROWN U+33 more: $13,735 · Other+33 moreSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $430 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $400 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $200 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $200 · Human ServicesWoman Cradle of Abundance: $500 · InternationalMercy Corps: $450 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $50 · InternationalSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $400 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $100 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $180 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100 · Arts & CultureMACCABI USA INC: $200 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $100 · Recreation & SportsWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $200 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$72,082Human Services$1,730International$1,500Education$600Arts & Culture$580Recreation & Sports$300Health$200Crime & Legal$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $50 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.

  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Woman Cradle of Abundance ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 H & R Rubin and Pearl Robinson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H & R Rubin and Pearl Robinson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 59 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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