· Private foundation
Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YALE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY (UNDER AMHERST COLLEGE) | $9,500 |
| 100REPORTERS | $8,500 |
| HARVARD PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| STUDIO THEATRE | $5,500 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| THEATRE JEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MOVEMENT VOTER FUND | $5,000 |
| TELLURIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
97 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DODISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +82%
- WMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +22%
- LMLEVINE MUSIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- HCHARVARD COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -34%
- USUNITED STATES NATIONAL ARBORETUMone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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.
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
How this is measured
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 140 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
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.
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Iona Senior Services ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds COSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Telluride Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Open Society Institute
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
- Parent Encouragement Program Inc: 22% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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