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Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$72kPhilanthropy$21kEducation$19kReligion$13kArts & Culture$11kCommunity Improvement$7kRecreation & Sports$6kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$3,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Temple Beth El$11,000
San Antonio Academy$10,000
Texas Biomedical Research Institute$3,300
Jewish Federation of San Antonio$2,300
SNIPSA Inc$500
Rey Feo Scholarship Foundation$260
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Boysville Inc: $750 → 16%Respite Care of San Antonio: $750 → 16%Connect Ability: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$107k · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$107k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +68%
  • MA
    MCNAY ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +15%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CA
    Connectability at Warm Springs
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • TT
    THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -50%
  • SL
    ST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF SAN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
2
San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture
3
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
4
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
5
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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7
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
8
Symphony Society of San Antonio

The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach

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9
Texas a&M San Antonio Foundation

To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community

Education
10
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc

The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.

Animals
11
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
San Antonio Tennis Association

Develop and promote the lifetime sport

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr17%4%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr15%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr17%5%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr10%4%35–55yr15%72%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
15%
1,087/7,170

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Temple Beth El — $12,693 · OtherTemple Beth ElSNIPSA Inc — $11,000 · OtherSNIPSA IncSan Antonio Academy — $10,625 · OtherSan Antonio AcademyPlanned Parenthood — $10,200 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodConnectability at Warm Springs — $6,500 · OtherConnectability at Warm SpringsTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF SAN — $5,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF SANSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $2,750 · Other+9 more — $5,470 · Other+9 moreTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $38,440 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTIT…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $4,250 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOODPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,660 · Health+1 more — $850 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO — $18,550 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FED…MCNAY ART MUSEUM — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $2,650 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $850 · Arts & CultureALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN — $700 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN — $500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTABILITY — $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,720 · Human ServicesBOYSVILLE INC — $750 · Human ServicesRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $750 · Human ServicesSAINT MARYS HALL INC — $2,000 · EducationREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $260 · EducationTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $1,250 · EnvironmentGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC — $500 · Environment
Other$69,238Health$45,200Philanthropy$20,550Arts & Culture$8,700Human Services$8,220Education$2,260Environment$1,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $38,440 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO — $18,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTABILITY — $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARYS HALL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,970 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMO BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION ROAD MINISTRIES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

San Antonio Area Foun…Mays Family FoundationElizabeth Huth Coates…John R & Greli N Less…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Betty Stieren Kelso F…The Brown Foundation …The Ewing Halsell Fou…Keith M Orme and Pat …Amy Shelton McNutt Ch…Marcia & Otto Koehler…The Texas Cavaliers C…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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