Massachusetts · Private foundation
Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $1.0M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $906k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.0M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.1M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.1M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $939k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $953k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $806,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $342,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $245,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $238,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Cambridge Camping Association Inc | $228,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Agassiz Village Founded by Mr & Mrs Harry E Burroughs | $215,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Friends of Boston's Homeless Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
How this is measured
Compare Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation give?
- Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,214,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (14%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($806k), Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc ($343k), Rosie's Place Inc ($245k).
- Does Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation based?
- Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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