· Private foundation
Milton and Margie Ruben Charitable Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of MILTON AND MARGIE RUBEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY BOOKFEST | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN THEATER CO | $5,642 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $1,640 |
| CENTER FOR LIFE ENRICHMENT | $1,500 |
| RAY COLEMAN BRIDGE CLUB | $1,080 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY | $163 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +30%
- PAPerforming Arts Center Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +14%
- HCHIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARTIN-LIPSCOMB PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $14k
- AMAUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%
- POPRESS ONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Jewish Community Center Foundation was established in 1994 to secure long-term support of the Asheville JCC. The Foundation manages cash investments to generate annual operating income supporting JCC programs & services.
See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The auburn civic symphony provides opportunities for foothill area musicians, composers, and audiences to share enriching musical experiences.
The mission of the WNC Jewish Federation is to harness the collective resources of the WNC Jewish community and direct them to the Jewish needs in the local community, in Israel and abroad.
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum is dedicated to connecting people to jewish history, culture, and arts.
The mission of the Charleston Jewish Federation is to build, secure and sustain Jewish life in Charleston, Israel, and around the world.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
To produce theatre on the highest possible professional level. interest to jewish audiences.
To continue the tradition of excellence in musical entertainment and education, while enriching the cultural experience of audiences of all ages throughout northeast tennessee and southwest virginia and points beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Museum of History Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds University Health Care Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Knox Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · The Woodcrest Foundation · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Jones Family Fund · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Milton and Margie Ruben Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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