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Rene S and Rubin Rabinowitz Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS-NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$12,000
ACLU$10,000
POETS HOUSE$8,000
THE MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION$5,000
NPR$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,339
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$3,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$3,000
MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,341
DISAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION$2,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$2,000
MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K$1,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX COUNTY INC$1,000
MUSICIAN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%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 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
Montclair State University Foundation Inc

The montclair state university foundation ("the foundation") was established to encourage and support the growth and development of montclair state university through fundraising activities that help further the educational, experiential,…

Education
2
Montclair Film Festival Inc

Montclair film connects global filmmakers with audiences in a diverse, culturally vibrant community by presenting films and year-round programs that engage, entertain, and educate through the power of visual storytelling.

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Montclair Historical Society

Mission: the mission of the montclair historical society (dba montclair history center) is to preserve local history through its historical buildings, artifacts and documents; educate the community about local hsistory and its importance;…

Arts & Culture
8
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation

To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…

Health
9
National Multifamily Housing Council Inc

Nmhc provides leadership and advocacy that promotes thriving rental housing communities for all.

10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Early Childhood Corp Montclair Community Pre-K and the most unlike its peers is The Innocence Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS-NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS-NEW YORK UNIVERSITYACLU — $10,000 · OtherACLUNPR — $5,000 · OtherNPRMontclair Foundation Inc — $5,000 · OtherMontclair Foundation IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+3 more — $3,000 · Other+3 morePOETS HOUSE INC — $8,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS HOUSE I…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $3,339 · EducationMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K — $1,000 · EducationDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC — $1,000 · HealthMONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT — $1,000 · HealthTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 · InternationalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 · Crime & LegalMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $2,341 · PhilanthropyTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$40,000Arts & Culture$8,000Education$4,339Health$4,000International$3,000Crime & Legal$3,000Philanthropy$2,341Human Services$2,000

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 budgetPOETS HOUSE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMontclair Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $3,339 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $2,341 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Network for GoodDC9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rene S and Rubin Rabinowitz Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Montclair Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc1% of income from government
  • Montclair Ambulance Unit0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 18 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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