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Rene S and Rubin Rabinowitz Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
THE MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION$5,000
NPR$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 AMBULANCE$1,000
CLIFTON ARTS CENTER INC$1,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX COUNTY INC$1,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Early Childhood Corp Montclair Community Pre-K; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS-NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS-NEW YORK UNIVERSITYACLU: $10,000 · OtherACLUPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMontclair Foundation Inc: $5,000 · OtherMontclair Foundation IncNPR: $5,000 · OtherNPR+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rene S and Rubin Rabinowitz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rene S and Rubin Rabinowitz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Montclair Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Montclair Ambulance Unit: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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