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Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation at a glance

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Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$199kEducation$10kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$318k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASOLO THEATRE INC$15,000
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY$5,000
LUNA PARC ATELIER FOUNDATION$5,000
THE FELIX ORGANIZATION$5,000
VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION$3,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE$2,500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ME2 ORCHESTRA: $500 → 16%THE FELIX ORGANIZATION: $5k → 6%INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHSYCHOTHERAPY: $5k → 17%DREAM STREET NYC: $2k → 20%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $5k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%HELEN DAY ART CENTER: $750 → 9%LOST NATION THEATER: $750 → 9%THE FELIX ORGANIZATION: $5k → 6%INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY: $5k → 17%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $5k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $500 → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $15k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $10k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $10k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $10k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $5k → 10%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $5k → 10%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $5k → 10%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE: $3k → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 7 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$225k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+35%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +25%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +101%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • VC
    VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • LN
    LOST NATION THEATER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $750 · revenue +15%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
2
The Contemporary Theater Company

To provide opportunities for the community to create and experience live performances in ways for all to be proud of and enjoy along with educational programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
4
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
5
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
6
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
8
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
9
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
10
Third Rail Repertory Theatre

The mission of third rail repertory theatre is to provide a dynamic artistic home for theatre audiences in portland by fostering a professional local company, which, through collaboration and discipline, brings to life exceptional stories…

Arts & Culture
11
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

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12
The Actors Company Theatre Inc

The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASOLO THEATRE INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INCFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC+3 more: $3,750 · Arts & CultureSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS…INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY: $10,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORA…LUNA PARC ATELIER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherLUNA PARC ATELIER FOUNDA…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $750 · OtherFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$161,250Other$49,750Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$10,000Food & Nutrition$500

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 budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOST NATION THEATER INC: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetME2 ORCHESTRA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Vermont Community…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · 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 Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Vermont Council On the Arts Inc: 20% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard and Gail Rubin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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