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Ronald & Marcia J Rubin Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Health$38kAnimals$20kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$2kOther$37k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$254k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM$10,000
ADATH ISRAEL$5,000
ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION$5,000
CITY OF ELDERLY LOVE$5,000
THE SAMUEL D COZEN FOUNDATION$5,000
NARBERTH AMBULANCE$3,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,500
LOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BELMONT HILLS FIRE COMPANY$1,000
GLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY$1,000
PENN WYNNE FIRE COMPANY$1,000
UNION FIRE ASSOCIATION$1,000
BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY$1,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $3k → 16%CITY OF ELDERLY LOVE: $5k → 6%UNION FIRE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 10%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%LARC SCHOOL: $2k → 12%ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION: $5k → 10%BELMONT HILLS FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 7%ARDMORE FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 10%THE SAMUEL D COZEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%GLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 7%NARBERTH AMBULANCE: $3k → 10%BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%ADATH ISRAEL: $5k → 7%LOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 10%PAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%PENN WYNNE FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 7%ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM: $10k → 22%NARBERTH FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 7%JEFFERSON-PARKINSON'S CARE TO CURE: $10k → 22%GERSHMAN PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $1k → 22%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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Upper Frederick Fire Company

To provide volunteer fire fighting and prevention services in upper frederick township, montgomery county, pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
4
Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc

Operation of a volunteer fire department and rescue squad for the citizens of the Town of Berwyn Heights, MD

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
6
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
7
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
8
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
9
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
10
The Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund Inc
11
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
12
Plymouth Fire Company # 1

Volunteer fire company plymouth township, montgomery county, pennsylvania

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Care and Control Team and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Heart Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $7,900 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKIN…VOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR — $3,000 · HealthVOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NA…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncJEFFERSON-PARKINSON'S CARE TO CURE — $10,000 · OtherJEFFERSON-PARKINSON'S CARE TO CUREMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,900 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONADATH ISRAEL — $5,000 · OtherADATH ISRAELTHE SAMUEL D COZEN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTHE SAMUEL D COZEN FOUNDATIONLOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · OtherLOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATIO…+7 more — $7,000 · Other+7 moreANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM — $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE AND CONT…ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $5,000 · AnimalsANGUILLA ANIMAL RESC…CITY OF ELDERLY LOVE — $5,000 · AnimalsCITY OF ELDERLY LOVEPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Crime & LegalBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBELMONT HILLS FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLARC SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE LARC NORCROSS SCHOOL — $1,500 · Education
Health$38,400Other$36,900Animals$20,000Crime & Legal$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$3,000Education$1,500

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $7,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY OF ELDERLY LOVE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARC SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE LARC NORCROSS SCHOOL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT HILLS FIRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ronald & Marcia J Rubin Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Larc School Inc D/B/a the Larc Norcross School1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ronald & Marcia J Rubin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ronald & Marcia J Rubin Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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