· Private foundation
Ruben Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $16,300 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $16,300 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $16,300 |
| SMILE TRAIN INC | $16,300 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $16,300 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $16,300 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS INC | $16,300 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $16,300 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $16,300 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $16,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA6× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +31%
SMILE TRAIN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +26%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2018–2023 · $87k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTIONone grant, 2022 · $21k
- SASALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREACOMMAone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruben Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruben Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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