· Private foundation
Rubenstein Family Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $105,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $30,000 |
| CARROLL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HOME FOR OUR TROOPS | $10,000 |
| YMCA OLD COLONY BROCKTON | $10,000 |
| PARK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEA MEADOW MARINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| STACHESTRONG INC | $5,000 |
| DEXTER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Rubenstein Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +39%
- DIDANA-FARBER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +50%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society4× · 2019–2024 · $119k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- MHMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION - CLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2021 · $30k
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
- MGMASS GOLF ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milton Animal League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 80 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Sea Meadow Marine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STACHESTRONG INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Ludes Family Foundation · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Fortunatus Foundation · Miller Foundation · The Quarterdeck Foundation · The Croll Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity 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 Rubenstein Family Trust 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.