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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.

$294k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$559kPhilanthropy$553kEducation$468kArts & Culture$143kRecreation & Sports$100kHousing & Shelter$85kHuman Services$80kEnvironment$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$10,000
SEA MEADOW MARINE FOUNDATION$10,000
PARK SCHOOL$10,000
PALM BEACH POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION$6,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$5,000
DEXTER ACADEMY$5,000
BROCKTON VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Rubenstein Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rubenstein Family Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 31 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$1.3M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+54%

Still filing today

74%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +39%
  • DI
    DANA-FARBER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +94%
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society
    4× · 2019–2024 · $119k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • MH
    MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION - CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • TH
    TOBEY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
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
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
10
Wheaton College

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…

Education
11
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
12
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
40/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $550,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITAB…+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $125,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATE…DANA-FARBER INC: $125,000 · OtherDANA-FARBER INCYMCA OLD COLONY BROCKTON: $60,000 · OtherYMCA OLD COLONY BROCKTONCLEVELAND CLINIC: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION - CLEVELAND CLINIC: $30,000 · OtherDEXTER ACADEMY: $25,500 · OtherTOBEY HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherMASS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $25,000 · Other+35 more: $111,100 · Other+35 moreTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $145,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGEPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $103,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL CORPORATIONTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL SCHOOLSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $72,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL T…OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSIT…+6 more: $26,500 · Education+6 moreOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $118,500 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmo…SAIL MAINE: $74,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL MAINE+4 more: $9,940 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $150,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAN…BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthBOB WOODRU…Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $14,500 · Health+5 moreHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $16,500 · EnvironmentSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $16,350 · EnvironmentSea Meadow Marine Foundation: $10,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$551,000Other$611,600Education$446,500Arts & Culture$202,440Health$194,500Housing & Shelter$85,000Environment$50,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $550,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $118,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $103,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $74,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $16,350 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSea Meadow Marine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTACHESTRONG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID ORTIZ CHILDREN'S FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Animal League Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Sea Meadow Marine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
  • Who funds STACHESTRONG INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Ludes Family Foun…Bascom Charitable Fou…Willow Creek Charitab…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Fortunatus Founda…Miller FoundationThe Quarterdeck Found…The Croll FoundationAlvord Family Foundat…Combined Jewish Phila…Fidelity Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rubenstein Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rubenstein Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%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%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home