Texas · Private foundation
Rubenstein 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.
- $388k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $149,501
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Rubenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $378k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $549k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.1M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $2.0M | 88% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $450k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evelyn's Park Conservancy | $4,344,702 | 7 | 93% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bellaire Police & Fire Foundation | $196,065 | 3 | 70% |
| The Fay School | $50,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Police Foundation | $32,136 | 2 | 1% |
| Temple Shalom | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanu El | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evelyn's Park Conservancy | $4,344,702 | 7 | 93% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bellaire Police & Fire Foundation | $196,065 | 3 | 70% |
| The Fay School | $50,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Police Foundation | $32,136 | 2 | 1% |
| Temple Shalom | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanu El | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Advocates Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Yeshurun | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Opheart | $5,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Trees For Houston | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Briarwood School | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Heroes for Children | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Immune Deficiency Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunnyside Place CDC | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Montrose Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($693k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rubenstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Rubenstein Foundation
- How much does Rubenstein Foundation give?
- Rubenstein Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $387,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rubenstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (75%), Health (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
- Who are Rubenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Evelyn's Park Conservancy ($4.3M), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($250k), Bellaire Police & Fire Foundation ($196k).
- Does Rubenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rubenstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rubenstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Rubenstein Foundation based?
- Rubenstein Foundation is based in TX.
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