· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evelyn's Park Conservancy | $149,501 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,766 |
| The Fay School | $25,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Temple Shalom | $10,000 |
| The Jewish Federation | $10,000 |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $10,000 |
| The Chai House of Dallas | $10,000 |
| The Holocaust Museum Houston | $10,000 |
| Congregation Emanu El | $7,000 |
| Congregation Beth Yeshurun | $5,000 |
| The EmeryWeiner School | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +8%
- BPBELLAIRE POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $196k · revenue +10% · 70% of their budget
- TFThe Fay School4× · 2022–2025 · $51k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MAMD Anderson Cancer Center2× · 2023–2024 · $250k
- EREvelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston4× · 2021–2024 · $25k
- SCStephens Collegeone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Support holocaust museum houston financially in educating people about the holocaust, remembering the 6 million jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The mission of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation is to enhance the broad healthcare mission of the Harris Health System by soliciting and raising funds for programs and increasing the community's awareness of the Harris Health…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 Evelyn's Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLAIRE POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Fay School ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds OPHEART ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE PLACE CDC ↗
- Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rubenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rubenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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