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Rubin Family 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.

$580k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$8.1MPhilanthropy$2.2MHealth$1.4MEducation$706kArts & Culture$368kRecreation & Sports$360kEnvironment$268kPublic Benefit$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$546k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION$500,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%DEEDLY INC PROJECT RESCUE: $10k → 15%DELIVERING GOOD: $5k → 17%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THORN: $10k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $1k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $1k → 17%GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $93k → 17%GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $62k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 34 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
111

Total granted

$11M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+40%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CJ
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +219%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +79%
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • MI
    MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -56%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +56%
  • MS
    MAMBA SPORTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
4
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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7
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
8
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
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delivering Good Inc; the most unlike its peers is M Night Shyamalan Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 152 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
78/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 · OtherCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $600,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHATLANTICARE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Other+77 more: $2,320,291 · Other+77 moreCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 · Crime & LegalCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATIO…MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INCALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $350,000 · Crime & LegalALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICEFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyFANATICS ALL IN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $355,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATI…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH A…THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $261,525 · Philanthropy+12 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 · HealthMAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $30,000 · HealthHEALTHCORPS INC: $25,000 · Health+13 more: $68,855 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $155,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $125,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $75,000 · Education+8 more: $50,574 · EducationTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $204,772 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $33,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,670,291Crime & Legal$4,350,000Philanthropy$2,026,525Health$518,855Education$505,574Human Services$377,772Arts & Culture$377,000

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 budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $355,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $350,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $204,772 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $33,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN: $25,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALTHCORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Fanatics Charitable F…The Snider FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…The Daniel B and Flor…Connelly FoundationThe Maguire FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Federation of …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The William Penn Foun…
Fanatics Charitable FoundationFL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fanatics Charitable Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William Penn 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 Rubin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rubin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% 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
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Rubin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rubin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 152 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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