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Rubinbrown Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $42,500 |
| NABA INC | $12,000 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF LATINO PROFESSIONALS FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS3× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +184%
- SLSt Louis Police Foundation2× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +61%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -21%
- RBREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROBERT J TRULASKE SR COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2023 · $21k
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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 42 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 58 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE COCPA ↗
- Who funds THE HOME BUILDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIOSTL ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Association of Black Accountants St Louis ↗
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: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Berges Family Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Millstone Foundation · St Louis Service Bureau Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis
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 Rubinbrown Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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