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Rubinbrown Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$232kCommunity Improvement$164kEmployment$93kPhilanthropy$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kFood & Nutrition$16kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$42,500
NABA INC$12,000
UNLV FOUNDATION$10,500
ASSOCIATION OF LATINO PROFESSIONALS FOR AMERICA$10,000
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY TREE INC: $3k → 7%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $1k → 14%PROJECT 150: $2k → 13%ELMINGTON ELEVATES: $500 → 14%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $3k → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $1k → 11%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

IL
NV
IN
CO
MO
MD
KS
TN
TX
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$415k · 16 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
40

Total granted

$415k
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +184%
  • SL
    St Louis Police Foundation
    2× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +61%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • RB
    REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROBERT J TRULASKE SR COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
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
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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3
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
11
Augustana College

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…

Education
12
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 58 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)
44/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherMOCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $53,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC: $48,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INCRUBINBROWN FACULTY SCHOLAR FUND AT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $30,000 · OtherRUBINBROWN FACULTY SCHOLAR FUND AT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOUR…UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROBERT J TRULASKE SR COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $21,052 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROBERT J TRULASKE SR COLLEGE OF B…UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS: $21,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUISASSOCIATION OF LATINO PROFESSIONALS FOR AMERICA: $20,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF LATINO PROFESSIONALS FOR AMERICAEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE MISSOURI SOCIETY OF CPA'S: $15,000 · OtherST LOUIS ART FAIR: $15,000 · Other+19 more: $50,000 · Other+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $42,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LA…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO …ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITYBenedictine College: $20,000 · EducationBenedictine CollegeUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois …+4 more: $5,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH U…THE HOME BUILDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOME BU…+4 more: $4,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL: $50,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL B…URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN NEIG…REBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $2,500 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,500 · Community ImprovementSt Louis Police Foundation: $51,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHREE SQUARE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE STORE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 · Human ServicesELMINGTON ELEVATES INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$338,052Education$138,500Philanthropy$69,000Community Improvement$60,000Public Safety & Disaster$51,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Human Services$9,000

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 budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $53,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $51,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC: $48,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOME BUILDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNAMI SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE COCPA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIOSTL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Black Accountants St Louis: $2,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEGAS STRONG FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR ONE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMINGTON ELEVATES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Berges Family Foundat…Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Millstone FoundationSt Louis Service Bure…Trio Foundation of St…
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rubinbrown Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rubinbrown Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rubinbrown Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rubinbrown Charitable 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 58 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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