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Rubino 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.

$686k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Health$433kHuman Services$199kHousing & Shelter$135kFood & Nutrition$90kCrime & Legal$40kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTWAYS HOSPICE AND SERIOUS ILLNESS CARE$300,000
GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES$80,000
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS$50,000
THE NIGHT MINISTRY$46,000
WILL-GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC$40,000
MORNING STAR MISSION$40,000
DEBORAH'S PLACE$30,000
FRIENDS OF WILL COUNTY CAC$20,000
WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER$10,000
CRISIS NURSERY$10,000
CLOVE ALLIANCE$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS$10,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER$10,000
STEPPING STONES TREATMENT CENTER$10,000
RECLAIM13$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $50k → 7%HOMESTRETCH: $3k → 4%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERA: $30k → 7%WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION: $40k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $46k → 14%WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION: $30k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%TRINITY SERVICES: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$476k · 7 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$476k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +30%
  • DP
    DEBORAH'S PLACE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • WW
    Waterleaf Women's Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WILL COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    TRINITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

2
The Center for Women and Families Inc

To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.

Human Services
3
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…

Human Services
4
Crisis Center for South Suburbia

The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence while addressing the societal issues contributing…

Human Services
5
The Center for Women and Children in Crisis

Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Health
6
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter

Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
7
The Family Crisis Intervention Center of Region V Inc

The center's mission is to advocate and support social change that will result in non-violent relationships, homes and communities through public education, direct services, a haven and programs related to the issues of domestic and sexual…

8
The Dwelling Place

The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.

Human Services
9
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

10
Family Crisis Shelter Inc

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse

Human Services
11
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
12
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waterleaf Women's Center 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
6/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIGHTWAYS HOSPICE AND SERIOUS ILLNESS CARE — $300,000 · OtherLIGHTWAYS HOSPICE AND SERIOUS ILLNESS CAREIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $110,000 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES+6 more — $55,000 · Other+6 moreMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELES…MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesMORNING STAR MISSION MINIST…THE NIGHT MINISTRY — $66,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYWaterleaf Women's Center Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesWaterleaf Women's Center In…TRINITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY SERVICES INC+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC — $70,000 · HealthDEBORAH'S PLACE — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterACCESS HOUSING INC (DC) — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE WILL COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCOMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Friendship Center — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSTEPPING STONES INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$665,000Human Services$268,500Health$70,000Housing & Shelter$52,500Crime & Legal$40,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $66,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWaterleaf Women's Center Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WILL COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTRINITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomestretch Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS HOUSING INC (DC) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Will County · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Rubino Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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