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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MORNING STAR MISSION$40,000
WILL-GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC$40,000
DEBORAH'S PLACE$30,000
FRIENDS OF WILL COUNTY CAC$20,000
CLOVE ALLIANCE$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS$10,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER$10,000
RECLAIM13$10,000
CRISIS NURSERY$10,000
STEPPING STONES TREATMENT CENTER$10,000
WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER$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 (FY24–25, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $50k → 7%LIGHTWAYS HOSPICE AND SERIOUS ILLNESS CARE: $300k → 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
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.
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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 & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • 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%
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
Chances & Changes Inc

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

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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…

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc; 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

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $300,000 · Human ServicesJoliet Area Community Hospice CorpMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INCMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INCTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $66,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYWaterleaf Women's Center Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $110,000 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICESFRIENDS OF WILL COUNTY CAC: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF WILL COUNTY CAC+5 more: $35,000 · Other+5 moreWILL 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 & LegalSTEPPING STONES INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Friendship Center: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$568,500Other$365,000Health$70,000Housing & Shelter$52,500Crime & Legal$40,000Community Improvement$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

AbbVie FoundationUnited Way of Will Co…George M Eisenberg Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    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, 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.

    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 22 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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