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Rubio Butterfield Foundation at a glance

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Rubio Butterfield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2023 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MArts & Culture$1.2MPublic Benefit$150kHuman Services$125kInternational$13kYouth Development$2kAnimals$1k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $853k
  • $250k+3 grants · $10M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$215M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKYSTONE FOUNDATION$7,000,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$3,000,000
GALISTEO ART FOUNDATION$442,000
DEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION$204,000
SITE SANTA FE$200,000
ONE FOR DEMOCRACY FUND$150,000
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$148,866
BABY2BABY$100,000
HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH$50,000
THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION$25,000
LITTLE LIONS KENYA INC$25,000
ART PRODUCTION FUND$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
CAF AMERICA$1,270
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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE LIONS KENYA INC: $25k → 16%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
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
OK
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 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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
3
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
4
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
American Friends of the National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation Inc

To encourage appreciation and understanding of the art of portraiture through support of the operations and activities of the national portrait gallery in london and its collaboration with american arts and academic institutions.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Public Art Fund Inc

As the leader in its field, public art fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in new york city and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences…

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10
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Skystone 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
5/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Skystone Foundation Inc: $7,000,000 · OtherSkystone Foundation IncGALISTEO ART FOUNDATION: $692,000 · OtherGALISTEO ART FOUNDATION+2 more: $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTDEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $204,000 · PhilanthropyDEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $26,270 · PhilanthropySITE SANTA FE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUM: $148,866 · Arts & CultureHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureART PRODUCTION FUND INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE LIONS KENYA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $11,500 · InternationalTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $2,444 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $1,010 · Animals
Other$7,942,000Philanthropy$3,230,270Arts & Culture$468,866Human Services$25,000International$11,500Youth Development$2,444Animals$1,010

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 budgetSkystone Foundation Inc: $7,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $204,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $148,866 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBABY2BABY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART PRODUCTION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLITTLE LIONS KENYA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $2,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $1,010 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rubio Butterfield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rubio Butterfield 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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