New York · Private foundation
Shelley & Donald Rubin 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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2021
- 28
- Grants FY2021
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2021
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $234k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 14% of the organizations Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 28 | $290k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $754k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $900k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $913k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $809k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Himalayan Art Resources Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Queens Museum of Art | $140,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Socrates Sculpture Park Inc | $99,150 | 5 | 2% |
| The Laundromat Project Inc | $83,538 | 4 | 2% |
| Creative Time Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Participant Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Gina Gibney Dance Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Visual AIDS for the Arts Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Friends of Materials for the Arts Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 105 grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($482k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc · Jerome Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
- How much does Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation give?
- Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Environment (3%), Education (2%).
- Who are Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Himalayan Art Resources Inc ($150k), Queens Museum of Art ($140k), Socrates Sculpture Park Inc ($99k).
- Does Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation based?
- Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is based in NY.
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