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Sophie and David Rubin Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
15
Organizations funded FY2021
80%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 15
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 80% of the organizations Sophie and David Rubin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202115$21k80%
FY202014$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$12kReligion$9kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$5kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Leffell School$7,5001n/a
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$6,00020%
The Academy for Jewish Religion$3,50020%
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus$3,00010%
The Columbus Jewish Day School$2,50010%
Marburn Academy$1,50010%
Surprise Lake Camp$1,00010%
Temple Israel$1,0001n/a
Finca International Inc$50010%
Project Ezra$50010%
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All grantees of Sophie and David Rubin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Leffell School$7,5001n/a
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$6,00020%
The Academy for Jewish Religion$3,50020%
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus$3,00010%
The Columbus Jewish Day School$2,50010%
Marburn Academy$1,50010%
Surprise Lake Camp$1,00010%
Temple Israel$1,0001n/a
Finca International Inc$50010%
Project Ezra$50010%
Hias Inc$50010%
Dorot Inc$50010%
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind$30010%
Midnight Run Inc$25010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$20010%
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation$10010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sophie and David Rubin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Academy for Jewish Religion: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Columbus Jewish Day School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarburn Academy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurprise Lake Camp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFinca International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHias Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidnight Run Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Sophie and David Rubin Foundation

How much does Sophie and David Rubin Foundation give?
Sophie and David Rubin Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $21,050 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Sophie and David Rubin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (29%), Religion (22%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
Who are Sophie and David Rubin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: The Leffell School ($8k), MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ($6k), The Academy for Jewish Religion ($4k).
Does Sophie and David Rubin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sophie and David 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 Sophie and David Rubin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Sophie and David Rubin Foundation based?
Sophie and David Rubin Foundation is based in NJ.

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 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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