Maine · Private foundation
The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin 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.
- $651k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 26
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 75 | $643k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $572k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $507k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $542k | 87% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $563k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $698k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $480k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $463k | 92% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Folk Art Museum | $63,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Abstract Artists Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 71% |
| Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 36% |
| Indigo Arts Alliance | $40,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Brooklyn Rail Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc | $35,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Burnaway Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $26,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Glasstire | $21,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia | $20,200 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 183 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Maine Initiativesinc · Maine Humanities Council · Rdk Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation with peer funders
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About The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation
- How much does The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation give?
- The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $650,686 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Philanthropy (1%), Education (0%).
- Who are The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Folk Art Museum ($63k), American Abstract Artists Inc ($55k), Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc ($43k).
- Does The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin 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 The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc.
- Where is The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation based?
- The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation is based in ME.
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