· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $466k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| J WORTHAM | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $16,500 |
| ARTADIA | $15,000 |
| INDIGO ARTS ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM4× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +84%
- UOUnion of Maine Visual Artists Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue ×17 · 36% of their budget
- IAIndigo Arts Alliance5× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +329%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $51k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $51k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $51k
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.
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.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 221 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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