How much does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation give?

The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $515,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 84 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Animals (18%), Education (14%).

Who are The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Window to the World Communications Inc ($352k), Benedictine Sisters of Chicago ($214k), Pepperdine University ($139k).

Does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation based?

The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation is based in IL.

The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation

The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$516k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$65k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MAnimals$738kEducation$568kReligion$280kHuman Services$199kPublic Benefit$141kHealth$121kRecreation & Sports$112kOther$0

02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $141k
$10k–50k18 grants · $310k
$50k–250k1 grant · $65k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Window to the World Communications	$65,000
GIVE DIRECTLY INC	$40,000
WBEZ	$30,000
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago	$25,000
Pet Friendly Services	$25,000
University of Denver	$20,250
Northwestern University (Medill Student Experience	$20,000
Illinois Holocaust Museum	$20,000
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's	$15,000
Evanston Roundtable Media NFP	$15,000
Pepperdine University	$15,000
FIDO INC	$15,000
WDCB COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION	$10,000
Touched by an Animal Inc	$10,000
URBAN INITIATIVES	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 112 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

112 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$4.0M

$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+25%

Still filing today

54%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

WT
WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $352k · revenue +16%
PU
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +51%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +33%

Funded once

AS
Adlei Stevenson Center for Democracy
one grant, 2020 · $10k
CC
CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
RA
Rural Animal Rescue Effort
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +14%

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.

04Its 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.

Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals

Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals

The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education

Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Racine Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…

Animals

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outrider 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

96 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. 96 of the 180 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

94/96

Grantees still filing

71/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,993,423Arts & Culture$803,911Education$472,454Animals$421,068Human Services$160,859Recreation & Sports$119,062Civil Rights$88,000

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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL31.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Lilly Endowment Inc · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Northwestern University

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 The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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