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The Rabinowitz Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Rabinowitz Charitable 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$144kReligion$36kEducation$13kCivil Rights$10kFood & Nutrition$6kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$5,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY$5,000
BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB$2,500
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS$2,500
NO KID HUNGRY - SHARE OUR STRENGTH$2,000
CITY HARVEST$2,000
SPARROWS NEST$1,500
RED HOOK RESPONDS$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE READING TEAM: $1k → 17%READING TEAM INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$188k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+39%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyReligionHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • HF
    Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center
    2× · 2019–2020 · $74k · revenue +21%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +31%
  • PS
    POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • BM
    BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • OO
    OPERA ON TAPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +113%
  • SM
    STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +70%
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.

1
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
2
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
4
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
11
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc

Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…

Arts & Culture
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Red Hook Responds Incorporated. 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $73,948 · Arts & CultureHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art CenterPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $28,000 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAAMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS INCTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY+3 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $36,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S A…PENCIL INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNO KID HUNGRY - SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,000 · OtherNO KID HU…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividua…STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 · OtherMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherSOUTHERN …CITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 · OtherCITY HARV…SPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $1,500 · OtherSPARROW'S…BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC: $2,500 · OtherBROOKLYN …READING TEAM INC: $2,000 · OtherREADING T…+2 more: $1,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$144,448Religion$36,000Philanthropy$12,000Other$20,000Environment$5,000International$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $73,948 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $28,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPENCIL INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA ON TAP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREADING TEAM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…Opera America IncThe Hyde and Watson F…The Andrew W Mellon F…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Opera America Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Rabinowitz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rabinowitz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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