Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Rubenstein 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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,518
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations The Rubenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 7 | $32k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $74k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $297k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $257k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $266k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $568k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $315k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $3,108,586 | 7 | 0% |
| Trustees of the Lawrenceville School | $261,710 | 7 | 0% |
| Kimmel Center Inc | $129,753 | 3 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $100,088 | 1 | 0% |
| Curtis Institute of Music | $77,180 | 3 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $51,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Pennsylvania Ballet Association | $37,468 | 5 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($652k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rubenstein Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Susquehanna Foundation · Tzedakah Foundation · The Specter Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
About The Rubenstein Foundation
- How much does The Rubenstein Foundation give?
- The Rubenstein Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $31,518 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Rubenstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Health (10%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are The Rubenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duke University ($3.1M), Trustees of the Lawrenceville School ($262k), Kimmel Center Inc ($130k).
- Does The Rubenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rubenstein 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 Rubenstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Rubenstein Foundation based?
- The Rubenstein Foundation is based in PA.
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