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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.9MHealth$496kArts & Culture$355kPhilanthropy$87kRecreation & Sports$33kYouth Development$31kReligion$22kHuman Services$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$10,518
PROJECT HOME$5,000
LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$5,000
RILEYS URGENT FUND OF FRIENDS$5,000
MILE SQUARE THEATRE$2,500
JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$2,500
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$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 (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC(READ GLOBAL): $2k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 7%JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 31 repeat orgs$509k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$4.4M
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +51%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $130k · revenue +133%
  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PU
    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2019 · $111k
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS - NEUROLOGY DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $101k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +25%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School; the most unlike its peers is Running Start. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,108,586 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $261,710 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL+10 more: $333,390 · Education+10 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE: $296,809 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS U…PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES: $110,560 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVE…JOHNS HOPKINS - NEUROLOGY DEPARTMENT: $101,249 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS -…+35 more: $202,226 · Other+35 moreKIMMEL CENTER INC: $129,753 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $77,180 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $57,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $37,468 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $7,300 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $72,364 · PhilanthropyWISSAHICKON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $22,500 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $19,968 · HealthTHE RACE INC: $12,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · HealthFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC: $29,968 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $17,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $1,125 · Recreation & Sports
Education$3,703,686Other$710,844Arts & Culture$349,201Philanthropy$118,364Health$88,468Youth Development$48,468Recreation & Sports$27,625

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,108,586 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $261,710 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $129,753 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $77,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $76,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $72,364 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $51,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $37,468 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISSAHICKON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC: $29,968 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $28,592 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $19,968 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RACE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILE SQUARE THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $1,125 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRunning Start: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITRS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds WISSAHICKON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…The Neubauer Family F…The Philadelphia Foun…Lincoln Financial Fou…Susquehanna FoundationTzedakah FoundationThe Specter FoundationThe Saramar Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal Fund
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mile Square Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
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 79 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home