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The Rubicon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGAPE FOR YOUTH INC | $8,500 |
| LEARNING TREE FARM | $8,500 |
| EMERGE RECOVERY & TRADE INITIATIVE | $8,500 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $8,500 |
| HOUSE OF BREAD | $8,500 |
| CHILD CARE CHOICES | $8,500 |
| BELLBROOK-SUGARCREEK COMMUNITY SUPP | $8,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFAGAPE FOR YOUTH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +0%
- CCCHILD CARE CHOICESINC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +12%
- TLThe Learning Tree Farm Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TRTHERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operation of a Facility for training the severely handicapped to increase thier earning capabilities and to increase opportunities for health and wellness.
Sheltered Living Inc supports the efforts of individuals with intellectual disabilities to achieve independence and actively participate in the community.
Provide therapeutic horsemanship to disabled individuals.
To provide traditional and innovative therapies and recreational opportunities for special needs children in an environment that is family-friendly, to include resources and education for the parents/caregivers.
Therapeutic Lessons Lessons to Children with Developmental Disorders
Organized for the purpose of training and employment of persons with disabilities for various jobs.
Our mission is to provide food training and job placement assistance for individuals with disabilities and/or those seeking to overcome life challenges toward successful employment
Serve Developmentally Disabled and their families in a wide array of program settings.
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
Care Training of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
To house, educate, love, counsel, and care for an average of forty-four children, ages 9 - 17, by working closely with their parents in an effort to reunite the family in a healthy, loving, productive unit that functions well.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Rubicon Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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