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The Rubin Family 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.

$437k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$557kPhilanthropy$372kReligion$320kArts & Culture$153kFood & Nutrition$31kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $370k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$160,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN HOSPTIAL$150,000
JUDAISM ALIVE$60,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$15,000
WASHINGTON UNVERSITY OF MO$10,000
BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
UNIVERSITY OF IL FOUNDATION$5,000
NOURISH$5,000
FATHERS AMD FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS$4,600
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SAUL MIROWITZ DAY SCHOOL$1,800
COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC$1,100
MOOG CENTER FOR DEAF$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC ASSOC OF NORTH AMERICA: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY LINK: $25k → 16%THE LEGACY: $2k → 5%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $1k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%ST LOUIS ARC: $1k → 11%FATHERS AMD FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 21%FATHERS AMD FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 21%ST LOUIS ARC: $6k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $500 → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $500 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $500 → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST LOUIS - JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 71 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
72

Total granted

$3.0M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+40%

Still filing today

37%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • JA
    JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO
    4× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +122%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +86%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $116k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $111k · revenue -47%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $72k
  • US
    UCSF - SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2022 · $59k
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
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy
4
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
9
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis; the most unlike its peers is Dirk Nowitzki Foundation. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 56 of the 152 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
43/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JCRC: $463,300 · OtherJCRCMIOSHE HOUSE: $253,000 · OtherMIOSHE HOUSEPROVIDENCE SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $160,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITALST LOUIS CHILDREN HOSPTIAL: $150,000 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDREN HOSPTIALMARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherJF & CS SAN FRANCISCO: $103,750 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAARE EMETH: $90,300 · Other+101 more: $1,201,889 · Other+101 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $285,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATIO…American Heart Association Inc: $95,000 · HealthAmerican Hear…Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc: $60,500 · HealthDoctor Marnie…MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL…ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO: $165,000 · EducationJUDAISM ALI…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $115,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $110,646 · EducationUNIVERSITY …University of Illinois Foundation: $17,000 · Education+8 more: $29,970 · Education+8 moreGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $118,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LINK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $15,200 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $9,500 · Human Services+6 more: $23,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $98,093 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St Louis: $81,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $48,000 · PhilanthropyClayton Education Foundation: $11,800 · Philanthropy+2 more: $8,600 · PhilanthropySt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $46,500 · Arts & CultureCRAFT ALLIANCE: $21,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMOISHE HOUSE: $56,450 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $27,000 · Religion
Other$2,557,239Health$521,000Education$438,116Human Services$266,300Philanthropy$248,093Arts & Culture$125,500Religion$83,450

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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $285,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO: $165,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $118,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $115,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $110,646 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $98,093 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of St Louis: $81,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetDoctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc: $60,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $56,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $48,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $46,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRAFT ALLIANCE: $21,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $15,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetClayton Education Foundation: $11,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $10,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP: $6,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREADY READERS: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc: $5,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Impact Fund: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROOM TO READ: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Legacy at Home Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClayton Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenville College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL FESTIVALS: $500 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗

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.

Staenberg Family FoundationMO22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Staenberg Family Foundation · Millstone Foundation · Kahn Memorial Trust · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Milford & Lee Bohm Charitable Foundation · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Gallop Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Rubin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rubin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 152 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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