California · Nonprofit
RUBICON PROGRAMS INC
RUBICON PROGRAMS INC (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,843,651 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($5,185,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Rubicon Programs Inc does
Mission
Rubicon's mission is to create and deliver integrated solutions to make a positive and lasting impact on people living in poverty and empower people to move out of poverty and improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rubicon's services are based on meeting essential needs financial, human, and social to help people break the cycle of poverty in the east bay. Rubicon addresses these needs by providing services in four domains: 1. Income services that focus on meeting the short-term and long-term employment and career goals through job readiness workshops (resume writing, communication skills, networking, and interviewing), individualized job search services and career planning, and job placements and retention services. (see schedule o for continuation)2. Asset building services, such as financial literacy, asset development, consumer protection, credit repair, and household budgeting. 3. Wellness services, such as access to primary care, wellness education, and behavioral health. 4. Community connections that help participants build personal and professional networks.rubicon also engages in advocacy work to promote policies that foster economic mobility for low-income families. It provides participants with legal services to address additional barriers to employment, such as criminal record remedies, traffic and driver's license issues, and access to public benefits.
$12,372,197 spent77% of program spendingRubicon's supportive services and training program provides support services, job training, and placement services for people who are disabled, homeless and/or low income. Rubicon operates in five cities throughout the east bay.
$3,550,360 spent$5,608,998 earned by the program22% of program spendingHousing programs manages low income housing for people who are disabled, formerly homeless and/or economically disadvantaged. Rubicon operates housing in richmond.
$107,411 spent$110,831 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,029,968.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $9.7M to $13M (+34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 51% · 2019 42% · 2020 54% · 2021 46% · 2022 59% · 2023 57% · 2024 51% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carole Dorham-Kelly
CEO and president
Board chair
Tatiana Ware
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.6M.
15 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $541k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rubicon Enterprises Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RUBICON PROGRAMS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RUBICON PROGRAMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RUBICON PROGRAMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RUBICON PROGRAMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 55% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
65% of RUBICON PROGRAMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of RUBICON PROGRAMS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding RUBICON PROGRAMS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.3M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$28.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$13.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$4.9M
- Department of Labor$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RUBICON PROGRAMS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Rubicon Homes Inc · exempt
- Rubicon Enterprises Inc · exempt
- Rubicon Landscape Corporation · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS INC?
- RUBICON PROGRAMS INC (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,843,651 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($5,185,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUBICON PROGRAMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $24,843,651 in grants to RUBICON PROGRAMS INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUBICON PROGRAMS INC?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUBICON PROGRAMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing