Barbara N Rubin Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA · EIN 77-0551902. Reported 168 grants totalling $653,260 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Barbara N Rubin Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $160,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anacapa School | Santa Barbara, CA | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ecpat-USA | Brooklyn, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Peoples Self Help Housing | Santa Barbara, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pact | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Critical Mass Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Direct Relief International | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sacramento Children's Museum | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Albany Museum of Art | Albany, GA | $17,260 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of California Coast | Goleta, CA | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sansum Clinic | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Wilderness Youth Project | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hillside House | Santa Barbara, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| California Associations Student Councils | Portola Valley, CA | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Presbyterian Peace Fellowship | Stony Point, NY | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinic | Santa Barbara, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Am Friends of Neve Shalomwahatal-Salam | Glendale, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CASA Serena | Fremont, CA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Explore Ecology | Santa Barbara, CA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pathpoint | Santa Barbara, CA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Camp Ocean Pines | Cambria, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CASA Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara, CA | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood Ca Central Coast | Santa Barbara, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| See Internation | Goleta, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Story Teller Children's Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Vna Health | Santa Barbara, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Project Hope | Hagerstown, MD | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Domestic Violence Solutions | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara | Santa Maria, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Sb Library | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hidden Harvest | Coachella, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Imperial Valley Food | El Centro, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Living Waters for the World | Spring Hill, TN | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mothers Helperswomens Fund of Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam | Glendale, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wildnerness Youth Project | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Visiting Nurse and Hospice | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Leading From Within | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mental Wellness Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Neal Taylor Nature Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Transition House | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Unity Shop | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Womens Alliance for Theology Ethics | Silver Spring, MD | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| California Associations of Student Councils | Campbell, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cambodia Arts & Scholarship | Santa Barbara, CA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mayan Hans | Santa Barbara, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Partners in Housing Solutions | Santa Barbara, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Safe House Project | Alexandria, VA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Transitions Mental Health Association | San Louis Obispo, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Calm | Portola Valley, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cambodia Arts & Scholarship | Portland, ME | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Child Abuse Listening Mediation | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Children & Family Rescue Services | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Villa Majella of Sb | Goleta, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| CASA of Kern Co | Bakersfield, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Barbara Promotes Network | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
48 of 57 (84%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Anacapa School
SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN - Ecpat-USA
SUPPORT ELIMINATION OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD - Pact
PREVENT HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN. - Girl Scouts of California Coast
TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CAMPERSHIPS - Peoples Self Help Housing
TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES. - Albany Museum of Art
SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 82 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 41 | $155,760 | $2,000 |
| 2021 | 48 | $144,000 | $2,000 |
| 2022 | 42 | $260,500 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 37 | $93,000 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 77% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Barbara N Rubin Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 224 E Mission Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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