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Private foundation (trust)EIN 134091650Est. 2000-10

THE DOROTHEA AND LEO RABKIN FOUNDATION

SOUTH PORTLAND, ME 04106

Total Assets

$25.1M

FY 2023

Annual Giving

$583K

FY 2023

Grants Made

34

FY 2023

Avg Grant

$17K

FY 2023

Grant Range

$1K–$51K

Typical

Deadlines

Applications

Programs & Activities

Program 1

$746K

Visual arts journalism prize program in which a panel of nominators put forth candidates for awards based on past achievements; each candidate submits writing samples of previously published work (within the last 3 years) and a brief curriculum vita. Recipients are chosen by a jury of nationally recognized curators, writers, artists, and other thoughtful readers of contemporary art criticism.

Program 2

$317K

Expenditures relating to cataloguing, storing, conserving and displaying the abstract and american folk art collections, to include promoting the visual arts through exhibitions, caring for and maintaining the art collection, sharing the collection with students and the general public, and maintaining an archive of data about the collection and the rabkins' lives for use by scholars and researchers.

Focus Areas

Private Independent Foundations

Financial Snapshot

2023 filing

Total Revenue

$1.2M

Total Expenses

$1.2M

Qualifying Distributions

$1.1M

Distributable Amount

$1.1M

Min. Investment Return

$1.1M

Undistributed Income

$331K

Payout rate 97%Arc chart showing what share of IRS distributable amount was paid out as qualifying distributions in the latest filing.97%

Payout rate

Qualifying distributions as a share of distributable amount.

Grant Range

34 grants

Grant sizes from minimum $1K through median $8K to maximum $51K, shown on a logarithmic scale.

Logarithmic scale — typical grant portfolios span orders of magnitude, so distances are proportional to multiplicative change, not dollar gaps.

Giving Over Time

6 years

Giving over time from 2017 to 2023. Peak $698K in 2019. Hover bars for details.

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

146 grants

GREG ALLEN
$51K
1 grant
SIDDHARTHA MITTER
$51K
1 grant
EMILY WATLINGTON
$51K
1 grant
THOMAS LAWSON
$51K
1 grant
ROBIN GIVHAN
$51K
1 grant
CASSIE PACKARD
$51K
1 grant
HRAG VARTANIAN
$51K
1 grant
TK SMITH
$51K
1 grant

Grant Size Distribution

146 grants

<$10K
73
grants
$10–50K
31
grants
$50–250K
42
grants
$250K–1M
$1–5M
$5M+

Geographic Focus

27 states

New York
$1.0M
30% of total
California
$461K
14% of total
Texas
$226K
7% of total
Maine
$178K
5% of total
Illinois
$173K
5% of total
Georgia
$172K
5% of total
Massachusetts
$155K
5% of total
District of Columbia
$137K
4% of total
Pennsylvania
$104K
3% of total
Florida
$103K
3% of total

+17 more states

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