Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
A New York foundation that treats art as a cornerstone of just communities, using grants and its own gallery to put socially engaged artmaking at the center of the fight for equity.
Peer societies
Five societies Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation is read alongside.
AF
Alphawood Foundation
A Chicago private foundation working for an equitable, just and humane society, funding social justice, LGBTQ…
OF
Overbrook Foundation
A family foundation active since 1948 that funds human rights and the environment, backing leaders who push…
TF
Teiger Foundation
A contemporary art funder honoring collector David Teiger by backing curators directly, supporting…
SF
SURDNA Foundation
A family foundation established in 1917 and stewarded across five generations of the Andrus family, directing…
WF
Wyncote Foundation
A Philadelphia foundation founded in 2009 from Haas family trusts, strengthening culture, community, and the…
Who backs SDRF
No public supporter list found as of September 2026.
The outside view
A New York foundation that treats art as a cornerstone of just communities, using grants and its own gallery to put socially engaged artmaking at the center of the fight for equity.
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Their shape
The Movement
Gathered around a cause, and built to move.
The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.
Also reads toward The Frontier and The Citadel.
Strengths
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