Description: A smaller (under $100 million assets) but key foundation in domestic and global anti-corporate and anti-capitalist grantmaking.

Problem: Created Institute for Policy Studies, America's most notorious left-wing think tank. Created Transnational Institute in The Netherlands to support global anti-capitalist networks. Also funds the Tides Center (4 separate programs) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Background:
The Samuel Rubin Foundation was funded by

Samuel Rubin (1901-1978). His parents brought him from Russia to America as a child.  He became a dedicated socialist, and is reputed to have been a Communist Party member, but had business talent and decided to "play the capitalist game." In 1930 he founded the Spanish Trading Corporation, closing it when Franco took power in Spain. In 1937 he founded Faberge Perfumes and built it from a small specialty shop into a major cosmetic firm.  He established the Samuel Rubin Foundation in 1959 from his personal wealth. In 1963, Rubin sold Faberge for $25 million and gave a portion to his foundation. It has funded legions of anti-capitalist left-wing causes since.

Board members:

President, Cora Weiss, nee Cora Rubin, daughter of Samuel Rubin. Salary, $67,500 Benefits, $6,019.
She was a director of the Samuel Rubin Foundation from its inception. She was also instrumental in the funding decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. Her husband, Peter Weiss, was the first IPS chairman of the board of directors.
She and her husband Peter selected Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet as co-directors of the Institute for Policy Studies. She gained notoriety as a leader of the Vietnam War era anti-American coalitions who traveled to Paris and Hanoi for repeated meetings with communist leaders.
 

Treasurer, Peter Weiss, born in 1925 in Vienna, Austria, is the senior partner of the law firm Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick & Lehrman in New York. His firm specializes in trademark, copyright and international law. Weiss is a prominent member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), a radical anti-capitalist lawyers association organized in 1936. He was chairman of the IPS board of directors from its start in 1963 until the 1990s.

Sample grants given by Samuel Rubin Foundation:

SCHEDULE OF CONTRIBUTIONS PAID FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2001

A J Muste Memorial Institute (for Conciliation Resources) $10,000
A J Muste Memorial Institute (for International Peace Bureau) $50,000
Alliance for Justice $10,000
Americans for Peace Now $40,000
Books for Africa $2,500
Boston Women's Fund $10,000
Bread & Roses Cultural Protect, Inc $10,000
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities Information Fund, Inc $1,000
Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc $50,000
Centre for International Policy, Inc  $20.000
Eldridge Street Project. Inc $1,000
Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc $3,000
City University of New York/NYC Technical College (for Paul Kovi Scholarship Fund) $500
City University of New York School of Law $10,000
Cornell University $13,000
Council on Foundations $1,490
DataCenter $10,000
Daytona Beach Community College $4,750
Decade of Human Rights Inc (for Kensington Welfare Rights Union) $10,000
Doctors of the World $10,000
Downtown Community Television Center $25,000
Eldridge Street Project, Inc. $1,000
Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science (for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) $5,000
Educators for Social Responsibility (for Resolving Conflict Creatively Program)     $15,000
Embry-Riddle Aeronautlcal University       $19,000
Essential Information, Inc (for Independence Media Center) $5,000
Foundation El Taller (for Courts of Women) $3,500
Fourth Freedom Forum $10.000
Fund for Independence Publishing, Inc (for Condor Years, US Alliances and International Terrorism In the Southern Cone) $5,000
Fund for Public Schools. Inc /Community School District 18 $50,000
Global Kids $25,000
Global Policy Forum $6,000
Grassroots International $15,000
Grayston Foundation $25,000
Gun Free South Africa (for 'Dr Death and The Genocide Bug')  $10,000
Hague Appeal for Peace $50,000
Hampshire College $5,000
Independent Documentary Group, Inc $1,221
Institute for Community Economics $10,000
Institute for Policy Studies, Inc $55,000
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, $3,500
Interhemispheric Resource Center $20,000
International Alert (for International Action Network on Small Arms) $10,000
International Forum on Globalization $2,000
International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, Inc. $10,000
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (for Middle Powers Initiative) $10,000
Internews (for “Genocide on Trial, Bringing Justice Home to Rwandans”) $10,000
Jane Addams Peace Association (for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) $15,000
Kid’s Space Foundation $10,000
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Inc. $41,000
Lebanese American University (for International Institute on Peace Education  Conference) $6,000
Library of Congress $40,000
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives $5,000
MADRE (for Federation des femmes du Quebec) $10,000
Marijuana Policy Project Foundation $10,000
Merklejohn Civil Liberties Institute $5,000
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation $5,000
National Lawyers Guild Foundation $5,000
New York City Board of Education/Richmond Hill High School $50,000
New York City Foundation for the Arts (for “American Roots Music”) $5,000
New Israel Fund (for B'Tselem) $3,500
New Israel Fund (for Middle East Children's Association) $10,000
New Israel Fund (for Public Committee Against Torture in Israel) $2,500
New School University (for World Policy Institute) $13,500
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (for Abolition 2000 Global Network) $1,500
Peaceworkers $23,500
Physicians for Human Rights $3,500
Public Media, Inc (for "Battle for Broad") $3,000
Public Media, Inc (for "Global Poverty Comes Home") $2,000
Public Media, Inc (for "Building the House of Peace") $35,000
Progressive Foundation, Inc $5,000
Radiation and Public Health Project, Inc $1000
Regents of the University of California (for The Emma Goldman Papers Project) $10,000
Rights Action, Inc (for The Community Museum of Rabinal) $10,000
South Africa Development Fund, Inc $15,000
South Africa Partners (for Architectural Artworks Programme) $20,000
Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc $1,000
St John's Cottage $10,500
The Abortion Access Project Inc $10,000
The Africa Fund $15,000
The Development GAP (for Centro de Estudios lnternacionales) $9,700
The DMZ Zone, Inc $500
The Employment Project $2,500
The Foundation Center $1,000
The Nation Institute (for “Stealing the Fire”) $5,000
The Preamble Center on Public Policy (for “Uprising”)  $15,000
The Trauma Foundation (for Gun Policy Research Project) $5,000
Theatre For A New Audience $10,000
The Tides Center (for International Human Rights Funders Group) $3,500
The Tides Center (for Minuteman Media) $12,000
The Tides Center (for Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security) $10,000
The Tides Center (for TRAC-Transnational Resource and Action Center) $15,000
Transnational Institute $150,000
Trustees for Columbia University (for The Council of Elders) $15,000
Union Theological Seminary $15,000
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (for CENZONTLE-Center for Democratic Participation & Development) $5,000
University of Fort Hare/0liver Tambo Human Rights Center $10,000
U S Catholic Conference (for "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds") $15,000
U S Charities Aid Foundation (for People & Planet Trust) $10,000
U S /Israel Women to Women (for Coalition of Women for a Just Peace) $7,000
V-Day $2,000
Vineyard House, Inc $5,000
Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund $2,500
World Order Models Project, Inc $5,000

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