Glenn and Eva Dubin

SOURCE OF WEALTH: Highbridge Capital Management

FUNDING AREAS: Health Care, Arts & Culture, NYC Community

OVERVIEW: Glenn Dubin is a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, the largest poverty fighting organization in New York City, and is also on the board of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and the Mount Sinai Hospital. He and Eva also have their own family foundation, the G. & E. Dubin Family Foundation. Available tax filings indicate that the foundation awarded around $2.7 million in grants in 2017.

BACKGROUND: Glenn Dubin grew up in Manhattan, the son of Jewish immigrants, and attended Stony Brook University on Long Island, getting his degree in economics. He began his career on Wall Street as a retail stockbroker for E.F. Hutton & Co. before starting Dubin & Swieca, and then Highbridge Capital Management. JP Morgan Chase purchased a majority interested in Highbridge in 2004, and retained Dubin to manage its now $27 billion in assets. Dubin's wife, Eva Andersson, is a medical doctor, originally from Sweden. 

ISSUES:

EDUCATION: Dubin is a major donor to his alma mater, Stony Brook University, having shelled out $4.3 million to help construct the Dubin Family Athletic Performance Center, and another $5 million to go towards a new Indoor Training Center. He has also given $5 million to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to create the Dubin Fellowship for Emerging Leaders, and his wife is a board member of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and the Trinity School in Manhattan, presumably where one or more of their children attended. Sums have also gone to Riverdale Country School, where the couple belong to the Tower Society, recognizing some of the school's most generous donors.

HEALTH: The Dubins have given millions to Mount Sinai Hospital, where Dubin is a trustee, helping to found the Dubin Breast Center there. Andersson-Dubin, who is an in-house physician at NBC, is a breast cancer survivor, and has devoted herself to promoting research and care. She also sits on the board of the Alliance for Lupus Research and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which is dedicated to curing Parkinson’s disease.

NYC COMMUNITY: As a founding member of the Robin Hood Foundation. Available tax filings indicate that the foundation has awarded Robin Hood over $3.7 million in grants from 2004 to 2016.

ARTS & CULTURE: Dubin is on the board of the Museum of Modern Art, though if he has been doing any giving there recently, he has done so quietly. Dubin also made the list on ARTNews’s Top 200 Collectors in 2012.

LOOKING FORWARD: Though Dubin signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, we still have not seen much of an effort from him. Though Dubin is known to do much of his giving outside of his family foundation, his giving has been sporadic at best. With nearly a billion to give away to fulfill his pledge, we should start seeing larger chunks go out the door soon.

CONTACT:  

G. & E. Dubin Family Foundation

c/o Daniel DePaoli, WTAS, LLC

1177 Avenue Of The Americas 18th Floor

New York, NY 10036 

(203) 987-3662 

(646) 213-5100 

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