· Private foundation
Aaron Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Associatio | $5,000 |
| Bakersfield Mem Hospital Found | $1,000 |
| Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc | $700 |
| The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +85%
- BABakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +48%
- TMTHE MONDAY CLUBHOUSE CONSERVANCY3× · 2017–2024 · $600 · revenue +86%
Funded once
- KCKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +22%
- ACAfrican Childrens Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +48%
- GOGlenn or Cheryl Mockone grant, 2018 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of art and history was founded in 1996 to promote a greater understanding of contemporary art and the history of santa cruz county. its mission is to bring people together through art and local history to explore our diverse…
The museum offers a variety of public tours, educational events, lectures, field trips and exhibits that promote the increased knowledge and appreciation of the cultural and natural history of the upper mojave desert.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
Art matters: we enrich our community by using art as a doorway to deeper insight and connection.
The bowers museum enriches lives through the world's finest arts and cultures.
The mission of the arts council of kern is to provide support and promote arts access, advocacy, and education for all kern county residents and vistors. we are a 501(c)(3) non profit organization and are the designated local arts agency…
Amoca believes clay is magic. it is a simple yet extraordinary material from which artistic masterpieces are created and everyday products are made. from dinnerware to sculpture to cell phone chips and cosmetics, clay is a part of…
To inspire our community and visitors to enjoy, value and conserve wildlife and natural areas through art. we provide artistic, educational and field experiences of nature for that purpose.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
The museum is dedicated to demonstrating mankind's ability to enhance human life through technological innovation by collecting, preserving and exhibiting mechanical and electrical artifacts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern County Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is African Childrens Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds African Childrens Schools ↗
- Who funds THE MONDAY CLUBHOUSE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN ESTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aaron Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Inspire Arts and Music Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.