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Aaron's Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$380k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
148
Organizations funded FY2023
74%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$275,000
Organizations funded a year
40 to 242
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$237k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 74% of the organizations Aaron's Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$380k83%
FY2023148$641k74%
FY2022242$1.1M88%
FY202140$979k57%
FY202055$3.4M62%
FY201959$1.7M68%
FY2018111$2.2M86%
FY2017225$2.4Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$9.1MEducation$1.7MCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$270kPublic Safety & Disaster$265kHealth$219kPhilanthropy$159kReligion$130kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 292 grantees
All grantees of Aaron's Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$7,420,67151%
Morehouse College$1,168,50060%
Breakthrough Atlanta$196,25030%
Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council$77,37550%
Trevor Project Inc$75,00040%
Desire Street Ministries$75,00032%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc$68,31950%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$57,14020%
Westside Future Fund Inc$50,05030%
Atlanta Police Foundation Inc$45,00020%
Vision Atlanta Inc$43,40041%
Equal Justice Initiative$35,25810%
Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School Inc$35,0001n/a
Latin American Association$30,00030%
Warrick Dunn Charities Inc$29,50042%
Black Girls Code Inc$25,10020%
Georgia Black United Fund Inc$25,1001n/a
Next Level Empowerment Center$25,0001n/a
North Georgia Angel House Inc$25,00021%
National Black Child Development Institute$25,00011%
March of Dimes Inc$25,00010%
Elderheart Inc$25,00011%
Boys and Girls Country of Houston Inc$21,00030%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$20,61170%
East Lake Foundationinc$20,00020%
Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc$16,25041%
Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc$16,00021%
Feedmore Western New York Inc$15,30010%
Many Mansions$15,00010%
Lulac Institute Inc$15,00010%
Boots for Troops$12,50011%
Veterans Empowerment Organization of Georgia$12,50010%
Cindys Hope Chest$12,5002n/a
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc$12,00031%
Agape Community Center$12,00030%
LaAmistad Inc$11,00021%
Girls Inc of the Valley$11,00010%
Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Inc$10,00010%
Many Mansions Inc$10,00013%
Apro Charitable Foundation$10,00024%
Jason Witten S C O R E Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$10,00010%
Junior Achievement of Georgia$10,00010%
Dr Shalon Maternal Action Project Inc$10,00014%
Atlanta Speech School Inc$10,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc$10,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of North Louisiana Inc$10,00010%
PowerMyLearning Inc$10,00010%
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc$7,52010%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$7,50020%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$7,18020%
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School$7,00010%
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc$6,98720%
Breakthrough T1d$6,50020%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$6,05020%
Sisters by Choice Inc$6,00013%
Better Day Givings Inc$6,0002n/a
Brevard College Corporation$5,50020%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance$5,00010%
Safehaven of Tarrant County$5,00020%
Wake for Warriors Inc$5,0001n/a
Sam Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Fernbank Inc$5,00010%
Odyssey Inc$5,0001n/a
Dillard University$5,00010%
Upstate Warrior Solution Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Magnolia Inc$5,00011%
Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc$5,00010%
Atlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated$5,00011%
The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families Inc$5,00010%
His Bridgebuilders Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint$5,00010%
Greater Atlanta Christian Schools Inc$4,95020%
Canine Assistants Inc$4,00020%
Berkshire Dream Center Discipleship Program Inc$4,0001n/a
Emory University$4,00040%
The Center for Student Missions$4,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$3,90030%
Charter System Foundation Inc$3,50021%
Must Ministries Inc$3,05030%
Hub City Roots$3,00010%
One Heart For Women and Children Inc$3,00010%
Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc$3,00010%
K9s for Warriors Inc$3,00010%
Onboard Inc$3,00012%
The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy Inc$3,00030%
Women Moving on Inc Womens Resource Center to End Dv$3,00020%
Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$2,95040%
Unbound$2,68850%
Let's Get Ready Inc$2,50010%
Terrie Hess Child Advocacy Center$2,50010%
North Little League Inc$2,5001n/a
Trees Atlanta Inc$2,05030%
Project 658 Inc$2,00010%
Queen of Angels Catholic Elementary$2,0004n/a
Youthcentric Inc$2,0001n/a
Coffee County Quarterback Club$2,00011%
Youth Revive$2,00011%
Bogies for the Brave Inc$2,0002n/a
National Down Syndrome Society$2,0001n/a
Gallipolis Junior Womans Club$2,0001n/a
The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc$2,00020%
Peace Restored Inc$2,00011%
Suzannah Smiles$2,00012%
Ptsd Foundation of America$2,00010%
Safe Alliance Inc$2,00010%
The University of Georgia Foundation$1,75020%
Samual Zion Foundation$1,5001n/a
Cassell Athletics$1,5001n/a
New Mexico Veterans Integration Centers$1,50010%
Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona$1,50010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region$1,50010%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$1,50010%
Help 4 Kids$1,50010%
Time Out Youth Inc$1,50010%
Charlotte Saint Patricks Day Parade$1,50019%
Bandera Family and Community Alliance$1,5001n/a
The Center for Safer Communities$1,50020%
Creative Living Community of Connecticut Inc$1,50020%
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger$1,50010%
Uptown Sertoma Club of Spartanburg Inc$1,50012%
Phoenix Gospel Mission$1,36510%
Homes First$1,25010%
Union Area Athletic Boosters Organization$1,25013%
Children's Home of Stockton Inc$1,25010%
American Jewish Committee$1,25010%
Buckhead Christian Ministry Inc$1,25020%
No Sister Left Behind$1,25012%
Silver Key Senior Services Inc$1,25010%
Yappy Tails Animal Rescue Inc$1,2001n/a
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation$1,10210%
Fertile Ground Neyw Inc$1,10031%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$1,05040%
Damar Foundation Inc$1,05010%
Picking Up the Pieces$1,0001n/a
Abc House Inc$1,00010%
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford$1,00010%
The Bradley Center for Grieving Children$1,00012%
Family Renew Community Inc$1,00010%
Bosom Buddies Inc$1,00012%
Bags of Love$1,00010%
Poverello House$1,00010%
Genesis Innovation Academy Inc$1,00010%
NoahBRAVE Foundation$1,00011%
Boys & Girls Club of Hill County Texas Incorporated$1,00010%
Hayfield Central Hose Co 1$1,00021%
Affirming Heart Victim Services$1,0001n/a
Feed The Need of Putnam County Inc$1,00010%
Journey Biker Church$1,0001n/a
Three Square$1,00010%
Women in Golf Foundation Inc$1,00012%
One Heart$1,0001n/a
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$1,00010%
Central City Concern$1,00010%
United Negro College Fund Inc$1,00010%
The Just One Project$1,00010%
Georgia Appleseed Inc$1,00010%
Cambridge Springs Volunteer Fire Department$1,00021%
The Hope Center$1,00011%
Young Men's Christian Association of the Georgia Sunbelt Inc$1,00010%
Special Olympics New Mexico Inc$1,00010%
Whitefield Academy Inc$1,00010%
Snowcap Community Services$1,00010%
Halcyon Home for Battered Womaninc$1,00010%
Operation Turkey Daily$1,00011%
Bridgeswork$1,00011%
Sos Animal Rescue$1,0001n/a
New Life Church Beeville$1,0001n/a
Operation Enduring Gratitude Foundation$1,00012%
Haven of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc$1,00010%
Dayton Society of Natural History$1,00010%
Community Angel Network$1,0001n/a
Maggie's Place Inc$1,00010%
Twin Falls Zoological Center$1,0001n/a
Harvest Ministries of Roswell$1,00010%
Because of Kennedy Inc$1,0001n/a
Sister Jose Women's Center$1,00010%
North Atlanta High School Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Special Needs Cobb Inc$1,00010%
White Bird Clinic$1,00010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Arizona$1,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Magic Valley$1,00010%
Emory University$1,0001n/a
Givingpoint Inc$1,0001n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Derrick Brooks Charities Inc$1,00010%
Coachella Youth Sports Association$1,00011%
Care and Share Inc$95010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$85920%
Helping Hands Inc$8501n/a
Tualatin Valley Volunteer Firefighters Association$80012%
Kinship House$80010%
A Little Help$80010%
Morning Star Fresh Food Ministry Inc$80010%
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation$80010%
For the Kids Org$80010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$75320%
Starbright Foundation Inc$75011%
Calhoun City Schools$7501n/a
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence$75010%
Grace Centers of Hope$75010%
American Legion #476$75011%
American Cancer Society Inc$70620%
Springmont School Inc$60020%
Davis Direction Foundation$60020%
Ronald McDonald House Global$52520%
Lake Erie Bulldogs Club Inc$5001n/a
Lake Norman Charter School$50010%
The South Range Athletic Boosters Inc$50010%
WI Cook Foundation Inc$50010%
Nickel City Canine Rescue Inc$50010%
Perry Elite Sports$5001n/a
The V Foundation$50010%
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio$50010%
Wheeler Abc Foundation$5001n/a
The Pink Daisy Project$50011%
World Wide Youth Networks$5001n/a
Paws for Life$50010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc$50010%
Techsmart for Seniors Inc$50011%
Boardman Youth Football and Cheer Inc$5001n/a
Miracle League Northshore$50010%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$5001n/a
205 Football Boosters$5001n/a
Elizabeth's Hope Pregnancy Resources$50010%
The Children's Museum of Atlanta Inc$50010%
Florida State University$5001n/a
Forgotten Harvest Inc$50010%
Firefighters Holiday Toy Drive$5001n/a
Second Helpings Atlanta Inc$50010%
Servicenet Inc$50010%
The Friends of the Spfld Vet Center Inc$50013%
Coventry Volunteer Fire Association$5001n/a
Friends to the Forlorn Pitbull Rescue Inc$42110%
Pelotonia$40620%
Rutherford County Soccer Association$34010%
Hero Dog Rescue$30010%
Heifer Project International$27510%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$25810%
Gwinnett Humane Society Inc$25010%
Liberty Center of Sandusky County$25010%
Dickerson Middle School Foundation Inc$25010%
Aid Atlanta Inc$25010%
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc$25010%
Wellspring Living Inc$2501n/a
Not One More Vet Inc$25010%
American Impact Capital Foundation Inc$2501n/a
Angels Among US Pet Rescue Inc$25010%
Freestore Foodbank Inc$23010%
Our Rescue$22320%
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc$20010%
Furkids Inc$20010%
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation Inc$20010%
Operation Bbq Relief$20010%
University Radio Foundation Inc$20010%
The Salvation Army$2001n/a
Charity Global Inc$12010%
University of North Texas Foundation Inc$12010%
Food for the Hungry Inc$11110%
United States Fund for Unicef$10510%
BCAI Cultural Arts and Humanities$10310%
Esophageal Cancer Action Network Inc$10310%
Top Box Foods$10310%
Boys & Girls Club of Gloucester County Inc$10010%
Hospice Satilla$10010%
Atlanta Music Project Inc$10010%
International Rescue Committee INC$10010%
Freedom Waters Foundation Inc$10010%
Villa Montessori PTO$1001n/a
Honor Thy Father Corp$1001n/a
Wildlife Conservation Society$10010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10010%
Operation Homefront Inc$10010%
Bread for the World Institute$10010%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$1001n/a
Hair We Share$10010%
Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab$901n/a
Food Bank for New York City$5510%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5310%
Pro Publica Inc$5210%
Teasley Tigers Paws Foundation Inc$5210%
Bearings Bike Shop Inc$5110%
Pflag$5010%
American Heart Association Inc$5010%
Autism Speaks Inc$5010%
The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University$5010%
Cherokee County Humane Society$5010%
New York Road Runners Inc$5010%
South Florida Public Media Group Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 452 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aaron's Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $7,420,671 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMorehouse College: $1,168,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough Atlanta: $196,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $77,375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDesire Street Ministries: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $68,319 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $57,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestside Future Fund Inc: $50,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Police Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $43,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $35,258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatin American Association: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWarrick Dunn Charities Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBlack Girls Code Inc: $25,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Georgia Angel House Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNational Black Child Development Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElderheart Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Country of Houston Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Community Food Bank Inc: $20,611 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEast Lake Foundationinc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc: $16,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFeedmore Western New York Inc: $15,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMany Mansions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLulac Institute Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoots for Troops: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVeterans Empowerment Organization of Georgia: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAgape Community Center: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGirls Inc of the Valley: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMany Mansions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetApro Charitable Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJason Witten S C O R E Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAtlanta Historical Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDr Shalon Maternal Action Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of North Louisiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc: $7,520 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $7,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Neighborhood Charter School: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Aaron's Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Aaron's Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Aaron's Foundation Inc

How much does Aaron's Foundation Inc give?
Aaron's Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $380,257 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 242 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Aaron's Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (72%), Education (13%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Aaron's Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($7.4M), Morehouse College ($1.2M), Breakthrough Atlanta ($196k).
Does Aaron's Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Aaron's Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aaron's Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Atl Fdn-W Peters Main.
Where is Aaron's Foundation Inc based?
Aaron's Foundation Inc is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 746 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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