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Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION SINAI | $60,250 |
| YAVNEH DAY SCHOOL | $14,800 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $5,918 |
| JEWISH SILICON VALLEY | $5,000 |
| HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY | $3,600 |
| CONGREGATION BETH JACOB | $2,030 |
| CHANCE THEATER - BETTY AITKEN THEATER ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
| MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,800 |
| TERRACES OF LOS GATOS HUMAN GOOD FUND | $1,600 |
| HIAS | $1,525 |
| GET BENT FRIENDS | $1,021 |
| GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HOHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +65%
- MAMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH SHALOMone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CHCHABAD HOUSE OF ALMADENone grant, 2022 · $3k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Science Institute and the most unlike its peers is Footsteps Child Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 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. 72 of the 133 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 Yavneh Day School ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE KEHILLAH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Chai House Inc · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Tides Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Milligan Family Foundation · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Intuit 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 Altman-Aronow Charitable 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% 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.
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