How much does Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation give?

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $130,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Education (24%), Human Services (8%).

Who are Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Yavneh Day School ($130k), Congregation Sinai of San Jose ($115k), Hillel of Silicon Valley Inc ($21k).

Does Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation based?

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard 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.

$131k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$163kEducation$147kHuman Services$47kArts & Culture$44kPhilanthropy$39kAnimals$27kFood & Nutrition$26kCivil Rights$26kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k47 grants · $55k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$326k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ISRAID	$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
SAN JOSE STAGE COMPANY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$518k · 60 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$518k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+38%

Still filing today

67%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +65%
MA
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +80%

Funded once

TB
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM
one grant, 2024 · $5k
CH
CHABAD HOUSE OF ALMADEN
one grant, 2022 · $3k
AJ
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
one grant, 2021 · $2k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

United States Naval Institute

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.

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San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education

The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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The Contemporary Jewish Museum

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.

Arts & Culture

Jews of Color Initiative

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…

Civil Rights

Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Science Institute; 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.

05the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

72/72

Grantees still filing

49/72

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$362,410Education$143,646Human Services$20,960International$20,825Animals$20,350Arts & Culture$19,610Health$12,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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