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Arent 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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$200kHealth$98kEducation$96kReligion$20kCivil Rights$16kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS ARENA OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS$25,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$11,000
UC BERKELY FOUNDATION$10,000
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM- RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MC CALLUM THEATER$10,000
AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS$10,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$5,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
OCCIDENTIAL COLLEGE$2,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONRLQCC$2,000
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION$1,000
SAMBHALI US$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORRISANTS$1,000
02The need
03

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 US giving67% of grant dollars ($311k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 33% that went abroad ($150k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHANNON FDN: $200 → 12%SHANNON FDN: $200 → 12%SHANNON FDN: $200 → 12%SHANNON FDN: $200 → 12%SHANNON FDN: $200 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US33% of all-years giving ($150k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$150k · 7 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$439k · 22 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$439k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+29%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +28%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AU
    ALIMA USA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BA
    BRIDGES ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue 0%
  • VB
    VALLEY BETH SHALOM
    one grant, 2022 · $500

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is De Toledo High School and the most unlike its peers is The Shannon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARTS ARENA OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS — $130,000 · OtherARTS ARENA OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARISMC CALLUM THEATER — $50,000 · OtherMC CALLUM THEATERBERKELEY LAW SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherBERKELEY LAW SCHOOLUC BERKELY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherUC BERKELY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARISIndividual grant recipient — $16,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM- RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM — $15,000 · Other+10 more — $31,550 · Other+10 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $52,500 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEA…Eisenhower Medical Center — $25,200 · HealthEisenhower Medical …+1 more — $250 · HealthWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $16,000 · Civil RightsOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $12,500 · EducationDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL — $2,000 · Education+2 more — $750 · EducationU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalSAMBHALI US INC — $5,000 · InternationalVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$312,550Health$77,950Arts & Culture$19,500Civil Rights$16,000Education$15,250International$15,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $25,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMBHALI US INC — $5,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shannon Foundation — $1,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES ACADEMY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTITUTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVote Solar — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
  • Who funds U S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAMBHALI US INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC
  • Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds The Shannon Foundation
  • Who funds BRIDGES ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROSTITUTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
  • Who funds Vote Solar

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Arent 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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