How much did ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION reported 11 grants totaling $11,230,511 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION based?

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is based in CA.

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Ares foundation's mission is to help accelerate economic equity and equality by supporting nonprofits and initiatives that provide career preparation and reskilling, encourage entrepreneurship and deepen individuals' understanding of personal finance.

$11M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$4.4M

Largest

01What you fund

0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$12MEmployment$11MInternational$3.7MEducation$1.8MHealth$835kHuman Services$825kCivil Rights$700kCommunity Improvement$650kSocial Science$632kOther$598k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid relief

2021

—

2022

businessesemployee ownershipwomenbuildcaredesignchallenge

2023

marketdesignatlantafinancialemployee ownershipbuildcare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k7 grants · $1.3M
$250k+4 grants · $9.1M

$248,782

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

JOBS FOR THE FUTURE$4,381,217
ALT FINANCE CORPORATION$3,000,000
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$1,200,091
CHARLES EDWARD FOUNDATION DBA WORKINGNATION$500,000
URBAN INSTITUTE$249,985
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$248,782
ADARA DEVELOPMENT (USA)$225,000
OWNERSHIP WORKS$200,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$133,333
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION$102,800
AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC$93,200

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $825k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$28M · 9 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$28M

$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+17%

Still filing today

100%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHuman ServicesSocial SciencePublic BenefitEmploymentOther

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

AF
ALT FINANCE CORPORATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $12M · revenue +5% · 50% of their budget
JF
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE
3× · 2022–2024 · $10M · revenue +152%
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +91%

Funded once

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PATH (PROGRAM FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH)
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue 0%
TU
THE UCLA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +31%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +20%

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

United Way Inc

We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, (cont. on sch. o) donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.

Philanthropy

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve, regardless of the patients' ability to pay. the organization also serves the community by operating as a…

Health

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder builds lasting and trusted local partnerships to strengthen health systems, forging resilient pathways to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

International

Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Inpatient and outpatient healthcare for citizens of the local & surrounding communities.

Health

Cedars-Sinai Health System

To operate for the benefit of and to support specified nonprofit healthcare organizations.

Health

The Rockefeller University

A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ownership Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,537

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$12,093,200Employment$10,641,752International$3,651,039Education$1,752,554Health$835,000Human Services$825,000Civil Rights$700,000Other$1,879,663

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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation ARES 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALT FINANCE CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue held over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 863974526 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ALT FINANCE CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ares Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ares Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ares Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ares Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph