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Aristotelian Foundation Inc at a glance

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Aristotelian Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$193k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Environment$408kHuman Services$17kScience & Tech$5kReligion$4kPhilanthropy$2kCivil Rights$500Community Improvement$250
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
$81,286
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Amazon Conservation Association$100,000
Rainforest Trust$81,286
Amazon Conservation Team$10,000
Covenant House NJ$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Charity Navigator: $1k → 7%Charity Navigator: $1k → 7%CHIPS: $1k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Aristotelian Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Aristotelian Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$428k · 13 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$428k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-32%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentScience & TechHuman 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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $227k · revenue +54%
  • AC
    AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $126k · revenue +9%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AC
    Annual Catholic Appeal
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TA
    THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +10%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -67%
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.

1
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
5
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
6
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
7
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Environment Now
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11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alliance for Climate Protection; the most unlike its peers is Community Help in Park Slope 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAINFOREST TRUST: $226,536 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $125,500 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC+7 more: $10,525 · Environment+7 moreAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $22,500 · Science & TechMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Science & TechYoga Society NY: $12,500 · OtherAnnual Catholic Appeal: $3,000 · OtherCovenant House NJ: $3,000 · OtherBrooklyn Christian Center: $1,250 · Other+3 more: $1,350 · OtherCharity Navigator: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1,000 · Human Services
International$226,536Environment$158,525Science & Tech$27,000Other$21,100Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $226,536 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $125,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALUE REPORTING FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Aristotelian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aristotelian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Aristotelian Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Aristotelian 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.

    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 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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