Maryland · Private foundation
Aron Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $531k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Aron Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $476k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $320k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $531k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $327k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $384k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $217k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $278k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| N Street Village Inc | $1,065,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $867,650 | 7 | 1% |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc | $133,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Children's Law Center Inc | $94,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $90,180 | 5 | 0% |
| The Studio Theatre Inc | $59,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Educational Theatre Company | $50,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Micah Washington DC | $31,850 | 7 | n/a |
| The Sycamore School | $25,000 | 1 | 11% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aron Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · James F & Sandra J Fitzpatrick Charitable Foundation Inc · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Aron Family Foundation
- How much does Aron Family Foundation give?
- Aron Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $531,410 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Aron Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (40%), Food & Nutrition (34%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Aron Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: N Street Village Inc ($1.1M), Bread for the City Inc ($868k), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ($133k).
- Does Aron Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Aron Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aron Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is Aron Family Foundation based?
- Aron Family Foundation is based in MD.
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