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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$905kArts & Culture$350kPhilanthropy$136kCrime & Legal$94kEducation$60kReligion$32kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
N STREET VILLAGE$250,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY$75,000
ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$55,000
FOOD & FRIENDS$35,000
STUDIO THEATRE$25,000
WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY$20,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$20,000
EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY$20,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER$10,000
TEMPLE MICAH$6,400
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
ENGLISH EMPOWERMENT CENTER$5,000
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY$2,560
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$1,000
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE$600
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMESTRETCH INC: $510 → 4%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $500 → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
TX

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.

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.
$2.4M · 25 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
21

Total granted

$2.4M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $868k · revenue +70%
  • WM
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +22%
  • CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SYCAMORE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +745%
  • MM
    MULES MEN'S & WOMEN'S SOFTBALL BOOSTER CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AF
    ARTS FOR THE AGING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +64%

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 George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
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
6
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
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
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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10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for the Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bethesda-Chevy Chase Meals On Wheels Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Education Equity LeadershipVolunteer Fire DepartmentsClassical Music EnsemblesYouth Development CentersPregnancy Support ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Jewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersHomeless Services & ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-8 SchoolsFood Pantries & Assistance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr16%84%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,954

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.

04the grantee network

46 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 54 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

N STREET VILLAGE INC — $1,065,500 · OtherN STREET VILLAGE INC+20 more — $72,474 · Other+20 moreBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $867,650 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC+1 more — $2,500 · Food & NutritionWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $133,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $90,180 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN IN…The Studio Theatre Inc — $59,500 · Arts & CultureThe Studio The…EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL TH…+8 more — $14,160 · Arts & CultureARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $135,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $450 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $94,000 · Crime & LegalTHE SYCAMORE SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE — $12,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,250 · EducationLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $2,500 · Education+4 more — $2,850 · EducationFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $35,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Health+5 more — $1,956 · Health
Other$1,137,974Food & Nutrition$870,150Arts & Culture$346,840Philanthropy$135,950Crime & Legal$94,000Education$61,600Health$41,956

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 budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $1,065,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $867,650 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $135,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $133,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $94,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $90,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc — $59,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTS FOR THE AGING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION — $1,008 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKEEN GREATER DC LLC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRORSCHACH THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $710 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomestretch Inc — $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNIGHT MINISTRY — $256 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $196 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $100 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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Nora Roberts Foundati…Harold Rubenstein Fam…Philip L Graham Fund …James F & Sandra J Fi…Robert I Schattner Fo…Dimick Foundation Joh…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Venable Foundation Inc
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Aron Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report 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

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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