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Aronow 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS RI | $15,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $5,000 |
| MUSO HEALTH | $5,000 |
| THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| MUSIC & MEMORY | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $2,000 |
| HOPEHEALTH | $2,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $2,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ALOIS SOCIETY - ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RI | $1,000 |
| TOMORROW'S RAINBOW | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LRLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +42%
CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +99%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +10%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -33%- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEG OF SOUTHERN RIone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WHWELCOME HOUSE OF SOUTH COUNTY INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 65 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC & MEMORY INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds TrustBridge Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Kingston Chamber Music Festival At The University of Rhode Island Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · American Express Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Aronow 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.
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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