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Edward Ariowitsch Foundation at a glance

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Edward Ariowitsch 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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$38kEducation$37kAnimals$17kArts & Culture$15kCivil Rights$7kPhilanthropy$6kFood & Nutrition$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$281k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE$3,500
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$2,600
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$1,183
CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD$1,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$1,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,000
TREVOR DAY SCHOOL$1,000
CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$1,000
CAF AMERICA$717
ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC$500
THE SATO PROJECT$500
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA$400
CHABAD AT EMORY$195
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$110
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANIMAL LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE INC: $1k → 17%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%CAF AMERICA: $4k → 9%CAF AMERICA: $3k → 9%CAF AMERICA: $2k → 9%CAF AMERICA: $2k → 9%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 9%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $4k → 17%RESCUE DOGS ROCK NYC: $4k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $3k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $3k → 17%THE CHAPIN SCHOOL: $2k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $2k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $2k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $1k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%TATE AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $3k → 17%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $2k → 17%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $2k → 17%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $2k → 17%POSH PETS RESCUE: $2k → 17%WAGGYTAIL RESCUE INC: $1k → 17%TREVOR DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%TREVOR DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 17%CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WHITECHAPEL: $4k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $4k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $4k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $4k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WHITECHAPEL: $3k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $3k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA INC: $2k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 16 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$94k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-18%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $9k · revenue +13%
  • TD
    Trevor Day School
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -18%
  • PP
    Posh Pets Rescue Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -4%
  • WR
    WAGGYTAIL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -47%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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8
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
12
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Dogs Rock Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waggytail Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE: $22,739 · OtherTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WHITECHAPEL: $7,430 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WHITECHAP…RESCUE DOGS ROCK NYC: $4,675 · OtherRESCUE DOGS ROCK NYC+4 more: $2,204 · Other+4 moreTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $18,040 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOLTrevor Day School: $6,000 · EducationTrevor Day SchoolTeach for America Inc: $2,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $14,824 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUN…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $5,118 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US F…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,438 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS…New York Historical Society: $1,015 · Arts & CultureNew York Hist…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $935 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN …Museum of Modern Art: $680 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $85 · Arts & CultureTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMAN…ANIMAL LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE INC: $1,752 · AnimalsANIMAL LI…WAGGYTAIL RESCUE INC: $1,065 · AnimalsWAGGYTAIL…RESCUE DOGS ROCK INC: $1,000 · AnimalsRESCUE DO…ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $990 · AnimalsANIMAL CA…THE SATO PROJECT: $948 · AnimalsTHE SATO …CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,141 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $400 · Food & NutritionPosh Pets Rescue Inc: $1,501 · Recreation & SportsCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$37,048Education$36,040Philanthropy$20,942Arts & Culture$15,153Animals$10,755Food & Nutrition$2,541Recreation & Sports$2,501

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $18,040 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $14,824 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,438 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $5,118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,141 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE INC: $1,752 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPosh Pets Rescue Inc: $1,501 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAGGYTAIL RESCUE INC: $1,065 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,015 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE DOGS ROCK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $990 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT: $948 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $935 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $85 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.

American Express Foun…Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Express FoundationNY16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Edward Ariowitsch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Ariowitsch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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