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J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$333k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$63,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 60
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$333k38%
FY202412$274k50%
FY202321$360k19%
FY202239$529k13%
FY202147$667k19%
FY202049$643k10%
FY201960$675k33%
FY201855$582k33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.1MHealth$363kHuman Services$274kScience & Tech$255kEnvironment$174kRecreation & Sports$141kPublic Benefit$129kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artis-Naples Inc$394,00090%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$330,00071%
Opera Naples Inc$282,00074%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$255,00050%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$200,00040%
Yale University$175,0005n/a
McA Educational Activities Inc$160,000894%
Saint David's School$155,00080%
Community School of Naples Inc$150,00080%
National Maritime Historical Society$130,00063%
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All grantees of J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artis-Naples Inc$394,00090%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$330,00071%
Opera Naples Inc$282,00074%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$255,00050%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$200,00040%
Yale University$175,0005n/a
McA Educational Activities Inc$160,000894%
Saint David's School$155,00080%
Community School of Naples Inc$150,00080%
National Maritime Historical Society$130,00063%
Warriors Homes of Collier Inc$125,00067%
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$115,00070%
Great Neck Historical Society$75,000587%
Books for Collier Kids Inc$75,00086%
Food Forward Inc$63,0001n/a
Japanese Art Society of America Inc$60,00064%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$60,00040%
World Ocean Observatory$60,000518%
Marymount School of New York$55,0006n/a
Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association$50,00020%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$50,00071%
New York Yacht Club Foundation$48,50070%
Windward School$46,00060%
National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Inc$45,0005n/a
Searching for Solutions Institute Inc$40,00026%
The Willows Community School$38,33260%
101 East 69th Street Conservancy$30,000612%
One West 54th Street Foundation$30,00061%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$30,00040%
Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation$25,00010%
SouthStreet Seaport Museum Foundation$25,0001100%
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$22,50020%
The Windward School$22,00050%
The Social Giving Network$20,05112%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$20,00020%
Salvation Army 1638-1640 Topping Ave Residen$20,0002n/a
Papanicolaou Corps for Cancer Research Inc$20,00020%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$20,00020%
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc$20,00040%
The George Washington University$20,00020%
New York Youth Symphony Inc$20,00070%
Tabor Academy$18,00060%
Center for Family Services of Palm Beach County Inc$15,00020%
New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation$15,00020%
Children's Tumor Foundation$15,00010%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation$13,00020%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$10,00010%
Friends of Wwoz Inc$10,00010%
National Pancreas Foundation$10,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10,0001n/a
The Near and Far Association Inc$10,00011%
Calvary Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
The New School$10,00010%
St Anne's-Belfield Inc$10,00010%
Pioneers for Animal Welfare Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Foxcroft School$10,00010%
Village School$10,00011%
The Episcopal School in the City of New York$10,00050%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$10,00050%
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc$10,00010%
La Goal$9,00060%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$8,75010%
Maccabi USA Inc$8,00010%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$7,50010%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$7,50020%
The Army Historical Foundation Inc$6,50040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$6,00020%
Cancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc$5,50021%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$5,00010%
Southern Sailing Foundation$5,0001n/a
Kades Kampers$5,0001n/a
The Brearley School$5,00010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$5,00020%
Palm Beach Navy Seal Evening of Tribute Inc$5,00011%
Southwest Heritage Inc Dba Naples Depot$5,0001n/a
211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc$5,00010%
Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School Inc$5,00010%
The Thanc Foundation Inc$5,00050%
The Speakers Assembly of Southwest Florida Inc$4,00012%
Northwell Health Foundation$4,00040%
Livelikecrazy Inc$4,000110%
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc$2,50010%
Naples Jazz Society Inc$2,0001n/a
Columbia Land Conservancy Inc$2,0001n/a
Actors' Equity Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Ballet Palm Beach Inc$1,50010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,50030%
Grand Canyon Conservancy$1,50010%
Faith in the Future Inc$1,5001n/a
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$1,00020%
Bard College$1,00010%
Scholarship America Inc$1,0001n/a
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary$1,0001n/a
Lenox Hill Hospital$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,00010%
Fairfield Country Day School Corporation$50010%
Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County$50010%
Junior League of the Palm Beaches Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($784k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $394,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $330,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOpera Naples Inc: $282,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $255,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMcA Educational Activities Inc: $160,000 over 8y, 94% of budgetSaint David's School: $155,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity School of Naples Inc: $150,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNational Maritime Historical Society: $130,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetWarriors Homes of Collier Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGreat Neck Historical Society: $75,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetBooks for Collier Kids Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetJapanese Art Society of America Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Ocean Observatory: $60,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetBella Mente Quantum Racing Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $50,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNew York Yacht Club Foundation: $48,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWindward School: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSearching for Solutions Institute Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Willows Community School: $38,332 over 6y, 0.0% of budget101 East 69th Street Conservancy: $30,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetOne West 54th Street Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBaker Senior Center Naples Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGreater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthStreet Seaport Museum Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Windward School: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Social Giving Network: $20,051 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPapanicolaou Corps for Cancer Research Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe George Washington University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Youth Symphony Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTabor Academy: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Family Services of Palm Beach County Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew Orleans Recreation Development Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Tumor Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLung Cancer Research Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Wwoz Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Pancreas Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Near and Far Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe New School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's-Belfield Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 82.

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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.

The Bessemer Giving FundNJ24× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to J Aron Charitable 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.

About J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc give?
J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $333,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (23%), Health (8%).
Who are J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Artis-Naples Inc ($394k), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($330k), Opera Naples Inc ($282k).
Does J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc 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 J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Collier Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc.
Where is J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc based?
J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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