· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FORWARD INC | $63,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY (YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) | $50,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - PALM BEACH CHAPTER | $22,570 |
| THE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK | $20,051 |
| NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $18,500 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC | $12,500 |
| NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC | $10,000 |
| SAINT DAVIDS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC | $10,000 |
| WARRIOR HOMES OF COLLIER | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k 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
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +27%
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +552%- ONOPERA NAPLES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $282k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TUTULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL (YALE UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER)one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
91 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. 91 of the 136 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 ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds MCA EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT NECK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds 101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
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 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
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 J Aron Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse 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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