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Jerome & Lorraine Aresty Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34M
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$17M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.

Philanthropy$38MReligion$170kEducation$155kFood & Nutrition$137kEnvironment$136kArts & Culture$129kHousing & Shelter$100kInternational$81kHealth$75kOther$2.6M
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$16,855,599
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Kustel Fund$16,855,599
The Aresty Family Foundation$16,805,145
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 (FY17–18, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS: $10k → 12%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%WHISTLESTOP: $12k → 8%Ceres Community Project: $10k → 9%Whistlestop: $10k → 8%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

MT
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 42 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 40 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
38

Total granted

$40M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+68%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalAnimalsEducationHealthOther

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

  • TA
    THE ARESTY FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19M · revenue +14% · 100% of their budget
  • GF
    GLIDE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $160k · revenue +51%
  • PO
    Project Open Hand
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of St Petersburg
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $450k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

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 Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

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4
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
5
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
6
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
7
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
Fossil Free California

Fossil Free California works to end financial support for climate-damaging fossil fuels and promotes the transition to a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Kustel Fund. 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 backsteadySubstance Abuse TreatmentVolunteer Fire DepartmentsGovernment Accountability R…South Asian Cultural and Sp…Animal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Community Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Classical Music EnsemblesEducation Equity LeadershipChristian Missionary Organi…Food Pantries & AssistanceSenior Support ServicesJewish Community Federations
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%96%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,706

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

54 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. 54 of the 83 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
46/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE KUSTEL FUND — $19,158,508 · PhilanthropyTHE KUSTEL FUNDTHE ARESTY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $19,108,054 · PhilanthropyTHE ARESTY FAMILY FOUNDATION+2 more — $72,000 · PhilanthropyRodef Sholom Temple — $500,000 · OtherCity of St Petersburg — $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA — $450,000 · OtherCanal Alliance Of Marin County — $120,000 · OtherSeeds of Learning — $100,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION — $100,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $100,000 · OtherHomeward Bound of Marin — $100,000 · Other+52 more — $881,500 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION — $160,000 · ReligionNeshama Center — $10,000 · Religion10000 DEGREES — $100,000 · EducationThe Farm Collaborative — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationProject Open Hand — $100,000 · Food & NutritionAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $6,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $500 · Food & NutritionEARTHJUSTICE — $33,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $27,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 · EnvironmentECOFLIGHT — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $79,000 · Arts & CultureST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$38,338,562Other$2,851,500Religion$170,000Education$155,000Food & Nutrition$136,500Environment$136,000Arts & Culture$129,000

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 budgetTHE KUSTEL FUND — $19,158,508 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE ARESTY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $19,108,054 over 2y, 100% of budgetProject Open Hand — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeeds of Learning — $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budget10000 DEGREES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $79,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $54,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Farm Collaborative — $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAspen Jewish Center — $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF ST PETERSBURG INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVivalon — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties FL Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNeshama Center — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOFLIGHT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetA Way Out Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Paw Emergency Relief Team — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETSMART CHARITIES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKING STREET CATS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Aresty Family Fou…Aspen Community Found…The Scharlin Family F…Aspen Business Center…Silicon Valley Commun…Community Foundation …Jewish Community Fede…The Denver FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…Colorado Gives Founda…National Philanthropi…
The Aresty Family FoundationNY32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Aresty Family Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Scharlin Family Foundation Inc · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Denver Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Jerome & Lorraine Aresty Charitable 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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How do I get to Jerome & Lorraine Aresty Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jerome & Lorraine Aresty Charitable Foundation 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.

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 83 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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