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Steven Aresty Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYMPHONY SPACE | $89,000 |
| THE WHARTON SCHOOL UNIV OF PA | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS | $25,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| PROJECT SAGE | $12,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SHARON PLAYHOUSE | $6,000 |
| SHARON LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| WESTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CARE 4 AFRICA | $5,000 |
| OYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TATHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +87%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +27%
- WSWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE8× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- MOMuseum of Modern Artgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UNUNITED NEIGHBOR HOUSESone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Project Sage Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SHARON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV ↗
- Who funds Music Mountain Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · Elliott Family Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · Viola Foundation · The Catherine and Joseph Aresty Foundation Inc · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Block Family Foundation · Middle Road Foundation · Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · Peter and Helen Haje 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 Steven Aresty 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Trust — 25% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 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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