How much does Steven Aresty Foundation give?

Steven Aresty Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $255,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Steven Aresty Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (29%), Food & Nutrition (8%).

Who are Steven Aresty Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Symphony Space Inc ($296k), The Academy for Teachers Inc ($233k), The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($150k).

Does Steven Aresty Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Steven Aresty Foundation 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.

Where is Steven Aresty Foundation based?

Steven Aresty Foundation is based in NY.

Steven Aresty Foundation

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Steven Aresty Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Steven Aresty Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc, Anne and Rollin Bates 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.

$256k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$89k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$750kArts & Culture$579kFood & Nutrition$151kRecreation & Sports$115kHealth$114kCivil Rights$82kHuman Services$51kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $50k
$10k–50k7 grants · $117k
$50k–250k1 grant · $89k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY	$10,000
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL	$10,000
HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING	$10,000
JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION	$7,500
SHARON PLAYHOUSE	$6,000
CARE 4 AFRICA	$5,000
WESTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER	$5,000
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL	$5,000
SHARON LAND TRUST	$5,000
OYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$2,000

02The need

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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 43 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+28%

Still filing today

60%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

TA
THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +87%
TP
THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +27%
WS
WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE
8× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +209%

Funded once

MO
Museum of Modern Artgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +28%
SH
SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -23%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Syracuse University

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…

Education

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School; 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.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

28/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$864,000Education$421,300Arts & Culture$207,000Youth Development$149,000Community Improvement$120,000Health$120,000Recreation & Sports$93,600

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

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.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steven Aresty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven Aresty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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