· Private foundation
The Aaron Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCADIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC | $10,000 |
| TREE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $4,342 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM | $1,000 |
| THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS | $250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $200 |
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 (FY17–18, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% 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 +67% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 72% 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
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC2× · 2017–2018 · $29k · revenue +67%
- TFTREE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +192%
- TCTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $112k
- POPINES OF SARASOTA INCone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -85%
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +101%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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 tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westcoast School for Human Development Foundation Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM ↗
- Who funds THE PARKINSON COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEY CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · Shapolsky-Siegel Charitable Foundation · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · The Huisking Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable 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 The Aaron Family 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Can Community Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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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