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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.

$36k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$131kArts & Culture$103kEducation$41kHuman Services$40kInternational$27kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$16kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$4,342
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC$10,000
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $1k → 22%PINES OF SARASOTA: $23k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 19 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +62% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
32

Total granted

$144k
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+62%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $29k · revenue +67%
  • TF
    TREE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +192%
  • TC
    THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $112k
  • PO
    PINES OF SARASOTA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -85%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +101%
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.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Players Inc

The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Sarasota Opera Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

—
6
Point Park University

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…

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7
Florida Grand Opera Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

—
11
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
12
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $111,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $11,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISMJEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $9,942 · OtherJEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 · OtherALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $38,835 · Other+22 moreRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $28,500 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF AR…TREE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTREE FOUNDATION INCTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $13,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSER…ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE …Children First Inc: $6,500 · EducationChildren First Inc+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO …ASOLO THEATRE INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE I…Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet…WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST BLACK…CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUT…Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $3,700 · Arts & CultureHermitage Artis…+2 more: $2,250 · Arts & CulturePINES OF SARASOTA INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $2,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PARKINSON COUNCIL: $10,500 · HealthNEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$200,877Education$84,000Arts & Culture$57,950Human Services$26,500International$20,500Philanthropy$20,000Health$17,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA INC: $22,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $11,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PARKINSON COUNCIL: $10,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetChildren First Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $3,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Norman E Peterson and…William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Woman's Exchange Inc …Roberta Leventhal Sud…The Arthur S Karp Fam…Shapolsky-Siegel Char…Tarr Charitable Famil…The Huisking Foundati…The Cowles Charitable…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Aaron Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Aaron Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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