· Private foundation
The Aeroflex 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 $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MUSICIAN'S AID SOCIETY OF NEW Y | $40,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $30,000 |
| FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETO | $20,000 |
| FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GOODSPEED MUSICALS | $10,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $10,000 |
| PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MU | $10,000 |
| LOVECRAFT ARTS AND SCIENCES COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREW GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $2,000 |
| PROJECT PRIDE | $1,000 |
| ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- NBNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +26%
- PAPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +143%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2018 · $13k
- LCLINCOLN CENTER THEATREone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York City Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Horror Writers Association. 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 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
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: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Aeroflex 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.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation 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.