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The Aresty Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of The Aresty Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Aresty Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $950k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k24 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAZZ ASPEN-SNOWMASS | $400,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $50,000 |
| WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| FARM COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG IN THE WORLD INC | $30,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $30,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $25,000 |
| WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES | $25,000 |
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION | $25,000 |
| POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF ST PETERSBURG | $25,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PINELLAS AND PASCO COUNTIES | $18,000 |
| JEWISH COLORADO - UJA ASPEN | $18,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +51% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- JAJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS6× · 2019–2024 · $541k · revenue +197%
- SPST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT INC3× · 2020–2022 · $325k · revenue +91% · 50% of their budget
- AEASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthoodone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HFHUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -87%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 41 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.
54 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. 54 of the 76 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds The Farm Collaborative ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG IN THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties FL Inc ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Neshama Center ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds The 2Forks Club ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Jerome & Lorraine Aresty Charitable Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · The Scharlin Family Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Arches Foundation · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found
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 Aresty 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.
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% 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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