· Private foundation
The Aresty Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $12,610 |
| American Repertory BalletAmeri | $10,300 |
| Princeton Public Library Found | $5,821 |
| Center for Modern Aging Princeton | $5,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Princeton Jewish Center | $3,138 |
| Hevreh of Southern Berkshires | $2,528 |
| Homefront | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $1,000 |
| Princeton University Concerts | $1,000 |
| Penn Medicine | $1,000 |
| Princeton Day School | $1,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Mercer -Bucks | $750 |
| McCarter Theatre | $600 |
| Per Scholas | $526 |
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 (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +116%
PRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +42%
PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +371%
Funded once
- SCShalom Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
- ALAlford Land Trust Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -71%
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.
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alford Land Trust 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 54 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.
33 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. 33 of the 81 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 AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON COMMUNITY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Shalom Center ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Alford Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Educational Ventures Inc · The Anne and Gerald Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.