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The Catherine and Joseph Aresty Foundation Inc

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.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$10MEducation$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.6MArts & Culture$803kFood & Nutrition$675kHealth$516kHousing & Shelter$373kScience & Tech$350kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $470k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $612k
  • $250k+2 grants · $10M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEVEN ARESTY FOUNDATION$5,000,000
PETER & ROSANNE ARESTY FOUNDATION$5,000,000
SYMPHONY SPACE$137,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$100,000
ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS$75,000
NYU RESEARCH ALLIANCE$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYC$50,000
CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN$50,000
PREP FOR PREP$50,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$35,000
BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES$35,000
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES$25,000
ST THOMAS CHURCH$25,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $673k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GREEN CITY FORCE: $10k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $10k → 20%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $75k → 9%GREEN CITY FORCE: $10k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $10k → 20%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $25k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $25k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $25k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $25k → 17%United Neighborhood Houses: $15k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $15k → 17%United Neighborhood Houses: $15k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $10k → 17%United Neighborhood Houses: $10k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $35k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $28k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $25k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $20k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $20k → 17%Broadway Housing Communities: $20k → 17%Broadway Housing Communities: $20k → 17%Broadway Housing Communities: $20k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%Teak Fellowship: $20k → 17%Teak Fellowship: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%Teak Fellowship: $20k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
TX
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 47 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
24

Total granted

$9.1M
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+39%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
    8× · 2017–2024 · $575k · revenue +187%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $510k · revenue +65%
  • HA
    HARLEM ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • BARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +118%
  • PS
    PROJECT SAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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5
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
6
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Knights of Rizal. 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

41 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. 41 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PETER & ROSANNE ARESTY FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyPETER & ROSANNE ARESTY FOUNDATIONSTEVEN ARESTY FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropySTEVEN ARESTY FOUNDATIONARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $575,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISINGCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $932,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $453,000 · OtherTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INCPlanned Parenthood of NYC: $400,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of NYCNYU RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $350,000 · OtherNYU RESEARCH ALLIANCECITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $325,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDR…Individual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST THOMAS CHURCH: $225,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC: $200,000 · OtherLang Scholars at NY Col Psbn: $175,000 · OtherSwearer Center for Public Service: $175,000 · OtherWHARTON: $175,000 · Other+36 more: $1,367,000 · Other+36 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $510,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …HARLEM ACADEMY: $500,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYPREP FOR PREP: $450,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREPTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $297,500 · EducationTHE ACADEMY FO…GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $160,000 · EducationGEORGE JACKSON…DE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $155,000 · EducationDE LA SALLE AC…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $120,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $105,000 · EducationBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $207,500 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SAGE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER: $185,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $325,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCITY HARVEST INC: $200,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$10,575,000Other$5,077,500Education$2,517,500Human Services$672,500Arts & Culture$340,000Youth Development$327,500Food & Nutrition$200,000

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 budgetSTEVEN ARESTY FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $575,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $510,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $500,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $453,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $450,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $325,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $325,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $297,500 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $207,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $200,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $185,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER: $185,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $165,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $160,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $155,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $120,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMARONECK-LARCHMONT STUDENT AID FUND: $10,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EMELIN THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds PETER & ROSANNE ARESTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEVEN ARESTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗

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 New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundLily Auchincloss Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Steven Aresty Foundat…Peter & Rosanne Arest…Pinkerton FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Clark Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY27.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Steven Aresty Foundation · Peter & Rosanne Aresty Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Clark Foundation

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 Catherine and Joseph Aresty Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine and Joseph Aresty Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Catherine and Joseph Aresty Foundation Inc 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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