Delaware · Private foundation
The Fox Aarons 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.
- $484k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $120k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Fox Aarons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $384k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $555k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $653k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $870k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $675k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $838k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $375k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $565k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $1,915,240 | 9 | 2% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $1,029,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc | $794,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | $550,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Creative Time Inc | $330,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Printed Matter Inc | $187,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Swiss Institute | $107,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $1,915,240 | 9 | 2% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $1,029,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc | $794,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | $550,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Creative Time Inc | $330,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Printed Matter Inc | $187,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Swiss Institute | $107,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Primary Information Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspen Art Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International School of Brooklyn | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fund for Public Housing Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York City AIDS Memorial Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Guild Hall of East Hampton Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pratt Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Site Santa Fe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fox Aarons Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Brownstone Family Foundation · Teiger Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Fox Aarons Foundation
- How much does The Fox Aarons Foundation give?
- The Fox Aarons Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $484,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fox Aarons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (8%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are The Fox Aarons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Museum of Contemporary Art ($1.9M), Friends of the High Line Inc ($1.0M), Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc ($794k).
- Does The Fox Aarons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fox Aarons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fox Aarons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Ford Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation.
- Where is The Fox Aarons Foundation based?
- The Fox Aarons Foundation is based in DE.
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