· 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $96,500 |
| PS1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC | $72,500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $50,000 |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $22,500 |
| PRINTED MATTER INC | $22,500 |
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $15,000 |
| DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART | $10,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $10,000 |
| SITE SANTA FE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Fox Aarons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 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
- NMNew Museum of Contemporary Art9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +6%
- P1PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $794k · revenue +16%
- LELOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM7× · 2018–2025 · $550k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- AAASPEN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -68%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYNone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
- FFFUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue ×12
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 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…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
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 philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Primary Information Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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 23 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 Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PRINTED MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds SWISS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY INFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL 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: 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
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 Fox Aarons 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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