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The Jeffrey H and Shari L Aronson 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.

$7.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of The Jeffrey H and Shari L Aronson Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $2,363,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,819,739 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,456,639 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.3M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$176M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Footsteps Inc$150,000
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation At Queens College$125,000
The Baruch College Fund$125,000
Boundless Israel Inc$100,000
Hunter College Hillel$100,000
La'aretz Shulamit Sheli Harel$100,000
New Yorkers for a Better Future$100,000
Jewish Food Society Inc$100,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$100,000
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$75,000
FJC$75,000
New Jersey Federation of Young Mens Hebrew Association & Young Womens Hebrew Association$75,000
Per Scholas Inc$75,000
4G44 Esports Inc$75,000
National Jewish Advocacy Center$75,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 33 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
89

Total granted

$7.0M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $606k · revenue +36%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    3× · 2022–2024 · $511k · revenue +29%
  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • JH
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
    one grant, 2022 · $839k
  • AJ
    American Jewish Committee, NY, NY, New York, NY
    one grant, 2022 · $381k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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5
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Talmar 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsCollege Foundation SupportPregnancy Support CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterGovernment Accountability &…Women's Empowerment Organiz…Environmental Advocacy and …Christian Youth CampsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Girls Stem Education Progra…Education Equity InitiativesCommunity Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,687

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.

03the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD — $839,440 · OtherJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MDNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION — $400,000 · OtherAmerican Jewish Committee, NY, NY, New York, NY — $381,397 · Other+93 more — $9,722,686 · Other+93 moreFOOTSTEPS INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INCHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC — $262,026 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE LO…COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $225,539 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE …GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $211,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD …JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY COLLE…WOMEN IN NEED INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED …TIDES CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $190,521 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CA…TALMAR INC — $102,365 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $100,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $100,000 · Human Services+2 more — $75,000 · Human ServicesResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $511,491 · EducationResearch Fo…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $250,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC — $250,000 · EducationBOUNDLESS I…PACE UNIVERSITY — $176,583 · EducationPACE UNIVER…THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $125,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH …YOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $117,408 · EducationYOUTH RENEW…SIXPOINT INC — $100,000 · EducationMARCY LAB INC — $100,000 · EducationNew York University — $75,000 · Education+5 more — $215,000 · Education+5 moreTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,000,432 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $260,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION — $101,067 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $605,679 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $227,668 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $108,604 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $50,000 · HealthROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $401,894 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $94,398 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $58,269 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $152,365 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $101,409 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $100,682 · InternationalITREK INC — $50,000 · International
Other$11,343,523Human Services$2,426,451Education$1,920,482Arts & Culture$1,411,499Health$991,951Philanthropy$904,561International$404,456

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,000,432 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $605,679 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $511,491 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $450,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $401,894 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION — $367,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC — $296,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $290,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC — $262,026 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $260,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC — $250,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $227,668 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $225,539 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $215,704 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $211,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $210,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $190,521 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $176,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $174,898 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $152,365 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $117,408 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $108,604 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALMAR INC — $102,365 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $101,409 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $101,067 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $100,682 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIXPOINT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCY LAB INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJOBSFIRSTNYC — $99,898 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $94,398 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNew York University — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe — $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Communal FundThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The Harry and Jeanett…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Nash Family FoundationPinkerton FoundationRobin Hood FoundationLisa & Michael Leffel…The Heckscher Foundat…
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York IncNY31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Nash Family Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation · The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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.

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How do I get to The Jeffrey H and Shari L Aronson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jeffrey H and Shari L Aronson Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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