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The Jeffrey H and Shari L Aronson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.8MReligion$2.4MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$748kEmployment$704kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $2,538,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,644,739 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,106,639 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.5M
$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
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation At Queens College$125,000
Hunter College Hillel$100,000
Boundless Israel Inc$100,000
La'aretz Shulamit Sheli Harel$100,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$100,000
Jewish Food Society Inc$100,000
New Yorkers for a Better Future$100,000
Per Scholas Inc$75,000
4G44 Esports Inc$75,000
National Jewish Advocacy Center$75,000
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$75,000
FJC$75,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 33 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

$7.2M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% 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
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

  • 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 +184%

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
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.

03Its 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
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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: $839,440 · OtherJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MDB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC: $421,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $400,000 · Other+93 more: $9,808,083 · 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…TIDES CENTER: $200,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERWOMEN IN NEED INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED …SUNRISE 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 ServicesCOMMONPOINT NY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 · Human Services+2 more: $75,000 · Human ServicesResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $511,491 · EducationResearch Fo…BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $250,000 · EducationBOUNDLESS I…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…PACE UNIVERSITY: $176,583 · EducationPACE UNIVER…THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $125,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH …YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $117,408 · EducationYOUTH RENEW…MARCY LAB INC: $100,000 · EducationSIXPOINT 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 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $144,398 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $100,000 · 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$11,468,523Human Services$2,426,451Education$1,920,482Arts & Culture$1,411,499Health$991,951Philanthropy$954,561International$404,456

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 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 budgetB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC: $421,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $401,894 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $367,000 over 4y, 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 budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $250,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $144,398 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOBSFIRSTNYC: $99,898 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNew York University: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 144 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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