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The Fox Aarons Foundation

Name: The Fox Aarons Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

69
grants reported: $2.9M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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New Museum of Contemporary Art9 grants · $645,240
Friends of the High Line9 grants · $504,800
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center6 grants · $444,000
Brown University11 grants · $340,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum4 grants · $175,000
Brooklyn Museum2 grants · $150,000
Printed Matter6 grants · $137,500
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences1 grant · $125,000
Creative Time3 grants · $110,000
Dia Center for the Arts5 grants · $50,000

Giving over time

$920,000

2022

$792,790

2023

$655,250

2024

$484,000

2025

Grant history

All 69 reported grants, largest first.

$250,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2022
Capital Campaign
$125,000
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
For the exhibition "Copyshop Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines"
$125,000
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Exhibition Support
$123,250
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$120,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2024
High Line Art Program and General Operating fund
$100,000
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$100,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2022
Highline Art
$100,000
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$97,240
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$96,500
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$96,500
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$72,500
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2025
Performing Arts Building Fund
$50,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2025
High Line Art Program
$50,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum · New York, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Performing Arts Building fund
$50,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2024
High Line Art
$50,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum · New York, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
The Performing Arts Center
$50,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2023
High Line Art
$50,000
Brown University of Providence · Providence, RI · 2022
Brown PAC, Fox Aarons Family Studio
$50,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$47,300
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2023
High Line Art Program
$40,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2025
Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research
$40,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research
$40,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
The Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research
$40,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2023
General Operating Support
$35,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2023
General Operating Support
$35,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$30,000
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Van Wickle Ventures
$25,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2023
General Operating Support
$25,000
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2023
James Lee Byars Publication
$25,000
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum · New York, NY · 2022
Virtual Field Trip Program
$25,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
Rare Book Fund
$25,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2022
Support for Kapwani Kiwanga Exhibition
$23,250
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · Long Is City, NY · 2023
General Operating Support
$22,500
Friends of the High Line · New York, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$22,500
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$20,000
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2022
Art Book Fair Book Project
$15,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2025
Friend of the Triennial
$15,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2024
Rare Book Fund
$15,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2024
Friends of the Triennial
$15,000
Primary Information · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Support of the Torrington Book Project
$15,000
Printed Matter · New York, NY · 2024
LAABF Committee fund
$15,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Academic Program Fund of the Brown Arts Initiative
$15,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2023
The Triennial
$10,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2025
Chair's Discretionary Fund for the Department of Economics
$10,000
Dia Center for the Arts · New York, NY · 2025
Renee Green Exhibition Support
$10,000
Dia Center for the Arts · New York, NY · 2025
Exhibition Support presented by Amy Sillman
$10,000
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art · New York, NY · 2025
Wojnarowicz Exhibition Catalog Support
$10,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2025
Whitney Biennial
$10,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Chair's Discretionary Fund for the Department of Economics
$10,000
Aspen Art Museum · Aspen, CO · 2023
Film Project under the direction of Dennis Cooper
$10,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
The Chair's Discretionary Fund For the Department of Economics
$10,000
Dia Center for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023
Tony Cokes Exhibition
$10,000
Dia Center for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023
Stanley Brouwn Exhibition
$10,000
Dia Center for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023
Mary Heilmann Exhibition Support
$10,000
Primary Information · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Steve Lawrence "Newspaper" Publication
$5,500
International School of Brooklyn · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Annual Fund 2023-2024
$5,000
Guild Hall of East Hampton · East Hampton, NY · 2025
Mary Heilmann exhibition Support
$5,000
Site Santa Fe · Santa Fe, NM · 2025
Exhibition Catalog Support
$5,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2025
Watson Library Support
$5,000
New York City AIDS Memorial · New York, NY · 2023
Memorial Bench project

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