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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 81-4159057

The Fox Aarons Foundation

A private foundation in Wilmington, DE. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 17 grants and $484,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $484,000

    Grants listed
    17
    Assets, end of year
    $120,391

  • Tax year 2024

    $655,250

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $507,082

  • Tax year 2023

    $792,790

    Grants listed
    22
    Assets, end of year
    $1,227,957

  • Tax year 2022

    $920,000

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $1,751,997

  • Tax year 2021

    $720,000

    Grants listed
    16
    Assets, end of year
    $2,678,267

  • Tax year 2020

    $837,500

    Grants listed
    13
    Assets, end of year
    $2,985,053

  • Tax year 2019

    $375,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $3,808,031

  • Tax year 2018

    $565,000

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $4,324,491

Grants paid in 2025

17 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. New Museum of Contemporary ArtNew York, NY

    General & Unrestricted

    $96,500
  2. PS1 Contemporary Art Center IncLong Is City, NY

    General & Unrestricted

    $72,500
  3. Brown UniversityProvidence, RI

    Performing Arts Building Fund

    $50,000
  4. Friends of the High Line IncNew York, NY

    High Line Art Program

    $50,000
  5. Lower East Side Tenement MuseumNew York, NY

    General & Unrestricted

    $50,000
  6. Brown UniversityProvidence, RI

    Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research

    $40,000
  7. Friends of the High Line IncNew York, NY

    General & Unrestricted

    $22,500
  8. Printed Matter IncNew York, NY

    General & Unrestricted

    $22,500
  9. New Museum of Contemporary ArtNew York, NY

    Friend of the Triennial

    $15,000
  10. Brown UniversityProvidence, RI

    Chair's Discretionary Fund for the Department of Economics

    $10,000
  11. Dia Center for the Arts IncNew York, NY

    Renee Green Exhibition Support

    $10,000
  12. Dia Center for the Arts IncNew York, NY

    Exhibition Support presented by Amy Sillman

    $10,000
  13. Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian ArtNew York, NY

    Wojnarowicz Exhibition Catalog Support

    $10,000
  14. Whitney Museum of American ArtNew York, NY

    Whitney Biennial

    $10,000
  15. Guild Hall of East Hampton IncEast Hampton, NY

    Mary Heilmann exhibition Support

    $5,000
  16. Site Santa FeSanta Fe, NM

    Exhibition Catalog Support

    $5,000
  17. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY

    Watson Library Support

    $5,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture14 grants $384,00079% of the total
  2. Community development3 grants $100,00021% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York13 grants $379,000
  2. Rhode Island3 grants $100,000
  3. New Mexico1 grant $5,000

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Philip AaronsDir, Treas Hours 1Pay $0
  • Shelley Fox AaronsDir, Pres Hours 1Pay $0
  • Zachary AaronsDir, Sec Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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