Neal Aronson
Profile Summary
Neal Aronson is a U.S.-based finance-industry billionaire born in 1965 and associated with Georgia. His estimated net worth is ~$4.0B RTB.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR records identify Aronson as connected to Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (DRVN) and Driven Equity Sub LLC. The records include 15 insider ownership filings, including Form 3 filings, which disclose an insider's initial ownership, and Form 4 filings, which report later changes in ownership; recent listed filings span from June 2015 through November 2023 SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
Foundation filings list three entities named Aronson Foundation or Aronson Foundation Inc. Their reported combined grants paid were $376,082 and combined assets were $3,934,796, based on filings from 2015, 2019, and 2023 ProPublica 990. The Aronson Foundation in Rhinecliff, New York reported $3,297,389 in assets and $207,000 in grants paid for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 45 political contributions totaling $59,810.50 between May 24, 2007, and January 31, 2025. The party breakdown was $30,830 to Republican recipients, $19,480.50 to recipients with an unknown party designation, and $9,500 to Democratic recipients FEC. The largest listed recipients were the Manchin Leadership Fund ($11,600), Georgians for Kelly Loeffler ($11,200), Manchin for West Virginia ($6,600), Cory Gardner for Senate ($5,200), and Country Roads PAC ($5,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $59,810.50.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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