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A R K a Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2023
29
Grants FY2023
29
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 35
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations A R K a Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202329$150k24%
FY202231$150k29%
FY202124$66k42%
FY202023$114k26%
FY201929$114k17%
FY201835$156k23%
FY201733$114kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$152kArts & Culture$122kEducation$105kCommunity Improvement$101kPhilanthropy$61kPublic Benefit$60kHuman Services$41kInternational$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
OR
NV
IA
CA
WV
VA
AZ

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget A R K a Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of San Diego: $97,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Partnership Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Council on International Policy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $9,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSojourner Center: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHillel of San Diego: $5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $5,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWiggle Your Toes Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLos Angeles Mission Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Jewish University: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLange Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCardiovascular Research Foundation of Southern California: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLuv of dogz fund: $2,900 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetSkirball Cultural Center: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maple Counseling Center: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHamburger Home: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Hills Police Officers Assn Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArizona Beagle Rescue: $1,250 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBeagle Freedom Project: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLovepup Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Baseball Foundation: $550 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Steven Lawrence Kaplan FoundationCA24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Steven Lawrence Kaplan Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to A R K a Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to A R K a 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.

About A R K a Family Foundation

How much does A R K a Family Foundation give?
A R K a Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does A R K a Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (12%).
Who are A R K a Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: University of San Diego ($97k), Museum Associates ($50k), Shelter Partnership Inc ($22k).
Does A R K a Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does A R K a Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as A R K a Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Steven Lawrence Kaplan Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation.
Where is A R K a Family Foundation based?
A R K a Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 78 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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