How much does Arches Foundation give?

Arches Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $454,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Arches Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Environment (32%), Public Benefit (6%).

Who are Arches Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carbondale Clay Center ($531k), Anderson Ranch Arts Center ($104k), The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($99k).

Does Arches Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arches 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 Arches Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Alpenglow Foundation.

Where is Arches Foundation based?

Arches Foundation is based in CO.

Arches Foundation

Arches Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arches 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.

$454k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$226k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$913kEnvironment$866kPublic Benefit$173kInternational$168kCivil Rights$163kEducation$133kScience & Tech$101kHealth$78kOther$0

02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k74 grants · $124k
$10k–50k8 grants · $104k
$50k–250k1 grant · $226k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER	$226,000
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS	$15,000
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING	$15,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE	$15,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUN	$15,000
MOVEMENT VOTER FUND	$12,000
ON THE MEDIA NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO	$12,000
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER	$10,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$8,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC	$8,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE	$7,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES	$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 119 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

119 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119

Total granted

$2.4M

$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+54%

Still filing today

67%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

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CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $531k · revenue +854% · 30% of their budget
AR
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +29%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +12%

Funded once

AF
ASSOCIATION FOR THE CHRONICALLY MEN
one grant, 2018 · $55k
AU
ALFRED UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +20%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

04Its 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.

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment

Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education

Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment

Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights

Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education

Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rosenfield Art Foundation of Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 187 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

109/113

Grantees still filing

90/113

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,202,350Education$649,950Arts & Culture$281,456International$270,000Environment$151,950Crime & Legal$89,500Public Benefit$84,589

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO63.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · The Flunison Fund · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · The Thendara Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arches Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arches Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home