· Private foundation
Arctos 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $145,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH | $100,000 |
| PHOENIX-BUILDING FOR HOMELESS | $75,000 |
| CHIBE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA | $50,000 |
| MARTHAS KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| GROVES ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD | $30,000 |
| SO ALL MAY EAT | $30,000 |
| THE LENFEST INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PHILLY UNKOWN PROJECT | $20,000 |
| THE BLAKE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $300k · revenue +10%
- CCCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE3× · 2022–2024 · $295k · revenue +41%
- TBTHE BLAKE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - WELLNESS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $150k
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%
- IIiFoster Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +115%
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.
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.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds iFoster Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
- Who funds AT THE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds COLONY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arctos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arctos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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