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Ark Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,250
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Ark Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$4k0%
FY20238$13k63%
FY20228$11k63%
FY202111$25k91%
FY20207$9k100%
FY20192$2k100%
FY20183$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$24kEducation$14kReligion$9kHealth$8kFood & Nutrition$7kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ark Charities Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnchor Hope: $3,600 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMountain Top Youth Camp Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRun 5 Feed 5: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChatham Trades Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPTA North Carolina Congress Four Oaks Elementary School PTA: $850 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFamily Room Foster Care Resource Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barnabas Network: $35 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ark Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ark Charities Inc 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 Ark Charities Inc

How much does Ark Charities Inc give?
Ark Charities Inc reported 2 grants totaling $3,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ark Charities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Education (20%), Religion (13%).
Who are Ark Charities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Montgomery County Schools ($6k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($5k), Anchor Hope ($4k).
Does Ark Charities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ark Charities Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ark Charities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ark Charities Inc based?
Ark Charities Inc is based in NC.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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