· Private foundation
Ark Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANK | $2,250 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $535) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2024 · $6k
- BOBIG OAK CHURCH OF GOD2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
- MGMORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2024 · $4k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
- HFHOMELESS FAMILY EXTENDED STAY AMERIone grant, 2022 · $5k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide tangible support and care to foster, adoptive, and kinship families in the Raleigh/Durham area.
Charitable
Make and provide new handmade quilts, pillowcases, and other comfort items vulnerable children.
Food Pantry for the Community to provide food and other household items, including back to school items for Kids.
Raleigh's place is a christ-centered foster care ministry that exisits to live the gospel by loving the fatherless. we serve chilton and surrounding counties as we provide and support foster homes, host a free summer camp, provide clothing…
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Our organization helps families and children with tangible support throughout the year. Our funds go directly to providing food, clothing, basic living needs, backpacks and other things they need to help them get through their day. Each…
Closet of Hope is a place where Foster,kinship, and adoptive families can come to find clothing, shoes, toiletries, and other items that they may need. All items are free to these families for children in their care. Like our page for more…
Kids for life, inc. is dedicated to serving children in foster care in marion county, al and surrounding counties by providing a safe and nurturing environment, inspiring hope through compassionate support and empowering every child to…
Fostering hope exists to serve and support the local foster care community. this includes children in foster care, foster families, and foster care agency workers.
Provide safe & loving home for children
Transitional and Outreach services to homeless, care for families in crisis
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Room Foster Care Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Top Youth Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds RUN 5 FEED 5 ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS FOUR OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NARIAHS WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ark Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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