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Ark Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANK$2,250
MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS$1,500
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BARNABAS NETWORK: $35 → 16%FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 6 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
26

Total granted

$20k
$49k

Still filing today

0%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k
  • BO
    BIG OAK CHURCH OF GOD
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
  • MG
    MORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2024 · $4k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • HF
    HOMELESS FAMILY EXTENDED STAY AMERI
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +67%
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.

1
Second Home Support Network

To provide tangible support and care to foster, adoptive, and kinship families in the Raleigh/Durham area.

Health
2
Foster Village East Tn

Charitable

Human Services
3
Snuggled in Hope Quilts Inc

Make and provide new handmade quilts, pillowcases, and other comfort items vulnerable children.

Recreation & Sports
4
The Lords Table a Ministry of Rccg

Food Pantry for the Community to provide food and other household items, including back to school items for Kids.

Religion
5
Raleigh's Place

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…

Human Services
6
Restoring Hope Center Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Helping Hands 4 Kids

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…

Community Improvement
8
Closet of Hope

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…

Human Services
9
Kids for Life Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Fostering Hope

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.

Human Services
11
Bridge of Hope Ministries Inc

Provide safe & loving home for children

Human Services
12
Youth and Family Crossroads

Transitional and Outreach services to homeless, care for families in crisis

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Room Foster Care Resource Center; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,660 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $5,750 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLSHOMELESS FAMILY EXTENDED STAY AMERI: $5,002 · OtherHOMELESS FAMILY EXTENDED STAY AMERIBIG OAK CHURCH OF GOD: $4,200 · OtherBIG OAK CHURCH OF GODMORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANK: $3,750 · OtherMORNING GLORY MINISTRIES FOOD BANKRANDLEMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $3,750 · OtherRANDLEMAN HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $2,885 · OtherREASHELLE MADKINS ATLAS DEVELOPMENT: $2,850 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $2,650 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherBIG OAK CHURCH WOMEN MINISTRIES: $2,500 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS RENT AND UTILITIES: $2,430 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,880 · Other+11 more: $7,915 · Other+11 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS …NARIAHS WAY FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthNARIAHS W…ANCHOR HOPE: $3,600 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN TOP YOUTH CAMP INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRUN 5 FEED 5: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCHATHAM TRADES INC: $1,000 · EmploymentFAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $500 · Human ServicesTHE BARNABAS NETWORK: $35 · Human Services
Other$54,722Health$5,500Philanthropy$3,600Recreation & Sports$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000Employment$1,000Human Services$535

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

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
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 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 NARIAHS WAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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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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.

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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