California · Private foundation
Arkay 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.
- $820k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 73
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Arkay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $690k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $752k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.4M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voter Registration Project | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $578,323 | 4 | 2% |
| Priorities USA Foundation | $261,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $258,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Voteorg | $231,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Common Cause Education Fund | $201,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Earth Rights Institute Inc | $170,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Center for Common Ground | $125,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Arizona Center for Empowerment | $112,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Worker Power Institute | $112,500 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 129 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arkay Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Park Foundation Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arkay Foundation
- How much does Arkay Foundation give?
- Arkay Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $820,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 73 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Arkay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (31%), Philanthropy (25%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Arkay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Voter Registration Project ($1.0M), The Voter Participation Center ($578k), Priorities USA Foundation ($261k).
- Does Arkay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arkay 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 Arkay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Arkay Foundation based?
- Arkay Foundation is based in CA.
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