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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 FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Public Benefit$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.9MEnvironment$953kCivil Rights$941kEducation$316kCommunity Improvement$218kArts & Culture$167kHuman Services$118kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hopewell Fund$62,500
Tides Foundation$62,500
Arizona Center for Empowerment$62,500
Institute for a Progressive Nevada$62,500
Voter Participation Center$62,500
Worker Power Institute$62,500
Asian Community Development Council$62,500
American Independent Foundation$62,500
Earth Rights Institute$30,000
The Hometown Outreach Fund Inc$20,000
Mission Local SF Mission Local$15,000
Protect Democracy Project$15,000
Rise Education Fund$15,000
Voter Participation Center$15,000
Voter Participation Center$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Carolina Federation Fund: $50k → 11%Covenant House California: $6k → 14%The Brigid Alliance: $4k → 17%Gathering for Women - Monterey: $1k → 12%The Carmel Foundation: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 48 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
111

Total granted

$3.9M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Civil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationInternationalOther

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

  • VR
    VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $578k · revenue +96%
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $258k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • LO
    League of Conservation Voters Educ. Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $380k
  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $261k · revenue +111%
  • LC
    Lawyers Comm for Civil Rights Under Law Civil Rights Under Law
    one grant, 2019 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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12
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Barbara Master Chorale. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersPregnancy Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/141
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,424

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 189 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/134
Grantees still filing
80/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $1,000,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTLeague of Conservation Voters Educ. Fund — $380,000 · OtherLeague of Conservation Voters Educ. …Lawyers Comm for Civil Rights Under Law Civil Rights Under Law — $250,000 · OtherLawyers Comm for Civil Rights Under …EARTH RIGHTS INSTITUTE INC — $170,000 · OtherEARTH RIGHTS INSTITUTE INC+102 more — $1,318,550 · Other+102 moreTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $578,323 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CE…PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $261,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATIONPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $258,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTVOTEORG — $231,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $112,500 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $100,000 · Civil Rights+20 more — $560,000 · Civil Rights+20 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,355,500 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDEARTHJUSTICE — $75,000 · Environment+21 more — $283,500 · Environment+21 moreTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,301,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $81,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $62,500 · Philanthropy+5 more — $164,400 · Philanthropy+5 moreCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $201,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Common Ground — $125,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $50,000 · Public BenefitThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $15,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitWE ARE DOWN HOME — $105,000 · EducationWAY TO RISE — $55,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $50,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC — $50,000 · EducationREED INSTITUTE — $22,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $12,000 · Education+4 more — $19,500 · EducationWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $112,500 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $62,500 · Community ImprovementFAIR COUNT INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $11,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,118,550Civil Rights$2,300,823Environment$1,714,000Philanthropy$1,609,400Public Benefit$406,000Education$334,000Community Improvement$236,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,355,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,301,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $578,323 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $261,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $258,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVOTEORG — $231,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $201,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $112,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $112,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $105,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $81,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $62,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $62,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAY TO RISE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $52,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc — $23,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREED INSTITUTE — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIA — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncMarin Community Found…ImpactassetsincThe San Francisco Fou…Monterey Peninsula Fo…Hopewell FundPark Foundation IncGordon E and Betty I …Marguerite Casey Foun…
Tides FoundationCA33.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arkay Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Arkay Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arkay Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines