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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Arizona Center for Empowerment$62,500
Voter Participation Center$62,500
Asian Community Development Council$62,500
Worker Power Institute$62,500
Hopewell Fund$62,500
Institute for a Progressive Nevada$62,500
American Independent Foundation$62,500
Tides Foundation$62,500
Earth Rights Institute$30,000
The Hometown Outreach Fund Inc$20,000
Protect Democracy Project$15,000
Protect Democracy Project$15,000
Rise Education Fund$15,000
Rise Education Fund$15,000
Mission Local SF Mission Local$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 48 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
$2.6M

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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 189 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $1,321,050 · 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 RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $100,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $100,000 · Civil Rights+20 more: $560,000 · Civil Rights+20 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,355,500 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTHEARTHJUSTICE: $75,000 · Environment+20 more: $233,500 · Environment+20 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,301,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $89,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…HOPEWELL 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$3,121,050Civil Rights$2,300,823Environment$1,764,000Philanthropy$1,617,400Public Benefit$406,000Education$334,000Community Improvement$236,000

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 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 budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $112,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE: $112,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $105,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $89,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA: $62,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $62,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $52,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetTHE HOMETOWN OUTREACH FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 3y, 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.

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.

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

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 Arkay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 189 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.

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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home