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Arkay Foundation Inc at a glance

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Arkay Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$396kReligion$257kHealth$216kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$26kEnvironment$20kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$22,300
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$20,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$20,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$10,000
BERKSHIRE SCHOOL$10,000
COLUMBUS ACADEMY$5,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC$5,000
COLORADO COLLEGE$2,000
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS$1,000
CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL$800
DAF GIVING 360$500
ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND$500
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$500
KERA$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES FOUNDATIONFAITH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPICE: $300 → 14%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES FOUNDATIONFAITH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPICE: $200 → 14%BRAVELOVE INC: $500 → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $500 → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICE: $500 → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICE: $250 → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 14%BRAVELOVE: $200 → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $7k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $2k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $2k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $2k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $500 → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $100 → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $100 → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$892k · 50 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
54

Total granted

$892k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

76%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    7× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +65%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MA
    MD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • TB
    Texas Book Festivalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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3
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

—
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
7
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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8
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
9
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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10
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

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11
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Highland Park Library. 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

79 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. 79 of the 116 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
55/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $249,650 · OtherST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCHDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONMD ANDERSON: $36,000 · OtherMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $20,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $20,000 · Other+54 more: $103,961 · Other+54 moreVanderbilt University: $170,500 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMYColumbus School for Girls: $45,000 · EducationColumbus School for GirlsEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $42,800 · EducationEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INCTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INCPELOTONIA: $11,750 · Education+9 more: $10,761 · EducationBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $83,600 · HealthBaylor Hea…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,700 · HealthCHILDREN'S…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,000 · Health+10 more: $6,400 · Health+10 moreBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $27,700 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $6,700 · Arts & CultureBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEducational Opportunities Fund Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $3,500 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2,672 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,136 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $21,300 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $13,500 · Human Services+6 more: $3,150 · Human ServicesTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $7,150 · PhilanthropyTexas Cultural Trust Council: $6,300 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $1,900 · PhilanthropyDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,653 · EnvironmentTaking Care of Texas: $5,000 · Environment
Other$465,611Education$350,811Health$101,700Arts & Culture$65,708Human Services$37,950Philanthropy$16,350Environment$15,653

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 budgetVanderbilt University: $170,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $83,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus School for Girls: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $42,800 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $27,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $21,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,653 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $7,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $6,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $6,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTaking Care of Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTWIGS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2,672 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUEST: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $2,126 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Valley Art Guild: $2,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION PARK CITIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,450 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAll Angels Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $1,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING 4 A CURE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVoice of Hope Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE MAN'S TREASURE: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVELOVE INC: $700 over 2y, 0.2% 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
  • Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
  • Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
  • Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
  • Who funds Educational Opportunities Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds TWIGS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds EQUEST ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Shirley & William S M…Hegi Family FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Dallas Jewish Communi…Theodore and Beulah B…The Addy Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX43× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shirley & William S McIntyre Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Addy 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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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