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Arndt-Powell Family Foundation at a glance

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Arndt-Powell Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$200
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Animals$1kHealth$500Environment$400International$400Human Services$300Recreation & Sports$200Housing & Shelter$100Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$175
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200
Compassion International$200
Colorado Childrens Hospital$200
Adaptive Sports Association$200
National Wildlife Federation$200
ASPCA$175
Individual grant recipient$100
American Cancer Society$100
La Plata Open Space Conservancy$100
Disabled American Veterans$100
The Big Mutt Network$100
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%American Cancer Society: $100 → 15%Team Rubicon: $100 → 14%Natural Resources Defense Council: $100 → 17%Disabled American Veterans: $100 → 14%St Judes Chuldrens Hospital: $100 → 17%National Ski Patrol: $100 → 7%Compassion International: $200 → 9%Colorado Childrens Hospital: $200 → 10%Neighbors in Need Association St Ma: $100 → 12%Christ Presbyterian Church: $50 → 15%ASPCA Guardians: $400 → 17%Environmental Defense Fund: $100 → 14%Compassion International: $100 → 9%Wolfwood Refuge: $200 → 12%Pima Animal Care Center: $100 → 15%ASPCA: $175 → 17%The Ocean Conservancy: $100 → 14%The Big Mutt Network: $100 → 15%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

NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Arndt-Powell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Arndt-Powell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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5
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
6
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
7
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientColorado Childrens Hospital: $200 · OtherColorado Childrens HospitalIndividual grant recipient: $200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAdaptive Sports Association: $200 · OtherAdaptive Sports AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPima Animal Care Center: $100 · OtherPima Animal Care CenterBIG MUTT NETWORK: $100 · OtherBIG MUTT NETWORKAmerican Cancer Society: $100 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyNeighbors in Need Association St Ma: $100 · OtherNeighbors in Need Association St MaSt Judes Chuldrens Hospital: $100 · OtherSt Judes Chuldrens HospitalDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $100 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS+1 more: $50 · OtherOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $100 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVA…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL …La Plata Open Space Conservancy: $100 · EnvironmentLa Plata Open …NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILD…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $175 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN …Compassion International Incorporated: $300 · InternationalCompassion…TEAM RUBICON INC: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $100 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · Health
Other$1,750Environment$400Animals$375International$300Public Safety & Disaster$100Philanthropy$100Human Services$100Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Plata Open Space Conservancy: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arndt-Powell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arndt-Powell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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