Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Arnold Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $583k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Arnold Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $48k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $81k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $64k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $60k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $79k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $60k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marley Project In | $40,000 | 9 | 37% |
| Steps to Hope Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Care Ring Inc | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Family Housing | $24,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foothills Humane Society Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Childrens Svc Ctr of Wyom Valley Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marley Project In | $40,000 | 9 | 37% |
| Steps to Hope Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Care Ring Inc | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Family Housing | $24,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foothills Humane Society Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Childrens Svc Ctr of Wyom Valley Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of Tryon Foundation Inc | $8,400 | 2 | 6% |
| King's College | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Veterans Healing Farm | $4,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Synergy in Action Inc | $4,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Spartanburg Science Center | $4,400 | 1 | 2% |
| Operation Hope | $4,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Roof Above Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arnold Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Arnold Foundation
- How much does Arnold Foundation give?
- Arnold Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $48,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arnold Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (29%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Arnold Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Marley Project In ($40k), Steps to Hope Inc ($38k), Care Ring Inc ($33k).
- Does Arnold Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arnold Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arnold Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Arnold Foundation based?
- Arnold Foundation is based in PA.
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