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.

Arnold Foundation

Arnold Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arnold Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

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$178kHealth$166kYouth Development$56kHuman Services$46kHousing & Shelter$46kAnimals$23kArts & Culture$22kInternational$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$583k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STEPS TO HOPE	$7,000
THE MARLEY PROJECT	$5,000
ROTARY CLUB OF TRYON FOUNDATION	$4,000
UPSTATE COMMUNITY HOSPICE HOUSE	$4,000
THE CARE RING	$4,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$4,000
CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING	$4,000
FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
EVERHART MUSEUM	$2,000

02The need

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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$527k · 26 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$527k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+7%

Still filing today

46%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther

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

TM
THE MARLEY PROJECT IN
9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +13% · 37% of their budget
ST
STEPS TO HOPE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +328%
CR
Care Ring Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +165%

Funded once

VH
Veterans Healing Farm
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -27%
SI
SYNERGY IN ACTION INC
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +7%
TF
TRYON FINE ARTS
one grant, 2024 · $4k

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.

Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals

Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.

Human Services

Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services

Caramore Community

To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.

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Hospitality House of Charlotte

To provide the comforts of home for families of seriously ill loved ones by offering affordable accommodations in the heart of charlotte's medical community.

Health

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc

Create a community where individuals impacted by homelessness, poverty, and unemployment are empowered through our transitional programs and transformed by the love and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Food & Nutrition

Charlotte Behavioral Health Care Inc

Partnering to instill hope, inspire growth and embrace life.

Health

The Shepherds Center of Charlotte

The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.

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Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Marley Project in. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

16/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$340,400Health$97,000Education$48,000Human Services$36,800Arts & Culture$21,000Animals$20,000International$6,000

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

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

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