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Arrow Impact

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.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Employment$11MEducation$7.4MPhilanthropy$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.6MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.4MInternational$800kYouth Development$750kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+22 grants · $11M
$300,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PER SCHOLAS$2,500,000
NEW PROFIT INC$1,000,000
NEWSCHOOLS VENTURE FUND$750,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$500,000
ECHOING GREEN$500,000
PHILANTHROPY VENTURES FOUNDATION$500,000
TALKINGPOINTS$500,000
BRAVEN$400,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$400,000
POLICYLINK$350,000
ALL OUR KIN$327,500
RIVET SCHOOL$300,000
COMMONLIT$300,000
HOUSING CONNECTOR$300,000
LENA$300,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MERIT AMERICA: $250k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $250k → 14%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $502k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 17 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

$20M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+2%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PS
    PER SCHOLAS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10M · revenue +54%
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +56%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BM
    BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $502k · revenue +2%
  • EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +88%
  • OM
    ONE MILLION DEGREES
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -68%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
4
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education
7
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
8
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
11
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
12
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Leaders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipAffordable Housing Developm…Government Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%62%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,522

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
22/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PER SCHOLAS INC — $10,000,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC+2 more — $200,000 · EmploymentECHOING GREEN INC — $1,000,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCTALKINGPOINTS — $900,000 · EducationTALKINGPOINTSNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $750,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FUNDALL OUR KIN INC — $652,500 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCLENA FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationLENA FOUNDATIONBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $510,000 · EducationBay Area Hybrid College Init…PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC — $500,000 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPA…COOP Careers Inc — $425,000 · EducationCOOP Careers IncEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $300,000 · EducationCOMMONLIT INC — $300,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $300,000 · EducationACCELERATE - THE NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING — $300,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREES — $300,000 · Education+4 more — $900,000 · Education+4 moreTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCI…PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC …TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT …ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $450,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PH…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOU…Lever for Change — $250,000 · PhilanthropyLever for Chan…FFWD — $250,000 · PhilanthropyFFWD+1 more — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTEACHSTART — $500,000 · OtherTEACHSTARTNEW YORK UNIVERSITY (PARENTCORPS) — $500,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVER…PROJECT BASTA — $300,000 · OtherPROJECT BASTATHE HIGHLAND PROJECT — $280,000 · OtherTHE HIGHLAND PR…Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual gran…TIDES FOUNDATION (CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT RESILIENCE FUND) — $250,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIO…REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION (MAYORS FOR A GUARANTEED INCOME) — $250,000 · OtherREINVENT STOCKT…SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (COVID-19 REGIONAL RESPONSE FUND) — $250,000 · OtherSILICON VALLEY …BASTA INC — $200,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (BABY'S FIRST YEARS STUDY) — $200,000 · OtherBRAVEN INC — $750,000 · OtherBRAVEN INCUPSOLVE INC — $150,000 · Other+5 more — $375,000 · Other+5 moreNEW PROFIT INC — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFI…POLICYLINK — $350,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLIN…TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS — $250,000 · Community ImprovementTRUST NEI…GREENLIGHT FUND INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGH…CAMELBACK VENTURES — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCAMELBACK…BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $502,000 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERICA — $500,000 · Human ServicesTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING CONNECTOR — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 · Housing & Shelter
Employment$10,200,000Education$7,737,500Philanthropy$3,800,000Other$4,255,000Community Improvement$2,500,000Human Services$1,002,000Housing & Shelter$850,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $10,000,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $1,000,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS — $900,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $750,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $750,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC — $652,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLENA FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $510,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $502,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMERIT AMERICA — $500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC — $500,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc — $425,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $350,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $300,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMONLIT INC — $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHOUSING CONNECTOR — $300,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetACCELERATE - THE NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING — $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLever for Change — $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS — $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFFWD — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCAMELBACK VENTURES — $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMB HIRE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUPSOLVE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLIFT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gates FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Crankstart FoundationCharles and Lynn Schu…Robin Hood FoundationWalton Family Foundat…ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…Overdeck Family Found…Charles and Helen Sch…
Gates FoundationWA26.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arrow Impact funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Arrow Impact?

Find your warmest path to Arrow Impact 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines