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Mighty Arrow Family Foundation

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
71
Grants FY2024
62
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 66
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Mighty Arrow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving70$1.7M69%
FY202362$1.5M31%
FY202266$1.7M32%
FY202156$1.5M50%
FY202047$1.3M70%
FY201935$699k69%
FY201818$409k61%
FY201718$465kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.7MFood & Nutrition$949kPublic Benefit$685kEducation$592kCommunity Improvement$476kPhilanthropy$257kCrime & Legal$250kYouth Development$227kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc$234,70051%
American Whitewater$225,94653%
Outdoor Alliance$225,00064%
Land Core$185,000317%
American Rivers Inc$185,00060%
Community Builders$150,00067%
Ceres Inc$135,00040%
Mad Agriculture$126,50052%
Trees Water and People$125,00042%
Colorado Open Lands$125,00050%
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All grantees of Mighty Arrow Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc$234,70051%
American Whitewater$225,94653%
Outdoor Alliance$225,00064%
Land Core$185,000317%
American Rivers Inc$185,00060%
Community Builders$150,00067%
Ceres Inc$135,00040%
Mad Agriculture$126,50052%
Trees Water and People$125,00042%
Colorado Open Lands$125,00050%
The Marshall Project Inc$125,00040%
Quivira Coalition Inc$115,00042%
Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed$110,05052%
Earth Island Institute Inc$110,00030%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$110,00030%
As You Sow$105,00041%
Western Resource Advocates$100,20040%
Multiplier$100,00030%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$100,00011%
Voto Latino Inc$100,00010%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$100,00021%
Mi Familia En Accion$100,00012%
Water Foundation$100,00020%
State Leadership Project$100,00021%
Colorado Clean Energy Cluster$95,000484%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$91,00041%
Ecdysis Foundation$90,00032%
Colorado State University Foundation$88,00040%
American Forest Foundation$76,00030%
California Farmlink$75,00031%
4point0 Schools$75,00031%
Greenwave Organization Corp$75,00030%
Urban Tilth$75,00030%
Alliance for Community Development of the San Francisco Bay Area$75,00036%
Cycles of Change$75,00034%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation$75,00031%
The Mosaic Project$75,00032%
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance$75,00031%
The Sonoran Institute Inc$75,00031%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc$75,00030%
The Ember Alliance$75,00032%
Homeboy Industries$75,00030%
Re-Volv$75,00033%
San Diego Food System Alliance$75,00033%
Outdoor Afro$75,00031%
World Central Kitchen Inc$75,00030%
Regenerative Organic Alliance$75,00033%
Northern Arizona University Foundation$65,00020%
Wilderness Workshop$55,00031%
Western Landowners Alliance$51,50032%
Cottonwood Institute$50,0002n/a
Alliance for Safety and Justice$50,00020%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$50,00020%
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks$50,00011%
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center$50,000239%
Waterside Workshops$50,00024%
Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation$50,00023%
Advanced Energy Institute$50,00011%
Kitchen Table Advisors$50,00011%
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$50,00021%
Grid Alternatives Colorado Inc$50,0001n/a
Worth Rises Inc$50,00022%
Conservation Colorado$50,00021%
Bionutrient Food Association Inc$50,000213%
One Arizona$50,00010%
New Belgium Coworker Assistance Fund Inc$50,000111%
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc$50,00021%
Equal Opportunity Schools$45,00020%
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Educational and Charitable Foundation Inc$41,00023%
Tribal Eco Restoration Alliance$35,00012%
Slow Money Institute Inc$33,70438%
Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association$30,00010%
Honnold Foundation$27,50011%
Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins$25,00018%
Transportation Choices Coalition$25,00013%
American Solar Energy Society Inc$25,00012%
Icast$25,00010%
Coyote Central$25,00013%
La Cocina$25,00011%
Trout Unlimited Inc$25,00010%
Voteorg$25,00010%
Heal Food Alliance$25,0001n/a
Sogorea Te Land Trust$25,00010%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$25,00011%
Uncharted$25,00011%
The Ica Group Inc$25,00012%
Safer West County$25,0001n/a
Piikani Lodge Health Institute$20,00012%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$20,00010%
Fort Collins Mural Project$20,0002n/a
SOIL Sangre de Cristo$18,147124%
Big Green$17,5001n/a
Larimer Conservation District$16,5001n/a
Baykeeper$15,00011%
National Forest Foundation$15,00010%
Glen Canyon Institute$15,00023%
Mufindi Orphans Inc$10,0001n/a
River Network$10,00010%
The Aspen Institute Inc$10,00010%
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$10,00010%
We Own It Inc$10,00012%
Philanthropy Colorado$8,45011%
Hampshire College Trustees$7,50010%
National Wildlife Federation$6,00020%
Well Done Foundation Inc$6,00010%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp$5,00010%
Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling$5,00011%
Toniic Institute$5,00010%
Planet Women$5,00010%
International League of Conservation Photographers$5,00011%
Vons Vision Inc$5,00010%
Mujeres de Colores$5,00015%
Hawkwatch International Inc$5,00010%
Mothers Without Borders$5,00011%
Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc$5,00011%
Colorado Watershed Assembly$4,25021%
Only One Inc$3,00010%
Friends of Youth and Nature$3,00013%
Wolverine Farm Publishing$3,000115%
New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc$2,69420%
Justice Funders$2,50010%
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture$2,50010%
Riversedge West$2,50010%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$2,00010%
Kindle Project$2,00010%
Project Drawdown$1,50010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$1,50010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,50010%
Community Ventures Corporation$1,00010%
Northern Colorado Foodshed Project$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mighty Arrow Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 121 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Young Farmers Coalition Inc: $234,700 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $225,946 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetOutdoor Alliance: $225,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetLand Core: $185,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $185,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Builders: $150,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCeres Inc: $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMad Agriculture: $126,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTrees Water and People: $125,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Marshall Project Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQuivira Coalition Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCoalition for the Poudre River Watershed: $110,050 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAs You Sow: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $100,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMultiplier: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Organizing Project Education Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVoto Latino Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Alliance Education Fund Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMi Familia En Accion: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWater Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetState Leadership Project: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetColorado Clean Energy Cluster: $95,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetConservation Colorado Education Fund: $91,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEcdysis Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $88,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forest Foundation: $76,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Farmlink: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget4point0 Schools: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGreenwave Organization Corp: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Tilth: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Community Development of the San Francisco Bay Area: $75,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCycles of Change: $75,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetClimate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Mosaic Project: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Sonoran Institute Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ember Alliance: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRe-Volv: $75,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSan Diego Food System Alliance: $75,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOutdoor Afro: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRegenerative Organic Alliance: $75,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNorthern Arizona University Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 121.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA48.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Gates Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community 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.

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Find your warmest path to Mighty Arrow Family Foundation 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.

About Mighty Arrow Family Foundation

How much does Mighty Arrow Family Foundation give?
Mighty Arrow Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $1,721,207 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mighty Arrow Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are Mighty Arrow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Young Farmers Coalition Inc ($235k), American Whitewater ($226k), Outdoor Alliance ($225k).
Does Mighty Arrow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mighty Arrow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mighty Arrow Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Impactassetsinc, Clif Family Foundation.
Where is Mighty Arrow Family Foundation based?
Mighty Arrow Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 208 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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