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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 FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $766k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $875k
$25,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CSU FOUNDATION PAUL HUDNUT IMPACT MBA FELLOWSHIP$100,000
GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND$75,000
NBB CO-WORKER FUND$50,000
CSU CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION$50,000
GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE-RETURNING RAPIDS PROJECT$50,000
TREES WATER PEOPLE$50,000
NEVADA ALLIANCE$50,000
ONE ARIZONA$50,000
CALCAN (EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE)$50,000
CSU CLIMATE INITIATIVE (CSU FOUNDATION)$50,000
GRID ALTERNATIVES COLORADO$50,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT (COS)$50,000
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNDERGROUND NETWORKS$50,000
WATER FOUNDATION$50,000
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–23, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 8%MUFUNDI ORPHANS: $10k → 15%WE OWN IT: $10k → 10%VON'S VISION: $5k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%NBB COWORKER ASSISTANCE FUND: $50k → 11%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

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
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PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
NM
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NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 84 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
70

Total granted

$6.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+24%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • NY
    NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $235k · revenue +85%
  • AW
    American Whitewater
    5× · 2020–2024 · $226k · revenue +36%
  • OA
    Outdoor Alliance
    6× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • TO
    TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • VL
    VOTO LATINO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • MF
    MI FAMILIA EN ACCIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
3
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
9
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
10
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
11
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation. 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

134 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. 134 of the 208 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/134
Grantees still filing
93/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRID ALTERNATIVES: $275,000 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIVESTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP: $215,000 · Other+114 more: $3,711,110 · Other+114 moreAmerican Whitewater: $225,946 · EnvironmentAmerican WhitewaterOutdoor Alliance: $225,000 · EnvironmentOutdoor AllianceLAND CORE: $185,000 · EnvironmentLAND COREAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $185,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCCERES INC: $135,000 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $125,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $125,000 · EnvironmentQUIVIRA COALITION INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED: $110,050 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $110,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $100,000 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Environment+26 more: $1,041,750 · Environment+26 moreGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationGEORGIA A…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $88,000 · EducationCOLORADO …CALIFORNIA FARMLINK: $75,000 · EducationCALIFORNI…4point0 Schools: $75,000 · Education4point0 S…GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $75,000 · EducationGREENWAVE…THE MOSAIC PROJECT: $75,000 · EducationTHE MOSAI…THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · EducationTHE SONOR…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationNORTHERN …THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE DEMOC…EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS: $45,000 · EducationEQUAL OPP…+4 more: $40,194 · EducationNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $234,700 · Food & NutritionMAD AGRICULTURE: $126,500 · Food & NutritionSan Diego Food System Alliance: $75,000 · Food & NutritionRegenerative Organic Alliance: $75,000 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $45,647 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY BUILDERS: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementICAST: $25,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINA: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $100,000 · Civil RightsWORTH RISES INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsCONSERVATION COLORADO: $50,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA: $50,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORG: $25,000 · Civil RightsTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHeal Food Alliance: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY COLORADO: $8,450 · Philanthropy+3 more: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,201,110Environment$2,892,746Education$763,194Food & Nutrition$697,847Community Improvement$500,000Civil Rights$275,000Philanthropy$253,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUTDOOR AFRO: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Whitewater ↗
  • Who funds Outdoor Alliance ↗
  • Who funds LAND CORE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
  • Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
  • Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Clean Energy Cluster ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMLINK ↗
  • Who funds 4point0 Schools ↗
  • Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗

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.

PatagoniaorgImpactassetsincClif Family FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…Resources Legacy FundWalton Family Foundat…The Keith Campbell Fo…Community Foundation …Gates Family Foundati…The Nature ConservancySilicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Mighty Arrow Family Foundation?

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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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