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The Arc of the United States

THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES (the arc) promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

$869k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$781kEducation$353kEmployment$343kCivil Rights$314kYouth Development$115kCommunity Improvement$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $743k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$13,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ARC HARRIS COUNTY$60,543
THE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM$50,000
THE ARC OF SOUTH FLORIDA$32,000
THE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND$32,000
RIDGE AREA ARC$30,000
THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA$30,000
THE ARC MICHIGAN$27,000
THE ARC OF UNION COUNTY$22,000
NOBLE ARC$22,000
SERTOMA (NEWSTAR) SERVICES$22,000
THE ARC OF DAVIDSON COUNTY AND GREATER NASHVILLE$22,000
THE ARC LANE COUNTY$22,000
THE ARC OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$22,000
THE ARC OF SAN FRANCISCO$20,332
ADVOCACY DENVER$20,000
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ARC CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%THE ARC OF FAYETTE COUNTY: $12k → 17%THE ARC OF VENTURA COUNTY: $12k → 10%THE ARC OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $12k → 11%AHRC - NASSAU: $15k → 6%AHRC - NEW YORK CITY: $45k → 17%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $30k → 15%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $15k → 11%RIDGE AREA ARC: $30k → 16%STAR INC: $25k → 9%THE ARC OF WELD COUNTY: $35k → 9%THE ARC OF LARIMER COUNTY: $18k → 11%NOBLE ARC: $22k → 16%HOLLYRIDGE: $12k → 10%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $23k → 15%THE ARC OF MISSISSIPPI: $14k → 23%THE ARC OF LOUDON COUNTY: $13k → 4%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $12k → 12%THE ARC OF SAN FRANCISCO: $13k → 10%AHRC - NASSAU: $13k → 6%AHRC - NEW YORK CITY: $28k → 17%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $30k → 15%THE ARC OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $15k → 14%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $15k → 11%RIDGE AREA ARC: $30k → 16%STAR INC: $18k → 9%THE ARC OF WELD COUNTY: $18k → 9%NOBLE ARC: $22k → 16%THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA: $15k → 15%THE ARC OF TEXAS: $14k → 10%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $25k → 15%THE ARC OF THE GLADES: $13k → 11%RIDGE AREA ARC: $23k → 16%STAR INC: $15k → 9%THE ARC TENNESSEE: $40k → 14%THE ARC OF WELD COUNTY: $18k → 9%THE ARC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $18k → 16%AHRC - NEW YORK CITY: $18k → 17%RIDGE AREA ARC: $19k → 16%THE ARC OF DAVIDSON COUNTY AND GREATER NASHVILLE: $22k → 14%THE ARC OF WELD COUNTY: $18k → 9%THE ARC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $18k → 16%THE ARC OF DAVIDSON COUNTY AND GREATER NASHVILLE: $22k → 14%THE ARC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $18k → 16%THE ARC TENNESSEE: $19k → 14%THE ARC OF INDIANA: $23k → 16%THE ARC OF INDIANA: $14k → 16%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

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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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 63 repeat orgs$790k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
47

Total granted

$3.4M
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

94%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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
Human ServicesHealthEmploymentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TA
    THE ARC OF NEW MEXICO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $413k · revenue +24%
  • TA
    THE ARC NATURE COAST INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +38%
  • RA
    RIDGE AREA ARC INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $118k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • ND
    National Disability Rights Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • AO
    ARC OF LARIMER COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +46%

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
Arc of the Ozarks

To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.

2
Arc of West Central Colorado

The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…

Human Services
3
The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health
4
The Arc Alliance Advocacy Services

To assist people of all ages with intellecutal and developmental disabilities to obtain the rights and resources they require to become, to the fullest-extent possible, independent, self-sufficient, participating and contributing members…

Civil Rights
5
The Arc of Adams County Inc

To protect, preserve and promote the human civil rigths of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively support their full inclusion and participation in the commnunity throughout their lifetimes.

6
The Arc of Crawford County Inc

The ARC of Crawford County, Inc. advocates for the rights of citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities and enhances their lives by promoting maximum independence and affording them opportunities for enrichment.

7
The Arc Community Advocates

We exist as an advocacy organization to make it possible for each person with a developmental disability to participate fully in all aspects of community and to support the effort of each individual to determine their own future.

Human Services
8
Arc Services of Macomb Inc

The organization specializes in providing services to individuals with disabilities primarily through vocational, social, educational and residential programs.

9
The United Arc Inc

See schedule othe united arc supports people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities in achieving the universal goals of inclusion, choice and independence. all people are valued and deserve full access to opportunities in…

Human Services
10
The Arc of Southeast Iowa

Provide services to people with disabilities in the local area.

11
Arch Inc

Make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the…

Human Services
12
The Arc of Colorado

The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesDevelopmental Disabilities …Local Food System Organizat…Youth Development Centers
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 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/129
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,436

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

124 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 124 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/124
Grantees still filing
98/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ARC OF NEW MEXICO — $413,127 · OtherTHE ARC OF NEW MEXICOTHE ARC NATURE COAST INC — $157,500 · OtherTHE ARC NATURE COAST INCARC OF LANE COUNTY — $117,250 · OtherThe Arc of Harris County — $113,593 · OtherYOUTH IMPACT — $95,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC — $89,000 · OtherTHE ARC MUSKEGON — $86,692 · Other+69 more — $1,448,494 · Other+69 moreRIDGE AREA ARC INC — $117,500 · Human ServicesRIDGE AREA ARC INCThe Arc of Oklahoma Inc — $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Arc of Oklahoma IncTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST COLORADO — $98,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST COLORADONYSARC INC NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER — $97,500 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC NEW YORK CITY CHAPTERNoble Inc — $96,500 · Human ServicesNoble IncThe Arc of Tennessee Inc — $70,250 · Human ServicesThe Arc of Tennessee IncSTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY — $70,000 · Human ServicesSTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAYTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA — $62,500 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIANA INC — $54,496 · Human ServicesTHE ARC DAVIDSON COUNTY & GREATER NASHVILLE — $44,000 · Human Services+27 more — $371,712 · Human Services+27 moreSERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC — $108,500 · EmploymentEducational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc — $37,500 · EmploymentLARC INC — $11,556 · EmploymentABC Hopes Inc — $45,000 · HealthFELLO INC — $20,000 · HealthNAMI National — $16,000 · HealthNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE — $16,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC — $15,000 · HealthAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $15,000 · HealthVOLUNTEER SERVICE BUREAU OF WESTCHESTER INC — $32,500 · PhilanthropyAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropySUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY — $15,000 · PhilanthropyATHLETES FOR HOPE — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $25,000 · EducationMOHAVE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$2,520,656Human Services$1,192,458Employment$157,556Health$127,000Philanthropy$77,500Youth Development$45,000Education$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ARC OF NEW MEXICO — $413,127 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE ARC NATURE COAST INC — $157,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRIDGE AREA ARC INC — $117,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetARC OF LANE COUNTY — $117,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arc of Harris County — $113,593 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Arc of Oklahoma Inc — $110,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetSERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC — $108,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST COLORADO — $98,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNYSARC INC NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER — $97,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNoble Inc — $96,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC — $89,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC MUSKEGON — $86,692 over 4y, 10% of budgetThe Arc of Union County Inc — $79,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Tennessee Inc — $70,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $70,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA — $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM INC — $62,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INC — $58,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIANA INC — $54,496 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $54,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM/INSIGHT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC MARYLAND INC — $48,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetThe Arc of Northern Virginia — $45,563 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetABC Hopes Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE ARC DAVIDSON COUNTY & GREATER NASHVILLE — $44,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF PENNSYLVANIA — $42,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley Inc — $38,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Arc of Illinois — $38,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARC - KING COUNTY — $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEducational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCO — $32,832 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF AURORA — $32,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICE BUREAU OF WESTCHESTER INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arc of Midland — $32,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNYSARC INC Nassau County Chapter — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARC MICHIGAN — $27,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC — $25,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNational Disability Rights Network Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARC FOUNDATION OF ROCKLAND INC — $23,500 over 2y, 3.6% 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.

With FoundationCA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: With Foundation · Arc Thrift Stores Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Hsc Foundation · Next for Autism Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Sourceamerica · Gannett Foundation Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc

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 The Arc of the United States 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 73%
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc100% of income from government
  • The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc88% of income from government
  • Star Inc - Lighting the Way88% of income from government
  • Ccarc Inc85% of income from government
  • Arc of Lane County79% of income from government
  • Center of Hope Foundation Inc74% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc73% of income from government
  • The Arc Oregon38% of income from government
  • The Arc of Benton County Inc26% of income from government
  • The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Prince George's County Inc2% of income from government
  • Larc Inc0% of income from government
  • Scarc Inc0% of income from government
  • The Arc Nature Coast Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 129 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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