Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Arca Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations The Arca Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $3.1M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $3.1M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $3.2M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $2.5M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blueprint North Carolina | $705,000 | 4 | 5% |
| State Voices | $660,000 | 2 | 1% |
| United for Respect Education Fund | $555,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Win Without War Education Fund | $550,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Color of Changeorg Education Fund | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
| We the People MI | $525,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute | $500,000 | 5 | 3% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $499,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Accountability Initiative Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Florida Rising Together Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Arca Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Windward Fund · Impactassetsinc · Hopewell Fund · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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About The Arca Foundation
- How much does The Arca Foundation give?
- The Arca Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $3,760,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Arca Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (29%), Civil Rights (22%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are The Arca Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Blueprint North Carolina ($705k), State Voices ($660k), United for Respect Education Fund ($555k).
- Does The Arca Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Arca Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Arca Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is The Arca Foundation based?
- The Arca Foundation is based in DC.
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