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The Arca Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$230k
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 FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$5.4MCivil Rights$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.8MInternational$1.6MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$643kEmployment$580kCommunity Improvement$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $3.6M
$75,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Just Future Fund$230,000
Tides Foundation$200,000
Blueprint NC$150,000
We the People MI$150,000
Tides Foundation$100,000
Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute$100,000
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund$100,000
Windward Fund$100,000
Tides Center$100,000
Win Without War Education Fund$100,000
New Florida Majority Fund$100,000
Leaders Igniting Transformation Education Fund$100,000
Mothering Justice$100,000
Public Accountability Initiative$100,000
ColorofChangeorg Education Fund$100,000
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $5k → 11%Freedom Inc: $75k → 10%State Power Fund: $75k → 12%Freedom Inc: $75k → 10%State Power Fund: $75k → 12%Freedom Inc: $75k → 10%Freedom Inc: $75k → 10%Voces de la Frontera: $75k → 17%Voces de la Frontera: $75k → 17%Voces de la Frontera: $75k → 17%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Voces de la Frontera: $75k → 17%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Voces De La Frontera: $50k → 17%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Tides Center: $75k → 10%Tides Center: $50k → 10%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of The Arca Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Arca Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 48 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
29

Total granted

$13M
$983k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-4%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CO
    COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +62%
  • AC
    Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +40%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $499k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FR
    Florida Rising Together (Formally New Florida Majority Education Fund)
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WISCONSIN VOICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -89%
  • ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -4%

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
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
5
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
6
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
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
9
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
10
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Washington Office On Latin America. 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 FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,484

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.

05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 97 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
39/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE VOICES — $660,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICESCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $550,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCAT…Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $500,000 · Civil RightsAction Center on Race & t…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $400,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER I…MOTHERING JUSTICE — $400,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICEMICHIGAN VOICES — $400,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN VOICESUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $375,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK I…ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $330,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANI…Democracy North Carolina — $150,000 · Civil Rights+6 more — $290,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreAmalgamated Charitable Fund — $695,000 · OtherAmalgamated Charitable Fun…Michigan United — $300,000 · OtherMichigan UnitedState Voices — $275,000 · OtherState VoicesJust Future Fund — $230,000 · OtherJust Future FundCitizen Action of WI Education Fund — $150,000 · OtherWINDWARD FUND — $500,000 · OtherWINDWARD FUNDNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $300,000 · OtherPOWERSWITCH ACTIONQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — $250,000 · OtherQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPO…+29 more — $1,289,000 · Other+29 moreWin Without War Education Fund — $550,000 · InternationalWin Without War…ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $375,000 · InternationalADVANCE DEMOCRA…CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $275,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTE…Just Vision Inc — $275,000 · InternationalJust Vision IncNational Iranian American Council — $275,000 · InternationalNational Irania…DEMOCRACY FOR THE ARAB WORLD NOW INC — $200,000 · InternationalDEMOCRACY FOR T…INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $152,500 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR P…CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH — $125,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing — $100,000 · International+4 more — $115,000 · InternationalBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $705,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORT…United for Respect Education Fund — $555,000 · EducationUnited for Res…We the People MI — $525,000 · EducationWe the People …WE ARE DOWN HOME — $300,000 · EducationWE ARE DOWN HO…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $150,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FU…LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $20,000 · EducationTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,265,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $230,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated …Solidaire Network Inc — $195,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Ne…Goodnation Foundation Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT — $75,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy Inc — $499,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philant…PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $450,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC ACCO…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $275,000 · Public BenefitCITIZEN ACT…CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $250,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSION…Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $175,000 · Public BenefitAmericans f…CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $150,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR …Progress Michigan Education Inc — $75,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitTIDES CENTER — $425,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER FUND — $150,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$4,055,000Other$4,289,000International$2,442,500Education$2,355,000Philanthropy$1,945,000Public Benefit$1,889,000Human Services$1,230,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,265,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $705,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $660,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund — $555,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $550,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWin Without War Education Fund — $550,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetWe the People MI — $525,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $500,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $499,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $450,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $425,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $400,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE — $400,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMICHIGAN VOICES — $400,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $375,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $350,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $330,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $300,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFREEDOM INC — $300,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $275,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $275,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $275,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetNational Iranian American Council — $275,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — $250,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $250,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $230,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY FOR THE ARAB WORLD NOW INC — $200,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $195,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $175,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $152,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina — $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH — $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group — $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WATERSHED CENTER INC — $85,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationFoundation to Promote…NEO Philanthropy IncRockefeller Brothers …Windward FundImpactassetsincHopewell FundWellspring Philanthro…Rockefeller Philanthr…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC68.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arca Foundation 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 The Arca Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Arca 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 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.

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