How much did THE ARK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE ARK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

conservation

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

womenhumaneshelter

2023

sheltergroup

2024

sheltergroup

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $92k
$10k–50k1 grant · $24k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$24,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$9,500
WILD EARTH GUARDIANS$7,500
ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE$7,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$5,000
REUNITY RESOURCES$5,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$4,500
BEST CHANCE$3,665
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$3,665
ONE TREE PLANTED OREGON$3,665
PETE'S PLACE - INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC$3,665
ESPERANZA SHELTER$3,665
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS$3,665
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$3,500
GLOBAL PURPOSE GROUP$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$828k · 52 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$828k

$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+41%

Still filing today

58%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthOther

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

CC
CREATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
7× · 2017–2023 · $176k · revenue +181% · 35% of their budget
AH
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
3× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +86%
RR
REUNITY RESOURCES
7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +695%

Funded once

CF
CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM US
one grant, 2021 · $13k
BS
BOSQUE SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -2%
IR
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +26%

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.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane

To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.

Animals

Animal Protection New Mexico Inc

The organization operates exclusively for the benefit and support of animal protection new mexico, inc. which seeks to educate the public about and advocates campaigns that prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals

Water Protector Legal Collective

The water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.

Crime & Legal

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Inc

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing displaced, unwanted, and non-releasable captive-bred wolves, wolfdogs, and other wild canid species.

Animals

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

Environmental organization whose focus is on wilderness protection and wilderness outreach programs.

Environment

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Unm Rainforest Innovations

Supporting the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution and licensing of technologies developed at the university of new mexico.

Education

Humane Society of Taos Inc

Stray Hearts is a no-kill animal shelter and adoption facility providing humane care and shelter for more than 1,500 surrendered, abandoned and abused companion animals per year.

Animals

The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo

|to conserve and care for wildlands, farms, and ranches, and connect people to the land.

Environment

Bold Futures Nm

Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…

Human Services

New Mexico Wildlife Center Inc

New mexico wildlife center's mission is to protect new mexico's wildlife through rehabilitation, conservation, education, and public engagement.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians and the most unlike its peers is Kindred Spirit. 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.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/46

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,519

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

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/46

Grantees still filing

39/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$615,301Environment$65,515Human Services$57,021Animals$52,125Education$40,952International$32,550Crime & Legal$19,000

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

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM46.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Anchorum St Vincent · New Mexico Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory · Thornburg Foundation

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 organisation THE ARK 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CREATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814414345 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CREATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Ark Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ark Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ARK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ark Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ARK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ark Foundation?

More from the funding graph