New Mexico · Private foundation
The Ark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $127k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Ark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $127k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $115k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $108k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $107k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $109k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $108k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $116k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create Center for the Arts | $176,450 | 7 | 35% |
| Wildearth Guardians | $69,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ah Haa School for the Arts | $59,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $48,212 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $42,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Reunity Resources | $35,750 | 8 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $30,050 | 9 | 0% |
| The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice | $26,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $25,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $21,875 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · New Mexico Community Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Battelle Memorial Institute · Feinberg Foundation · Brindle Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Ark Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Ark 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.
About The Ark Foundation
- How much does The Ark Foundation give?
- The Ark Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $126,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Environment (24%), International (14%).
- Who are The Ark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Create Center for the Arts ($176k), Wildearth Guardians ($69k), Ah Haa School for the Arts ($59k).
- Does The Ark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Frost Foundation, St Vincent Hospital.
- Where is The Ark Foundation based?
- The Ark Foundation is based in NM.
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