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.

The Ark Foundation

The Ark Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$256kEnvironment$245kInternational$139kHuman Services$63kEducation$58kAnimals$52kCrime & Legal$46kCivil Rights$30kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $101k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS	$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$10,400
TARIRO	$8,000
WILD EARTH GUARDIANS	$7,000
WEEHAWKEN CREATIVE ARTS	$6,400
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS	$5,280
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER	$5,280
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS	$5,280
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION	$5,280
ESPERANZA SHELTER	$5,280
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY	$5,000
SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY	$5,000
EARTH JUSTICE	$4,500
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM	$4,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$924k · 50 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$924k

$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+49%

Still filing today

82%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalEducationHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +79%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $42k · revenue +41%

Funded once

EV
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +36%
BS
Bosque School
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
IR
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

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

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

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

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Rights of Abused Children; 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.

04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/68

Grantees still filing

56/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$521,627Environment$127,045International$120,813Human Services$88,336Animals$71,025Education$57,825Health$22,393

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM51× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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