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The Ark Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$370k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$629kHealth$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kPublic Benefit$25k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SEEING EYE$150,000
ASPCA$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI$50,000
FLORIDA HIMANE SOCIETY$25,000
TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE$25,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FND: $35k → 10%LA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMERICA'S VETDOGS: $25k → 7%ASPCA: $6k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $50k → 14%CAT DEPOT: $500 → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $6k → 11%TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 11%UFAR ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $50k → 15%SEE TURTLES: $15k → 12%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REHAB CTR: $20k → 8%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $3k → 8%HOPE FOR PAWS: $25k → 14%ASPCA: $4k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $50k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $4k → 11%TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 11%FLORIDA HIMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $25k → 15%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%ASPCA: $4k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $4k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $10k → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 13%ASPCA: $3k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $3k → 11%TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $8k → 13%ASPCA: $3k → 17%TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $6k → 13%ASPCA: $50k → 17%TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $6k → 13%TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 13%TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 11%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 13%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 13%FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 13%THE SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER: $2k → 13%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

NY
OR
NJ
CA
UT
MD
DC
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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$680k · 8 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$680k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +32%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • ND
    NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR PAWS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
6
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
7
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
8
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
9
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
10
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
11
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
12
Rescue Coop
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap and the most unlike its peers is Florida Humane Society Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $119,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSHumane World for Animals Inc — $102,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $87,500 · AnimalsFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $75,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAPTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $63,500 · AnimalsTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYHOPE FOR PAWS — $25,000 · Animals+4 more — $32,500 · Animals+4 moreTHE SEEING EYE INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE — $35,000 · OtherNORTH SHOR…NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REHAB CTR — $20,000 · OtherNOAH'S ARK…HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES — $17,000 · OtherHUMANE SOC…HUMANE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC — $10,000 · OtherHUMANE SOC…+1 more — $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Animals$545,500Human Services$175,000Other$83,000Health$35,000Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $119,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $102,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $87,500 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $63,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUFAR ANIMALS RESCUE CORP — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSEE TURTLES — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAT DEPOT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Ark Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • See Turtles — 11% of income from government
  • Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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: 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 Ark Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ark Foundation Inc 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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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