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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI$50,000
ASPCA$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$50,000
FLORIDA HIMANE SOCIETY$25,000
TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE$25,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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

NY
OR
NJ
CA
UT
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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 +62%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • ND
    NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -11%
  • AV
    AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -3%
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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