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The Ark Watch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Animals$5.2MPhilanthropy$58kEducation$271
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $518k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$56,600
Median grant
7
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION$1,007,080
FUND FOR ANIMALS INC$200,000
BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY$150,000
FUND FOR ANIMALS INC$111,500
TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE$56,600
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS$18,000
FARMHOUSE FRESH ANIMAL SANCTUARY$15,000
HUMANITY FOR HORSES$10,000
HASTY'S HAVEN$2,500
FUND FOR ANIMALS INC$228
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GILA HERD FOUNDATION: $67k → 19%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $15k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $16k → 11%HUMANITY FOR HORSES: $10k → 16%DREAM CATCHER WILD HORSE & BURRO SANCTUARY: $14k → 17%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $374k → 17%FARMHOUSE FRESH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $16k → 5%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS: $18k → 11%WALLY ADAMS FOUNDATION INC: $21k → 16%TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE: $70k → 16%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 13%ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 23%ROCKING R RANCH RESCUE: $12k → 23%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $150k → 15%GILA HERD FOUNDATION: $24k → 19%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $15k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $10k → 11%HUMANITY FOR HORSES: $10k → 16%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $357k → 17%FARMHOUSE FRESH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $15k → 5%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS: $16k → 11%TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE: $69k → 16%RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION: $517k → 13%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $100k → 15%GILA HERD FOUNDATION: $14k → 19%HUMANITY FOR HORSES: $10k → 16%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $285k → 17%TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE: $57k → 16%RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION: $251k → 13%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $100k → 15%HUMANITY FOR HORSES: $10k → 16%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $240k → 17%TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE: $55k → 16%RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION: $76k → 13%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $100k → 15%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $200k → 17%TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE: $34k → 16%RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION: $67k → 13%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $100k → 15%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $155k → 17%WALLY ADAMS FOUNDATION INC: $36k → 13%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $75k → 15%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $112k → 17%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $75k → 15%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $62k → 17%BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $70k → 15%FUND FOR ANIMALS INC: $41k → 17%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

MI
NY
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
MO
AZ
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 14 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$5.2M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+9%

Still filing today

93%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • RB
    RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×23 · 80% of their budget
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG
    8× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +31%
  • TP
    TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • EA
    ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • OS
    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • VV
    VALLEY VIEW RANCH EQUINE RESCUE
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -7%
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
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
2
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
3
Always Dreaming Horse Ranch and Res

Horse Shelter

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4
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
5
New Hope Farm Inc

Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.

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6
Swingin' D Horse Rescue
Animals
7
Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue
Animals
8
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
9
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
10
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
11
Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd
Animals
12
End of Road Ranch

Our goals are twofold a safety net for horses in need , finding a foster or adoptive home when possible,education of the public as too the care and needs of these magnificent animals. Have added small animals cats and dogs.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Bell Run Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wally Adams Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $1,917,399 · AnimalsRED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INCINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG: $770,105 · AnimalsINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANGTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC: $296,724 · AnimalsTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC+17 more: $267,872 · Animals+17 moreThe Fund for Animals Inc: $1,826,354 · OtherThe Fund for Animals IncGILA HERD FOUNDATION: $105,401 · OtherGILA HERD FOUNDATION+3 more: $30,271 · OtherWALLY ADAMS FOUNDATION: $57,619 · PhilanthropyPEACEFUL ACRES HORSES INC: $96 · Health
Animals$3,252,100Other$1,962,026Philanthropy$57,619Health$96

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $1,917,399 over 5y, 80% of budgetThe Fund for Animals Inc: $1,826,354 over 8y, 10% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG: $770,105 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC: $296,724 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetHumanity for Horses: $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWALLY ADAMS FOUNDATION: $57,619 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetVILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $56,091 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $34,340 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFARMHOUSE FRESH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $30,638 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetDreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc: $24,027 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROCKING R RANCH RESCUE: $13,120 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetT & D DONKEY RESCUE INC: $7,604 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHASTYS HAVEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE: $726 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRACE FUND INC: $425 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUINE WELLBEING RESCUE INC: $187 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Place: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST CHANCE CORRAL: $50 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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…The Susan and Ford Sc…Bradford Family Found…PC Fund for Animals C…Humane World for Anim…The American Society …Greater Good CharitiesPaypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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