· Private foundation
The Arnold 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA OF GREATER HARRISBURG | $50,000 |
| WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC | $25,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $20,000 |
| SMYAL | $10,000 |
| OPERATION WILDCAT | $10,000 |
| THE JANUS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $849k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- YGYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +36%
- WAWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $259k · revenue +220%
- VYVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +92%
Funded once
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.
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.
Provide social services to LGBT teens in the NYC area. Life skills training, meals, and social work services were offered to an average of 60 young adults a week.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Stonewall Youth empowers LGBTQ2S+ youth to speak for themselves educate their communities support each other and work for social justice
To build access, equity, and power with lgbtqia2+ young people.
Our mission is to provide a safe shelter and resources for LGBTQIA youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. We also provide resources and support to all members of the LGBTQIA population.
Mountain plains youth works provides a comprehensive range of support services for youth and their families to meet goals for strong, healthy relationships.
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
The organization provides child care, housing, job training, health and wellness, and leadership development programs, as well as advocacy on racial justice and women's issues.
The organization is a loving, nurturing and supportive group home dedicated to caring for and empowering youth, lgbtq youth in particular, ranging from 12 to 17 years old who are in need of such services.
The mission of Youth Seenis to foster and empower the social and emotional well-being of LGBTQI youth and their families.
How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Arnold Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arnold Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arnold Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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