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The Arp Family 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$1.9MAnimals$53kEducation$32kHuman Services$13kEnvironment$12kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$2kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,601,768
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC Davis Team Aggie$1,601,768
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 15%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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 22 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$2.0M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

45%
35%

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
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SF
    SIERRA FOOTHILLS LITTLE LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +26%
  • GC
    Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +583%
  • PN
    PLACER NATURE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE BLINDSUMMER YOUTH
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • SM
    STRAWBERRY MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -43%

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.

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Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
2
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
3
Northern California Animal Rescue Friends

We work in cooperation with humane organizations shelters and other groups interested in animal rescue. We rescue domestic animals and place them in nurturing foster homes. All animals are evaluated altered and vaccinated prior to…

Animals
4
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
5
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
6
Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation Inc
Animals
7
The Spay and Neuter Intercommunity Project Team Inc

To decrease the euthanasia rates in Central California by providing spay & neuter resources

Animals
8
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

9
Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc

Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that has rescued and found permanent, loving homes for Golden Retrievers and Golden Retriever mixes since its inception in 1994. Through the dedicated work of its foster…

Animals
10
Sierra County Humane Society-Desert Haven Animal Refuge

Abused animal care,public education, spay & neuter of animals to prevent unwanted births, providing a pet cemetary for animals.

Animals
11
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
12
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Foothills Little League and the most unlike its peers is The Falcon 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 43 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC Davis Team Aggie — $1,621,768 · OtherUC Davis Team AggieTeam Aggie Athletic Development — $105,000 · OtherTeam Aggie Athletic Development+30 more — $212,650 · Other+30 moreKINDRED SPIRITS FAWN RESCUE — $10,500 · AnimalsFieldHaven Feline Center — $10,100 · AnimalsANIMALSAVE — $7,250 · AnimalsSAMMIES FRIENDS — $7,250 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $1,250 · AnimalsSIERRA FOOTHILLS LITTLE LEAGUE — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsAUBURN SKI CLUB ASSOCIATES INC — $1,500 · Recreation & SportsPLACER NATURE CENTER — $12,000 · EnvironmentPlacer Community Foundation — $1,500 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $1,250 · Human ServicesPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $1,250 · Education
Other$1,939,418Animals$36,350Recreation & Sports$19,500Environment$12,000Philanthropy$1,500Human Services$1,250Education$1,250

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA FOOTHILLS LITTLE LEAGUE — $18,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc — $12,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPLACER NATURE CENTER — $12,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetMEADOW VISTA COMMUNITY CENTER — $12,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetKINDRED SPIRITS FAWN RESCUE — $10,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFieldHaven Feline Center — $10,100 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetANIMALSAVE — $7,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAMMIES FRIENDS — $7,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAWBERRY MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPlacer Community Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN SKI CLUB ASSOCIATES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARK PRESCHOOL — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDavis Media Access — $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC
  • Who funds SIERRA FOOTHILLS LITTLE LEAGUE
  • Who funds Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc
  • Who funds PLACER NATURE CENTER
  • Who funds MEADOW VISTA COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS FAWN RESCUE
  • Who funds FieldHaven Feline Center
  • Who funds ANIMALSAVE
  • Who funds SAMMIES FRIENDS
  • Who funds THE FALCON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STRAWBERRY MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS INC
  • Who funds Placer Community Foundation
  • Who funds AUBURN SKI CLUB ASSOCIATES INC
  • Who funds THE ARK PRESCHOOL
  • Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE
  • Who funds Davis Media Access

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.

Placer Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Placer Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Dieter Family Foundation · John Mohme Foundation · Armrod Charitable Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Arp Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your 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
    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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 43 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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