Texas · Nonprofit
Friends of the ARK Inc
Friends of the ARK Inc (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,413 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Friends of the ARK Inc does
Mission
To provide funding for the Amos Rehabilitation Keep ARK that rehabilitates marine turtles and marine birds from the coastal zone of Mustang Island and St. Joseph Island.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Rescue and rehabilitate injured and ill animals and return them to the wild; educate the public through outreach programs; conduct and assist with research in conjunction with federal agencies to aid the sea turtles marine mammals and birds; and raise public awareness through local projects and weekly newspaper articles to make the beaches and water safe and clean for the animals that rely on it for their existence.
$104,088 spentof which $94,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,088.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $19k (+205%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Friends of the ARK Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $36k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the ARK Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Friends of the ARK Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Friends of the ARK Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 41% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of Friends of the ARK Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of Friends of the ARK Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Friends of the ARK Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of the ARK Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the ARK Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of the ARK Inc?
- Friends of the ARK Inc (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,413 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the ARK Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $278,413 in grants to Friends of the ARK Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the ARK Inc?
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the ARK Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing