Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center
The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,723 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($163,461). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $586k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $209k
- Net assets
- $979k
What The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center does
Mission
The organization offers a weekly food pantry, bill pay assistance, meals on wheels support, an angel tree program, and affordable clothing and household goods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food Pantry: The Organizations food pantry distributed over 60,000 pounds of food to community members who were elderly, disable, or in other financial need. Food and supplies for the food pandry are provided though both donations, and though the Organizations partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank.
$182,655 spent48% of program spendingA program to provide assistance with paying bills for those who are unable to pay.
$78,325 spent21% of program spendingMeals on Wheels provides meals and delivers them to the elderly and disabled.
$59,909 spent16% of program spendingThrift Store: The Organization accepts donated clothing and other household goods to sell at affordable prices to the community. The procceds from the thrift store (Noahs closet) are used to help fund the organizations various assistance programs.
$50,309 spent13% of program spendingAngel Tree: The organization supports the community Angel Tree program, providing gifts for children beginning at age 3 and extending all the way through 8th grade. In 2015 the organization helped to provide for 225 local children.
$6,203 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $377,401.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $925k to $1.0M (+11%).
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.
98% of The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dawn Green
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $534.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center’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
The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 64% · 2019 65% · 2020 46% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $35k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center: 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 The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center?
- The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,723 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($163,461). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $208,723 in grants to The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $163,461 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Ark Community Resource & Assistance Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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