Georgia · Nonprofit
THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER
THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,740 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($261,622). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $421k
- Net assets
- $911k
What The Ark United Ministry Outreach Center does
Mission
To be an efficient, effective way for the religious community to pool resources and help people find self-sufficiency with hope and self-respect in the face of economic hardship
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
he Ark United Ministry Outreach Center (the Ark) is an outreach center that provides emergency financial assistance to low-income individuals and families in Athens-Clarke County and surrounding counties. The Ark serves as the communitys emergency resource for families experiencing financial crises who have nowhere else to turn and are struggling to meet basic needs. Assistance provided by The Ark helps prevent homelessness and utility disconnections while promoting housing stability.In 2025, The Arks rent and utility assistance programs helped 502 children remain stably housed with utilities maintained. The organization prevented 275 evictions and 154 utility disconnections and made 1,040 Food Bank referrals to support families facing food insecurity.In addition, The Ark participated in financial education initiatives and provided 500 hours of financial education services to community members to improve understanding of key financial topics, including budgeting, saving, and credit repair.
$288,528 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $288,528.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $446k to $593k (+33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 51% · 2021 66% · 2022 6% · 2023 24% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $50k → $30k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH 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 UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 79% · 2019 89% · 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
77% of THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH 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 $97k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k 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.
Organizations like THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH 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 UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER?
- THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,740 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($261,622). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $420,740 in grants to THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER?
- Athens Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $261,622 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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