The Ark Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
870732908
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Belton, TX, USA
Phone
2547604509
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Assets
$397

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MATT KIRKLEY (PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD HAMMONDS (V PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MATT KIRKLEY (PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTAN HAMMONDS (TREASURER)
  • CHAD HAMMONDS (V PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Making distributions to charitable, religious and educational organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

What it reported doing in 2025

To make distributions to charitable, religious and educational organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.