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Can'd Aid
Can'd Aid provides tools and access for under-resourced communities to lead healthy, active, and creative lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $126,096 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,529 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,433 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rose Tree Park - Pennsylvania Resources Council | $17,690 |
| Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (Morningside Congregation) | $11,959 |
| Conservation Corps North Bay | $11,095 |
| Coffey Health Foundation | $10,594 |
| Pikes Peak Library District | $10,481 |
| Sunsquabi | $10,000 |
| Diversion Designers LLC | $9,388 |
| Louisville Street Faire | $9,387 |
| Sunday Farmers Market | $7,973 |
| Fruition | $7,522 |
| WeGenerative | $7,459 |
| Sinks Canyon Natural Resource Council | $6,798 |
| Abby Bryant & the Echoes | $5,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSUNSQUABI4× · 2017–2022 · $37k
- GIGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue +84%
- SCSTEEP CANYON RANGERS2× · 2019–2020 · $22k
Funded once
- CACHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +37%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +129%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +189%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities and the most unlike its peers is Silver Stallion Bicycle and Coffee Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Grounds Krewe NOLA Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Emmanuel Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds COFFEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boulder County Farmers Market ↗
- Who funds Downtown Business Association of Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD SOUTH PEARL STREET MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD CHENEY ROAD FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Recreation and Park Association · Feed the Children Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Good Sports Inc · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
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 Can'd Aid 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.
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.
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