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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.

$179k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$325kArts & Culture$161kCrime & Legal$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kYouth Development$20kCommunity Improvement$19kFood & Nutrition$17kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $126,096, the rows itemized in this filing. The $178,529 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,433 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
$9,388
Median grant
8
States reached
$646k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JARED AND THE MILL: $8k → 11%ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE DBA ALL HANDS VOLUNTEERS: $25k → 8%CITY OF MISSOULA: $12k → 9%Rose Tree Park - Pennsylvania Resources Council: $18k → 10%Conservation Corps North Bay: $11k → 9%WeGenerative: $7k → 12%ROCK N ROLL PLAYHOUSE LLC: $10k → 17%ZERO WASTE SERVICES: $10k → 20%CITY OF DESOTO: $12k → 14%GULLAH GEECHEE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%AMERICAN RIVERS: $10k → 14%Emmanuel Communities: $11k → 10%CITY OF EATON RAPIDS: $8k → 9%Coffey Health Foundation: $11k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $20k → 13%Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (Morningside Congregation): $12k → 14%CLAYTON COUNTY: $13k → 15%CITY OF WHEATRIDGE: $12k → 7%Diversion Designers LLC: $9k → 7%RIVER RESTORATION ADVENTURES FOR TOMORROW: $8k → 10%SUNSQUABI: $12k → 10%Sunday Farmers Market: $8k → 11%Louisville Street Faire: $9k → 12%CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $10k → 12%Fruition: $8k → 8%URBAN SINGLETRACK PROJECTTHE NEW HORIZON FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%Recycle Away: $16k → 11%TROMBONE SHORTY FOUNDATION - THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $10k → 23%POCOMOKE RIVER ST PARK: $8k → 6%Mt Pleasant AME Church: $10k → 11%THE WOOKS: $10k → 15%ARIZONA EXPO & STATE FAIR: $10k → 11%STEEP CANYON RANGERS: $12k → 13%Georgia Interfaith Power and Light: $12k → 14%Clayton County Board of Commissioners: $8k → 15%RIVER RESTORATION ADVENTURES FOR TOMORROW: $8k → 10%Sunsquabi: $10k → 10%BOULDER COUNTY FARMERS MARKET: $9k → 12%TROUT STEAK REVIVAL: $9k → 12%GROUNDS KREWE NOLA INC: $13k → 23%THE WOOKS: $10k → 15%STEEP CANYON RANGERS: $10k → 13%SUNSQUABI: $10k → 10%COLORADO WATER TRUST: $10k → 12%PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $15k → 13%SOUTH PEARL STREET ASSOCIATES: $9k → 12%BREVARD BALLET: $7k → 13%ONE FLEW WEST: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 5 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
35

Total granted

$117k
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+144%

Still filing today

20%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • S
    SUNSQUABI
    4× · 2017–2022 · $37k
  • GI
    Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue +84%
  • SC
    STEEP CANYON RANGERS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $22k

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +37%
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +129%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +323%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development
3
Public Land Solutions

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.

Environment
4
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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5
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
6
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Urban Land Conservancy

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.

Community Improvement
9
Boulder Watershed Collective

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…

Environment
10
Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

—
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
12
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNSQUABI: $37,000 · OtherSUNSQUABISTEEP CANYON RANGERS: $21,500 · OtherSTEEP CANYON RANGERSTHE WOOKS: $20,000 · OtherRecycle Away: $15,891 · OtherRiver Restoration Adventures for Tomorro: $15,500 · OtherONE FLEW WEST: $15,304 · Other+31 more: $274,192 · Other+31 moreGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $23,461 · EnvironmentGeorgia Interfai…PENNSYLVANIA RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $17,690 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA RES…THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE PISGAH CONSE…Grounds Krewe NOLA Inc: $12,659 · EnvironmentGrounds Krewe NO…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS …COLORADO WATER TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER T…CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $40,000 · Crime & LegalEmmanuel Communities Inc: $10,716 · Community ImprovementDowntown Business Association of Louisville Inc: $9,387 · Community ImprovementOLD SOUTH PEARL STREET MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $9,195 · Community ImprovementALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $6,882 · Arts & CultureMONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $5,586 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$399,387Environment$88,810Crime & Legal$40,000Community Improvement$29,298Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Arts & Culture$22,468Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $23,461 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $17,690 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGrounds Krewe NOLA Inc: $12,659 over 1y, 14% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC: $11,095 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmmanuel Communities Inc: $10,716 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOFFEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,594 over 1y, 12% of budgetPIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $10,481 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoulder County Farmers Market: $9,428 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDowntown Business Association of Louisville Inc: $9,387 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCLAYTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $8,022 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetOLD CHENEY ROAD FARMERS MARKET INC: $7,973 over 1y, 13% of budgetPATHLIGHT INC: $7,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $6,882 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONMOUTH MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $5,586 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rose Community Founda…National Fish and Wil…National Recreation a…Feed the Children IncColorado Gives Founda…Project Lead the Way …The Community Foundat…Good Sports IncShare Our StrengthRockefeller Philanthr…NRA Foundation IncFor Inspiration and R…
Rose Community FoundationCO13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Can'd Aid funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Can'd Aid. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Can'd Aid?

    Find your warmest path to Can'd Aid through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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