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Cannupa Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
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 2024.

Education$897kEnvironment$887kFood & Nutrition$143kArts & Culture$133kReligion$126kHealth$87kHuman Services$85kCommunity Improvement$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$100,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC$25,000
BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC$25,000
SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$25,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$20,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$15,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$5,000
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$4,428
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$2,110
SET SAIL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$261
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$125
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION INC$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1k → 14%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $7k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $5k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $5k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $20k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $250 → 9%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

WI
NY
OH
PA
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RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Cannupa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cannupa Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
42

Total granted

$1.8M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

91%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +15%
  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $392k · revenue ×24
  • ER
    Eat Real Certified Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +557%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • SC
    SASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -58%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Global Jewish Assistance & Relief Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
44/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $620,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCarnegie Mellon University: $615,100 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityNATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER: $200,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY - CONNECTICUT CHAPTERSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF: $126,500 · OtherSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF+39 more: $160,897 · Other+39 moreADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $391,694 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY …PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $122,522 · EducationPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCI…+8 more: $8,750 · EducationEat Real Certified Inc: $132,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,250 · Public BenefitSIMPLY SMILES INC: $70,586 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $16,450 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $77,500 · EnvironmentSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $7,500 · Environment+5 more: $4,485 · EnvironmentBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $79,258 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+8 more: $6,250 · HealthRAZOM INC: $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK: $1,000 · International
Other$1,722,497Education$522,966Public Benefit$133,750Human Services$116,036Environment$99,485Health$95,508International$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $620,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $615,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $391,694 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetEat Real Certified Inc: $132,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $122,522 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $79,258 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSIMPLY SMILES INC: $70,586 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNQUOWA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $16,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetRAZOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $8,513 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $7,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $7,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSet Sail Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTHPORT PARK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetEMERGE INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOOP NOLA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Paradise Sailing Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST FOOD: $1,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINLAND LAKE YACHTING ASSOCIATIONIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVES CAMP AT HORIZON FARMS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Emily Hall Tremai…Nessel Family Foundat…Kreitler Foundation I…Peoples United Commun…Newman's Own Foundati…David and Eunice Bige…The Inglesea Charitab…Smith Richardson Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Southport Area FundQuidditch Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Nessel Family Foundation Inc · Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundinc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Southport Area Fund · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee

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 Cannupa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cannupa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Emerge Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
6report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cannupa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cannupa Foundation 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 80 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home