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Canterbury Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$716k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $381k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METHODIST HOSPITAL$225,000
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$56,377
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$50,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$41,000
SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER$25,000
THE WORK FAITH CONNECTION$25,000
SPRING SPIRIT INC$25,000
MHS BOOSTER CLUB$24,000
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER$22,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$20,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$15,000
LEMONADE DAY$10,000
MAIN STREET MINISTRIES HOUSTON$10,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONS$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $5k → 25%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%MEMORIAL VILLAGE POLICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES HOUSTON: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Canterbury Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Canterbury Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
2
Tex-E Inc
Education
3
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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4
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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5
Texas Marines Medal of Honor Fund

The texas marines medal of honor fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on the remembrance of the sixteen texas marines and one navy corpsman who received the medal of honor; the maintenance of the texas marine medal of honor…

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Jewish Security Initiative
Crime & Legal
7
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
10
Hope for Youth

Hope for Youth builds and maintains long-term Christian mentoring relationships with urban youth to challenge and enable them to reach their full potential spiritually, academically, and socially. We serve at-risk youth in grades 6th-12th.…

Youth Development
11
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jimmy Pappas Memorial Shoot. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesChild and Family ServicesEarly Childhood Education C…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Jewish Community FederationsAt-Risk Youth MentoringLand Conservation Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Public School District Foun…Education Equity LeadershipSchool Parent OrganizationsCancer Support OrganizationsFallen First Responder Supp…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,777

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
8/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE METHODIST HOSPITAL — $225,000 · OtherTHE METHODIST HOSPITALST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $56,377 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHMHS BOOSTER CLUB — $24,000 · OtherMHS BOOSTER CLUBCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 · Other+20 more — $88,995 · Other+20 moreTexas A&M Foundation — $41,000 · EducationTexas A&M Fo…Small Steps Nurturing Center — $25,000 · EducationSmall Steps …PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationPATRIOT LEGA…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT H…Main Street Ministries Houston — $10,000 · Human ServicesMain Stree…Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation — $5,000 · Human ServicesUvalde CIS…+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL…The Texas State Historical Association — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Texas…Brothers for Life — $2,000 · Arts & CultureYouth Development Center Inc — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSpringSpirit Inc — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $3,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION — $25,000 · Employment
Other$429,372Education$76,000Human Services$66,500Arts & Culture$57,000Youth Development$34,000Recreation & Sports$28,500Employment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Development Center Inc — $22,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Street Ministries Houston — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMY PAPPAS MEMORIAL SHOOT — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY PTA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Villages Police Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas-Houston Chapter — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Canterbury Family Foundation 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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