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Canterbury Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$50,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$41,000
THE WORK FAITH CONNECTION$25,000
SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER$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
PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC$10,000
LEMONADE DAY$10,000
MAIN STREET MINISTRIES HOUSTON$10,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
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 9% of Canterbury Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 92%.

Canterbury Family 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 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
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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12
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
6/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetPATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMain Street Ministries Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMY PAPPAS MEMORIAL SHOOT: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY PTA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetBrothers for Life: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Villages Police Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmigos de las Americas-Houston Chapter: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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