· Public charity
Canvas Credit Union
CANVAS CREDIT UNION will strive to help individuals and families make better decisions and grow stronger financially.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $830,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $850,778 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYFLY SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC | $277,750 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY PUEBLO FOUNDATION | $115,600 |
| CANVAS FOUNDATION | $105,202 |
| TEALL PROPERTIES GROUP LLC | $52,500 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $51,905 |
| CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL DBA CHERRYARTS | $32,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $31,187 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $16,500 |
| GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION INC | $13,584 |
| THOMPSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,250 |
| CITY OF FRUITA | $10,000 |
| POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| DU RETIREES ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CFCANVAS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $584k · revenue +38% · 82% of their budget
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $326k · revenue +8%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MWMOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $83k · revenue 0%
- JDJT DISTRICT 28-Jone grant, 2019 · $60k
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.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
To provide grants, fundraising, and encouraging volunteerism in support of local charities. the foundation will focus its support on education and human services.
The CDA Foundation advances access to oral healthcare through charitable giving, supports the future of the profession through dental school scholarships and promotes dental professional wellbeing.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
Provide support to boces and school districts in colorado to enhance collaboration, effectiveness, efficiency and to improve student achievement.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
To promote thrift and provide lower cost credit to the members of the credit union. to promote thrift among members by affording them the opportunity to accumulate payments on shares and make loans from these shares to its members.
The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is District 51 Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 56 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 CANVAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHERRY ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Daniels Fund · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Bellco Foundation
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 Canvas Credit Union 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.