Colorado · Public charity
Canvas Credit Union
CANVAS CREDIT UNION will strive to help individuals and families make better decisions and grow stronger financially. We will provide simple and relevant products and services at a consistently honest value. We will help members afford life.
- $851k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $831k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $13,584
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $277,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Canvas Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $831k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $846k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $935k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $567k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $482k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $257k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playfly Sports Properties LLC | $905,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Canvas Foundation | $584,441 | 6 | 82% |
| Outfront Media | $412,634 | 3 | n/a |
| Colorado State University- Pueblo Foundation | $326,350 | 3 | 2% |
| Colorado State University | $222,820 | 4 | n/a |
| Children's Miracle Network | $103,230 | 5 | 0% |
| Teall Properties Group | $102,500 | 2 | n/a |
| American Red Cross | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $95,599 | 5 | 0% |
| Cherry Arts | $93,753 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playfly Sports Properties LLC | $905,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Canvas Foundation | $584,441 | 6 | 82% |
| Outfront Media | $412,634 | 3 | n/a |
| Colorado State University- Pueblo Foundation | $326,350 | 3 | 2% |
| Colorado State University | $222,820 | 4 | n/a |
| Children's Miracle Network | $103,230 | 5 | 0% |
| Teall Properties Group | $102,500 | 2 | n/a |
| American Red Cross | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $95,599 | 5 | 0% |
| Cherry Arts | $93,753 | 3 | 2% |
| Mountain West Credit Union Association | $83,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Jt District 28-J | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Denver | $54,840 | 3 | 0% |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $53,584 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Credit Union Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Banzai Inc | $43,731 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Colorado | $43,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Compass Community Collaborative School | $40,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bizwest Media LLC | $37,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Scripps Media Inc | $31,750 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Fruita | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Greater Denver Inc | $27,950 | 4 | 1% |
| Outside Interactive Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ums LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Hispanic Chamber of Commerce | $22,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center | $21,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Neste Event Marketing LLC Dba Neste Live | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Synergy Imports LLC | $19,449 | 1 | n/a |
| Gowest Foundation | $18,113 | 1 | 1% |
| Revel Xp LLC | $17,858 | 2 | n/a |
| Stone Castle Corporation Dba Double Tree by Hilton Thornton | $13,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Colorado Community College System Foundation | $13,125 | 1 | 1% |
| Jaski Corporation | $11,908 | 1 | n/a |
| Thompson R2-J Education Foundation | $11,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Junior Athletics of the Midwest Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Cuila LLC Cu Direct Connect | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Automobile Dealers Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mi Casa Resource Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Citizens for Loan Tree's Future | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Tree Inc | $9,892 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado School of Mines Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce | $6,598 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Grand Junction - Bond | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| District 51 Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| South Metro Denver Chamber | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $5,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Lone Tree | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fisher Deberry Foundation | $5,400 | 1 | 4% |
| Blue Star Recyclers | $5,155 | 1 | 0% |
| Amp the Cause | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Canvas Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Canvas Credit Union
- How much does Canvas Credit Union give?
- Canvas Credit Union reported 22 itemized grants totaling $830,778, out of $850,778 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Canvas Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Canvas Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Playfly Sports Properties LLC ($905k), Canvas Foundation ($584k), Outfront Media ($413k).
- Does Canvas Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Canvas Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Canvas Credit Union based?
- Canvas Credit Union is based in CO.
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