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Canvas Foundation

CANVAS FOUNDATION's mission is to share our hearts with our communities through a focus on schools, families, military, and first responders.

$212k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$182kRecreation & Sports$132kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kEducation$54kHuman Services$35kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $91,473, the rows itemized in this filing. The $211,973 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $120,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GO WEST CU FOUNDATION$50,000
SPECIAL OLYMICS COLORADO$25,000
COLORADO VETERAN'S PROJECT$10,000
CSU PUEBLO FOUNDATION$6,473
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FOUND123 1ST RESPONDER: $15k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$344k · 3 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -9% since the first grant, against -64% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$344k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
-64%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $172k · revenue -9%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $132k · revenue +33%
  • CV
    COLORADO VETERANS PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue -33%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +23%
  • F1
    FOUNDATION 1023
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -68%
  • CF
    COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -76%
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
3
University of Colorado Foundation

The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…

Education
4
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
5
Helping Heroes Colorado

To raise funds for first responders or their families who are injured or killed in the line of duty

Human Services
6
Police Foundation of Colorado Springs

To build effective partnerships that support the cs police dept and local community

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Chiefs of Police Fdn

The purpose of this foundation is to provide funding opportunities for professional development to the law enforcement professionals in the state of colorado.

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8
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
9
Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation Inc

To provide grants to family members due to illness, death or injury of fire fighers or their families.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Concerns of Police Survivors

The mission statement of c.o.p.s. reflects the strong belief that assistance, guidance, understanding, empathy, and hope for the future for the survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty begins with a caring, prepared…

—
11
Colorado Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation

Assistance donations to all needy vetera

Public Benefit
12
Coronado Police Officers Associatio

Support the police officers and families of the coronado police department

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Veterans Project; the most unlike its peers is Its a Calling Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $172,067 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundatio…ITS A CALLING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthITS A CALLING FOUNDATIONSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $132,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADOAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cr…FOUNDATION 1023: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION 1023Aurora Public Schools Foundation: $37,500 · OtherAurora Pub…COMPASS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCOMPASS CO…COLORADO VETERANS PROJECT: $40,000 · Public BenefitCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $6,473 · Education
Health$182,067Recreation & Sports$132,000Human Services$115,000Other$47,500Public Benefit$40,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$6,473

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $172,067 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $132,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO VETERANS PROJECT: $40,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation: $37,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION 1023: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetITS A CALLING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $6,473 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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Canvas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Canvas 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 10 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 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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