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Canyon Creek 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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$304kEducation$196kHealth$85kInternational$12kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$8kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$562k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP CASEY$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER$20,000
HERO DOGS$10,000
FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY$2,000
HILL COUNTRY SPCA$1,000
HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAMP CASEY: $20k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $15k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $15k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $15k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%HERO DOGS: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%HERO DOGS: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%HERO DOGS: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $12k → 8%HERO DOGS INC: $5k → 8%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

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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 12% of Canyon Creek 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.

Canyon Creek Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.7% directed abroad (not shown)

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$558k · 9 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$558k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • CC
    CAMP CASEY CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +82%
  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $106k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    University of South Carolina Development Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +218%

Funded once

  • GS
    Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    PALMETTO CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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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Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
2
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

3
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

6
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
7
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
8
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
9
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

10
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
11
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
12
Health Services of North Texas Inc

Hsnt is committed to providing quality, affordable healthcare for the entire family from newborns to seniors, including prenatal care, women's health, behavioral health, a robust pediatric program, prescription assistance and infectious…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fredericksburg Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $106,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER — $75,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN CENTERPALMETTO MISSIONS — $60,000 · OtherPALMETTO MISSIONSGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $15,000 · OtherPALMETTO CHURCH OF CHRIST — $12,000 · Other+9 more — $35,500 · Other+9 moreCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $122,000 · Human ServicesCAMP CASEY CORPORATIONHero Dogs Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesHero Dogs IncAdopt-A-Native Elder — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation — $90,000 · EducationUniversity of So…HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 · AnimalsMAYO CLINIC — $300 · Health
Other$303,500Human Services$223,000Education$90,000Animals$1,000Health$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $122,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $106,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation — $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHero Dogs Inc — $90,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of South Carolina Development Foundation
  • Who funds Hero Dogs Inc
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco
  • Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder
  • Who funds FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Canyon Creek 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Canyon Creek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Canyon Creek 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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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