Arizona · Private foundation
Canyon Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $347,885
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 151
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Canyon Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $1.6M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.5M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 151 | $1.6M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 125 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Canyon University | $1,556,518 | 6 | 0% |
| Guidestone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention | $1,184,025 | 6 | n/a |
| Northrise University Initiative | $402,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Orchard Africa | $384,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $380,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arizona Southern Baptist Convention Inc | $290,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Missions of Hope International | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| 25 Project Inc | $244,400 | 4 | 5% |
| Phoenix Gospel Mission | $177,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Goten Inc | $164,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 268 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Canyon Institute supplied at peak.
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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: Grand Canyon University CityServe · First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation C/O Arizona Community Fdn · Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Servant Foundation · Diane and Steve Clark Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance
How this is measured
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About Canyon Institute
- How much does Canyon Institute give?
- Canyon Institute reported 39 grants totaling $1,565,205 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 151 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Canyon Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (24%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Canyon Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grand Canyon University ($1.6M), Guidestone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention ($1.2M), Northrise University Initiative ($402k).
- Does Canyon Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Canyon Institute accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Canyon Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Canyon University CityServe, First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation C/O Arizona Community Fdn, Thunderbirds Charities.
- Where is Canyon Institute based?
- Canyon Institute is based in AZ.
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