· Private foundation
Canyon Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $348k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $347,885 |
| GUIDESTONE FINANCIAL RESOURCES | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $118,000 |
| NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| ORCHARD AFRICA | $80,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $80,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $70,000 |
| 25 PROJECT INC | $69,400 |
| INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SBC | $62,600 |
| MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| FILTER OF HOPE INC | $60,000 |
| DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| GOTEN INC | $50,000 |
| HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Canyon Institute’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.
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.
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.
69 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- GCGrand Canyon University6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
- NUNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE5× · 2020–2025 · $402k · revenue +36%
- OAORCHARD AFRICA6× · 2020–2025 · $384k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- GSGCU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $104k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $85k
- BMBAPTIST MEDICAL & DENTAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +67%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
Phoenix seminary's mission is to train men and women for christ-centered ministry for the building of healthy churches in phoenix and the world.
Religious
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Mercy House Initiative. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 300 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD AFRICA ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 25 Project Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds GOTEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Chaplaincy for the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy House Initiative ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEDICAL & DENTAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: 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
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 Institute 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.
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