How much did CANYON INSTITUTE grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of CANYON INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

wesley lolalola freeburgjackson scholarshipchimiarra scholarshipfredbetty beckmem scholarship

2021

endowed freeburggcu endowedendowed rubyjackson endowmentendowed will-pfeifferwill-pfeiffer scholarshipendowed athletic

2022

childrenoutreachyouthevangelismsuppliesstudents

2023

campusstudents

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k19 grants · $47k
$10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $319k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$37M

Total assets

Largest grants

GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$319,327
GUIDESTONE FINANCIAL RESOURCES$200,000
CHRISTIAN CHALLENGE AZ$105,000
NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD OF THE SBC$85,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$80,000
ORCHARD AFRICA$77,000
25 PROJECT INC$75,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT$70,000
GOTEN INC$70,000
ARIZONA SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION$70,000
INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SBC$67,000
MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL$60,000
WORLD GOSPEL MISSION$50,000
WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC$50,000
HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC$50,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 16% 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.

CANYON INSTITUTElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 53 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212

Total granted

$4.7M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+117%

Still filing today

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GC
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY
4× · 2020–2023 · $867k · revenue +10%
ER
EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT
4× · 2020–2023 · $240k · revenue +17%
NU
NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE
3× · 2020–2022 · $202k · revenue +135%

Funded once

GS
GCU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $104k
GS
GATEWAY SEMINARY ARIZONA
one grant, 2020 · $85k
BM
BAPTIST MEDICAL & DENTAL MISSION INT'L
one grant, 2020 · $80k

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.

Phoenix Gospel Mission

Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma

Religion

Orphan Outreach

The establishment of Christian based programs to improve the lives of orphans and children at risk in Kenya, Guatemala, Honduras, Russia, India, Ukraine, Latvia, and Nepal.

International

World Renew

World Renew's mission is to engage God's people in redeeming resources and developing gifts in collaborative acts of mercy, justice, and compassion. This work, which is focused on relief and community development.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations

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…

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Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion

Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services

Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International

Youth for Christ International Ministries

To give every young person in every nation the opportunity to make a decision to follow Christ.

Religion

Sozo International Inc

Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.

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Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ-centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture

Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International

PrayerMentor

Empowering Christian leaders to pray for the harvest

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartfire Missions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Episcopal Relief and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

18/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,899,741Education$1,069,333Religion$539,000Human Services$352,500International$160,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Youth Development$5,000

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.

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.

Grand Canyon University CityServeAZ20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Canyon University CityServe · Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823592600 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Canyon Institute?

Find your warmest path to Canyon Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CANYON INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Canyon Institute?

More from the funding graph

CANYON INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Canyon Institute?

More from the funding graph