· Private foundation
Canyon Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FILTER OF HOPE INC | $60,000 |
| MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| GOTEN INC | $50,000 |
| HEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Canyon Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES OF ARIZONAone grant, 2022 · $80k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 300 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Canyon Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Canyon Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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