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Happy Canyon Foundation Inc

To provide scholarships to the local youth, donations to local organizations and support the happy canyon night show to help preserve pendleton's history.

$58k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$36k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$36,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$36,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$5.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Happy Canyon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$36k0%
FY20221$15k0%
FY20216$329k67%
FY202012$177kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Community Improvement$272kArts & Culture$130kCrime & Legal$40kCivil Rights$25kReligion$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pendleton Chamber of Commerce$272,000139%
Happy Canyon Company Inc$82,184463%
City of Pendleton$60,0002n/a
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation$25,0001n/a
Umatilla County Human Services$15,0001n/a
Pendleton Black Sox$10,3751n/a
Shriners International$10,0001n/a
Pendleton Wrestling Club$8,5001n/a
Pendleton FFA$8,1001n/a
Pendleton School District$7,5001n/a
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All grantees of Happy Canyon Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pendleton Chamber of Commerce$272,000139%
Happy Canyon Company Inc$82,184463%
City of Pendleton$60,0002n/a
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation$25,0001n/a
Umatilla County Human Services$15,0001n/a
Pendleton Black Sox$10,3751n/a
Shriners International$10,0001n/a
Pendleton Wrestling Club$8,5001n/a
Pendleton FFA$8,1001n/a
Pendleton School District$7,5001n/a
Main Street Cowboys$7,000142%
First Assembly of God$6,5951n/a
Athena Christian Church$6,5001n/a
Junior Jam$6,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

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About Happy Canyon Foundation Inc

How much does Happy Canyon Foundation Inc give?
Happy Canyon Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $36,000, out of $57,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Happy Canyon Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Arts & Culture (23%), Crime & Legal (7%).
Who are Happy Canyon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Pendleton Chamber of Commerce ($272k), Happy Canyon Company Inc ($82k), City of Pendleton ($60k).
Does Happy Canyon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Happy Canyon Foundation Inc based?
Happy Canyon Foundation Inc is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $31k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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