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· Public charity
ICAN FOUNDATION
The ICAN FOUNDATION is the us charitable arm of ineos, a large, integrated, international chemical company.
$51k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants
1
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Education$143kPhilanthropy$54kHuman Services$33kOther$23k
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
2018
educational assistan
2019
educational assistan
2020
educational assistan
2021
educational assistan
2022
educational assistan
2023
isddistrict'sstudentsenrichindependent district
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$544k
Total assets
Largest grants
- DEER PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,700
- TEXAS CITY ISD FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE$5,400
- PEARLAND ISD$5,400
- HOUSTON ISD$5,300
- BRAZOSPORT ISD$5,100
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$189k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
4
Total granted
$189k
$54k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+24%
+19%
Still filing today
88%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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
- AIALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +116%
- LILAPORTE ISD3× · 2018–2021 · $22k · revenue +24%
- DIDANBURY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $16k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS-GREATER HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +9%
- HMHOUSTON MARATHON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -25%
- SFSANTA FE TEXAS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +19%
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.
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Houston Independent School District
The HISD Foundation supports Houston Independent School District's schools and programs.
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2
Cuero Isd Education Foundation
Raise funds to fund educational grants to Cuero ISD educators and scholarships to Cuero ISD graduates.
Education
3
Education Foundation of Canyon Isd
To generate and distribute resources to provide enhancements for excellence in education to Canyon ISD, its students and staff.
Education
4
Crandall Isd Education Foundation
Foundation will provide resources to enrich teaching, inspire learning and enhance opportunities for all students enrolled in the crandall independent school district.
Unclassified
5
Marble Falls Isd Education Foundation
To provide resources for excellence, promote innovation in teaching, inspire learning and partner with the community to enrich the quality of education for every student.
Education
6
Frisco Education Foundation
To provide scholarships to graduating high school students in the Frisco Independent School District. The Foundation also supports educational programs and educators in the District through Grants for Great Ideas.
Philanthropy
7
College Station Isd Education Foundation
Support educational programs in the college station isd.
Education
8
McGregor Isd Education Foundation
Provide Resources To Enrich McGregor ISD
Education
9
Greenwood Isd Education Foundation
Generate and distribute resources to GISD students and employees to enrich, maintain, and expand opportunities for pursuing excellence in education.
Education
10
Brazosport Independent School District Education Foundation
To support the educational programs of Brazosport ISD for both students and staff. The foundation provides funds that are not available through the normal operating budget of the school district.
Human Services
11
Denison Isd Education Foundation
The foundation (1) awards grants for administrators compensation (2) administers student scholarships (3) awards innovative teaching grants to the professional staff of the disd (4) honors students at award banquets.
Education
12
New Caney Isd Education Foundation
Enhance the New Caney ISD student experience through educational grants, which may include scholarships to New Caney ISD employees for additional education at accredited institutions.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deer Park Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$143,419Philanthropy$53,900Human Services$33,000Other$22,900
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 ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON ISD ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CREEK ISD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RED CROSS-GREATER HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE ISD ↗
- Who funds DANBURY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEER PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CITY ISD FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MARATHON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE TEXAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSWOOD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
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.
Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Pnm Resources Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 ICAN FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: DANBURY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465548902 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 DANBURY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 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 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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 Ican Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ican Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines