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Ican Foundation

The ICAN FOUNDATION is the us charitable arm of ineos, a large, integrated, international chemical company. Ineos believes it has a responsibility to help develop our country's best resourse: its next generation. The ICAN FOUNDATION is a texas 501(c) (3) non-profit and volunteer organization that supports outrerach efforts focusing on…

$51k
Granted FY2023
5
Itemized grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$27k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,400
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,700
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$609k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Ican Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY20235$27k40%
FY20225$37k40%
FY20218$67k63%
FY20202$26k0%
FY20193$26k0%
FY20183$23k67%
FY20173$48kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$210kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Ican Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alvin Isd Education Foundation$43,90053%
Dickinson ISD Education Foundation Inc$36,31943%
Clear Creek Education Foundation$34,60034%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$33,00010%
La Porte Education Foundation$22,15033%
Danbury Isd Education Foundation$15,70026%
Deer Park Education Foundation$12,60023%
Brazosport Independent School District$12,2002n/a
Texas City Independent School District Foundation for the Future$11,20021%
Houston Marathon Foundation$10,00013%
Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation Inc$5,50011%
Pearland Independent School District$5,4001n/a
Friendswood Isd Education Foundation Inc$5,35011%
Houston Independent Sch Dist$5,3001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ican Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlvin Isd Education Foundation: $43,900 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetDickinson ISD Education Foundation Inc: $36,319 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetClear Creek Education Foundation: $34,600 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Porte Education Foundation: $22,150 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDanbury Isd Education Foundation: $15,700 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDeer Park Education Foundation: $12,600 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTexas City Independent School District Foundation for the Future: $11,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHouston Marathon Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSanta Fe Texas Education Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFriendswood Isd Education Foundation Inc: $5,350 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Houston Food BankTX15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Houston Food Bank · Shell USA Company Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Ican Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ican Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ican Foundation

How much does Ican Foundation give?
Ican Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $26,900, out of $51,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ican Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (83%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Ican Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Alvin Isd Education Foundation ($44k), Dickinson ISD Education Foundation Inc ($36k), Clear Creek Education Foundation ($35k).
Does Ican Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ican Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Houston Food Bank, Shell USA Company Foundation, Pnm Tnmp Foundation.
Where is Ican Foundation based?
Ican Foundation is based in TX.

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 14 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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