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Isa S & Elizabeth Canavati Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of ISA S & ELIZABETH CANAVATI FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHASE DONOR ADVISED FUND | $211,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,080 |
| ST MARY MOTHER OF GOD CATHOLIC CHU | $2,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE | $2,000 |
| FORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATI | $1,200 |
| STILLWATER HOSPICE | $1,190 |
| BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM | $1,010 |
| INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEAC | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEAC | $1,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +5%
- HFHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +65%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- JAJPMORGAN ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2024 · $270k
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVESTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HLHOLY LAND CHRISTIAN ENCUMENICALone grant, 2021 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of nira is to help our members be productive in their business and achieve ongoing profitability through targeted education and ethical and professional standards. we are the visible voice for the real estate interests of the…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Educational Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM NFP ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · McMillen Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Ian & Miriam Rolland 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 organization Isa S & Elizabeth Canavati Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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