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Kenneth and Phyllis Canary 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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$204kEducation$53kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$6kInternational$5kHealth$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH BAPTIST MISSION$35,000
CENTERAL MISSIONARY CLEARING HOUSE$28,000
HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
DAVIS COLLEGE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,088
THE CHURCH AT NEWTOWN ROAD$6,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF GLOVERSVILLE$5,000
SACANDA BIBLE CONFERENCE$5,000
LEXINGTON FOUNDATION$5,000
SIM USA$5,000
THE CHURCH AT NEWTOWN ROAD$4,000
SUNY ONEONTA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BROADALBIN ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY$2,500
BROADALBIN KENNYETTO FIRE CO$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEXINGTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 9 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$220k
$10k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalEducationReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WO
    WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +19%
  • HU
    HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +12%
  • DC
    DAVIS COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • BP
    BROADALBIN PERTH CENTAL SCHOOL DIST
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • FM
    FULTON MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • SO
    SUNY OSWEGO
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SACANDAGA BIBLE CONFERENCE: $90,000 · OtherSACANDAGA BIBLE CONFERENCEFAITHS 100 INCORPORATED: $35,000 · OtherFAITHS 100 INCORPORATEDCENTERAL MISSIONARY CLEARING HOUSE: $28,000 · OtherCENTERAL MISSIONARY CLEARING HOUSETHE SALVATION ARMY OF GLOVERSVILLE: $23,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF GLOVERSVILLEBROADALBIN PERTH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA: $20,000 · OtherBROADALBIN PERTH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATHE CHURCH AT NEWTOWN ROAD: $15,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH AT NEWTOWN ROADDAVIS COLLEGE: $15,000 · OtherDAVIS COLLEGEVARIOUS: $9,000 · Other+11 more: $34,588 · Other+11 moreWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $21,000 · ReligionHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationLEXINGTON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $395 · International
Other$269,588Religion$21,000Education$21,000Human Services$5,000International$395

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBROADALBIN KENNEYETTO FIRE CO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $395 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADALBIN KENNEYETTO FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth and Phyllis Canary Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Phyllis Canary Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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