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The Canale Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Canale Foundation Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to assist the community foundation of greater memphis, inc.

$9.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$527kHealth$397kEnvironment$292kReligion$277kArts & Culture$130kPhilanthropy$125kCommunity Improvement$81kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $577,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,582,885 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,005,385 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMMANUEL CENTER INC$250,000
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$126,500
MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$101,000
ST PETER LITERARY SOCIETY$50,000
ALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
MIFA$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MEMPHIS$5,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER$5,000
FAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY$5,000
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 (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%Catholic Charities of West Tennessee: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $5k → 17%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$711k · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$711k
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
0%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +59%
  • SF
    SchoolSeed Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • FS
    FAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AO
    AHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -81%
  • TH
    THE HUTCHISON SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $201k · revenue +48%
  • AO
    ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memphis Center City Development Corporation

Assist private development projects

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2
City Leadership

City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…

Public Benefit
3
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
4
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
5
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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6
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
7
Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement
8
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
9
One Family Memphis
Human Services
10
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.

Human Services
11
The Meadows Housing Corporation Inc

To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Urbanart Commission

The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
20/21
Grantees still filing
7/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CENTER: $277,000 · OtherEMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CENTERAHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherAHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INCST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLBRIDGES USA INC: $51,000 · OtherBRIDGES USA INCST PETER LITERARY SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherST PETER LITERARY SOCIETYCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $50,000 · OtherCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE+3 more: $40,000 · OtherTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $201,000 · EducationTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOLMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $101,000 · EducationMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCH…MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $100,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SC…MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $278,500 · EnvironmentMEMPHIS BOTANIC …WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySchoolSeed Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $100,000 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $36,500 · HealthFAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC: $10,000 · HealthDOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $64,000 · Housing & ShelterALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$818,000Education$402,000Environment$292,000Philanthropy$150,000Health$146,500Housing & Shelter$94,000Human Services$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $278,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $201,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $101,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $64,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC: $51,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $36,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…Thomas W Briggs Found…United Way of the Mid…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Thomas Garrott Founda…The Assisi Foundation…The Sims Family Chari…Baptist Memorial Heal…Belz FoundationJewish Foundation of …
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN42.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Belz Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis

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 The Canale Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Canale Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Canale Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Canale Foundation Inc 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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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