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The Canary Charitable 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.4MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$799kEducation$741kEnvironment$526kInternational$487kScience & Tech$400kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $780k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$500,000
DIA ART FOUNDATION$230,168
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$100,000
MASS EYE AND EAR$100,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$100,000
PECONC LAND TRUST$100,000
LIMITLESS HORIZONS$100,000
INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM$50,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIMITLESS HORIZONS: $100k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 17%THE ALDRICH MUSEUM: $15k → 9%EMORTY UNIVERSITY: $65k → 14%LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL: $100k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 17%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%MASS EYE AND EAR: $260k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 17%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%MASS EYE AND EAR: $100k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $230k → 17%MASS EYE AND EAR: $100k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $210k → 17%MASS EYE AND EAR: $100k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%MASS EYE AND EAR: $100k → 16%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25k → 17%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $500k → 17%VISIONSPRING: $35k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $20k → 17%EYELLIANCE: $30k → 17%EYELLIANCE: $30k → 17%EYELLIANCE: $20k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $105k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $100k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $100k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $100k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $100k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $50k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $50k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $50k → 17%INTREPID: $50k → 17%INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 18 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
30

Total granted

$9.3M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +41%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $700k · revenue +27%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • LH
    LIMITLESS HORIZONS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • EU
    EMORTY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • I
    INTREPID
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
9
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
10
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 52 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,140,168 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC+9 more: $216,500 · Arts & CultureMASS EYE AND EAR: $660,000 · OtherMASS EYE AND EARNYU LANGONE HEALTH: $502,500 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHPECONC LAND TRUST: $425,000 · OtherPECONC LAND TRUSTINTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $400,000 · OtherINTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE M…LIMITLESS HORIZONS: $100,000 · Other+15 more: $202,750 · Other+15 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $700,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…VISIONSPRING INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyVISIONSPR…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $33,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $305,000 · EducationLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $300,000 · EducationEmory University: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $125 · EducationBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $400,000 · International+2 more: $6,569 · InternationalEYELLIANCE INC: $80,000 · HealthCURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $3,250 · HealthMONTAUK FOOD PANTRY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$5,356,668Other$2,290,250Philanthropy$811,500Education$665,125International$406,569Health$93,250Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,140,168 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $700,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $305,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $300,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEYELLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE: $60,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetEmory University: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,569 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWISS INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK FOOD PANTRY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROUS DYSPLASIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA12.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Canary Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Canary Charitable 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.

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 52 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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