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The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation

Canary Foundation is a public charity exempt from U.S. federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code in the United States. Canary Foundation of Canada is a Public Foundation registered with the Canada Revenue Agency; Business Number 82906 8550 RROOO1.The Canary Foundation has assembled teams of cancer…

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$118,258
Largest grant, FY2025
$450,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$1.4M10%
FY20249$1.3M11%
FY20238$855k13%
FY20229$976k11%
FY20211$579k0%
FY20204$3.5M50%
FY20188$317k25%
FY20178$666kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.4MScience & Tech$2.8MEducation$249k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
MA
PA
CA
VA
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stanford Health Care$3,767,25970%
University of Washington Foundation$2,070,87860%
Van Andel Institute$1,074,12820%
Uc San Diego Foundation$650,00020%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$325,35260%
Michigan State University College of Law$322,87760%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$314,01560%
University of North Texas Foundation Inc$246,83260%
Schellhammer Urological Research Foundation$192,663519%
Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research$186,92450%
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All grantees of The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stanford Health Care$3,767,25970%
University of Washington Foundation$2,070,87860%
Van Andel Institute$1,074,12820%
Uc San Diego Foundation$650,00020%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$325,35260%
Michigan State University College of Law$322,87760%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$314,01560%
University of North Texas Foundation Inc$246,83260%
Schellhammer Urological Research Foundation$192,663519%
Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research$186,92450%
Swedish Health Services$174,4001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$45,3841n/a
Emory University$31,50010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr$29,7541n/a
University of California San Francisco$20,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStanford Health Care: $3,767,259 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $2,070,878 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVan Andel Institute: $1,074,128 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $650,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $325,352 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan State University College of Law: $322,877 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $314,015 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of North Texas Foundation Inc: $246,832 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSchellhammer Urological Research Foundation: $192,663 over 5y, 19% of budgetSeattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research: $186,924 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $31,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Canary Fund Dba Canary 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 The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation

How much does The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation give?
The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,760,069 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Science & Tech (33%), Education (3%).
Who are The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stanford Health Care ($3.8M), University of Washington Foundation ($2.1M), Van Andel Institute ($1.1M).
Does The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation based?
The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation is based in CA.

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 17 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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