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The Canning 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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$12MPhilanthropy$11MHealth$3.8MArts & Culture$2.6MYouth Development$2.1MAnimals$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.4M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$1,739,569
NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE$1,506,440
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$475,644
NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE$399,356
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$250,000
HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$200,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$200,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$200,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$199,999
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$150,000
HOPE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH OF ST SABINA$150,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$112,500
CASEY'S SAFE HAVEN HOLISTIC HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY$100,172
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%ON ANGELS' WINGS: $5k → 15%BRAVEHEARTS: $20k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $20k → 6%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 14%BRAVEHEARTS: $15k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $10k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $10k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $10k → 6%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $100k → 14%OPERATION NORTH POLE: $1k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $25k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $25k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $25k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $25k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $25k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $25k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $25k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $10k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%LET IT BE US: $84k → 14%LET IT BE US: $45k → 14%LET IT BE US: $25k → 14%LET IT BE US: $11k → 14%LET IT BE US: $10k → 14%LET IT BE US: $9k → 14%LET IT BE US: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $200k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES INC: $84k → 14%UCAN: $160k → 14%UCAN: $85k → 14%UCAN: $85k → 14%THE HARBOUR: $5k → 14%UCAN: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Canning Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Canning Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 50% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 103 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
82

Total granted

$32M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +67%
  • WP
    WINGS PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +122%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $975k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TT
    TIMELINE THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • CS
    CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +108%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $141k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
9
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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10
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
11
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
12
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/151
the rest of the field
14%
9,138/67,265

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.

05the grantee network

137 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 137 of the 204 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/137
Grantees still filing
98/137
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $7,547,847 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONNORTHWESTERN MEDICINE — $1,905,796 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEDICINENorthwest Community Hospital Foundation — $695,164 · OtherNorthwestern University — $975,000 · OtherNorthwestern University+121 more — $7,094,261 · Other+121 moreBig Shoulders Fund — $7,467,644 · EducationBig Shoulders FundDUKE UNIVERSITY — $611,307 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $539,683 · EducationWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $501,840 · Education+15 more — $1,633,334 · Education+15 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $3,058,350 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVI…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $205,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…+5 more — $245,654 · Philanthropy+5 moreFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $720,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $323,457 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $150,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureURBAN GATEWAYS — $125,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $401,306 · Arts & CulturePAWS CHICAGO — $557,311 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · AnimalsChicago Zoological Society — $372,500 · AnimalsCASEYS SAFE HAVEN HOLISTIC RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $100,172 · AnimalsFAMOUS FIDO RESCUE AND ADOPTION ALL — $75,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $75,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 · Animals+6 more — $107,237 · AnimalsYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $384,408 · Human ServicesUCAN — $341,271 · Human ServicesLET IT BE US — $189,001 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND — $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $100,000 · Human ServicesBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $85,000 · Human ServicesCLEARBROOK — $75,000 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $60,000 · Human Services+6 more — $71,000 · Human ServicesWINGS PROGRAM INC — $1,320,100 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$18,218,068Education$10,753,808Philanthropy$3,509,004Arts & Culture$2,344,763Animals$1,747,220Human Services$1,430,680Housing & Shelter$1,355,100

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $7,467,644 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $3,058,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $1,320,100 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $975,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $720,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwest Community Hospital Foundation — $695,164 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $611,307 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $557,311 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $539,683 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $501,840 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC — $404,529 over 4y, 55% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $384,408 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetChicago Zoological Society — $372,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUCAN — $341,271 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAccelerate Institute — $325,001 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $323,457 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $291,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $250,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $205,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $202,178 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMPOWER ILLINOIS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLET IT BE US — $189,001 over 5y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN GATEWAYS — $125,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND — $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $100,654 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASEYS SAFE HAVEN HOLISTIC RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $100,172 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDES PLAINES FRIENDS OF THE PARK — $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $85,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS — $83,333 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERACTION INC — $83,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMOUS FIDO RESCUE AND ADOPTION ALL — $75,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWIREPOINTS CORP — $75,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Community Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds UCAN ↗
  • Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗

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.

Patrick G and Shirley…Robert R McCormick Fo…The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Dr Scholl FoundationThe Robert Thomas Bob…Lavin Family Foundati…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Motorola Solutions Fo…
Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan FoundationIL44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Motorola Solutions 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 The Canning 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Canning Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Canning 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 204 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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