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The Cannon Fund

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.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$190kEducation$183kArts & Culture$182kFood & Nutrition$45kYouth Development$16kEnvironment$12kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE$25,000
LAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER$15,000
FRIENDS OF HACKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY$5,000
YMCA CAMP PENDALOUAN$5,000
MICHIGAN TECH FUND$5,000
LILI'UOKALANI GARDENS OF THE ISLAND$5,000
MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL$1,000
WINGS OF MERCY$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $1k → 8%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.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$621k · 14 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$621k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +16%
  • WM
    WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +87%
  • WO
    WINGS OF MERCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • MT
    Michigan Tech University
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • CA
    COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%

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
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.

2
Michigan Radiological Society

To bring together, into one organization, the radiologists of the state of michigan, and provide scientific and medical education to its members.

Health
3
Mid Michigan College Foundation

The mid michigan college foundation is a non-profit michigan corportion organized to receive and administer funds for charitable purposes in support of mid michigan college. the corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of…

4
Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc

To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.

Environment
5
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
6
Michigan United Conservation Clubs

Uniting citizens to conserve, protect and enhance michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage

Environment
7
Michigan Heroes Museum

To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.

Arts & Culture
8
Michigan Maritime Museum Inc

The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

10
Michigan Council of the Society for Human Resource Management

To provide opportunities for local & regional shrm chapters to network, share best practices, & provide development opportunities to their attendees acting as a conduit to the society for human resource management (national shrm) which…

Community Improvement
11
Michigan Snowmobile Education and Advancement Fund

To develop a common appreciation and knowledge of snowmobiling in michigan.

Unclassified
12
Muskegon Heritage Association

Maintain historical museum

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskegon Young Mens Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hackley Public Library. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Friends of Hackley Public Library — $86,000 · OtherFriends of Hackley Public LibraryMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 · OtherMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ARTLILI'UOKALANI GARDENS OF THE ISLAND — $45,000 · OtherLILI'UOKALANI GARDENS OF THE ISLANDMichigan Tech University — $40,000 · OtherMichigan Tech UniversityMUSKEGON LAKESHORE MUSEUM — $39,500 · OtherMUSKEGON LAKESHORE MUSEUMLAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER — $37,500 · OtherLAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $16,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MUSKEGON — $16,000 · Other+3 more — $16,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $190,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHOREMONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DBA MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL — $12,000 · PhilanthropyMONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DB…Michigan Tech Fund — $49,000 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWINGS OF MERCY INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesSan Miguel Search and Rescue — $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSKEGON CLIPPERS — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$371,000Philanthropy$202,000Education$49,000Arts & Culture$30,000Human Services$9,000Public Safety & Disaster$8,000Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $190,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of Hackley Public Library — $86,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetMichigan Tech Fund — $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY — $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DBA MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL — $12,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWINGS OF MERCY INC — $9,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN — $5,000 over 1y, 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 UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE
  • Who funds Friends of Hackley Public Library
  • Who funds Michigan Tech Fund
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY
  • Who funds MONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DBA MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL
  • Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC
  • Who funds San Miguel Search and Rescue
  • Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN
  • Who funds MUSKEGON CLIPPERS

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.

Community Foundation for Muskegon CountyMI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cannon Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Cannon Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Cannon Fund 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 19 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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