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The Green Canoe 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$26kEnvironment$21kArts & Culture$11kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$10kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$7kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $85
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$339k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE WISDOM FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MOUNTAINEERS$85
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%New Vision Renewabl Energy: $5k → 20%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

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NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
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VA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Green Canoe Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Green Canoe Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 3 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$21k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

33%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesScience & TechFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ST
    SANTA TRINIDAD DE KAYA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $19k
  • M
    MAPS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k
  • TM
    THE MOUNTAINEERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $303 · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMMUNITY CARE FOOD PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • RV
    Rift Valley Childrens Village
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
3
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
4
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
7
Reforest the Tropics Incorporated

Development of programs to offset personal and corporate carbon emissions through reforestation in the tropics.

Environment
8
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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9
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
12
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA TRINIDAD DE KAYA INC: $18,815 · OtherSANTA TRINIDAD DE KAYA INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRift Valley Childrens Village: $6,700 · OtherRift Valley Childrens VillageKEXP: $5,000 · OtherKEXPThe Way Back Sessions Inc: $5,000 · OtherThe Way Back Sessions IncHarborcreek Youth Services Inc: $5,000 · OtherHarborcreek Youth Services IncMahonia LLC: $4,144 · OtherMahonia LLC+14 more: $9,532 · Other+14 moreNATURE WISDOM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURE WISD…CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $1,000 · EnvironmentCRESTED BUT…+1 more: $303 · EnvironmentERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyERIE COMMU…COMMMUNITY CARE FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMMUNITY…NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25 · Human ServicesRHIZOME ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentRURAL COMPASSION: $5,000 · Religion
Other$62,191Environment$11,303Philanthropy$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Human Services$5,025Youth Development$5,000Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURE WISDOM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMMUNITY CARE FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetRHIZOME ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHarborcreek Youth Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL COMPASSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAINEERS: $303 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $25 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.

The Britton Family FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Britton Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of 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
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.

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 30 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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