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The Mannix Canby 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.

$480k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$444k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Mannix Canby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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 arriving24$480k38%
FY202418$270k22%
FY202316$327k31%
FY202214$205k21%
FY202114$205k14%
FY202015$210k27%
FY201915$150k27%
FY201814$148k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$728kYouth Development$461kEnvironment$170kHuman Services$160kRecreation & Sports$148kFood & Nutrition$110kArts & Culture$95kReligion$75kOther$0

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
The Seattle Aquarium Society$130,00080%
Northwest Education Access$115,00061%
Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty$110,00092%
Kandelia$105,00052%
Team Read$100,50072%
Methow Conservancy$100,00012%
Peace Community Center$97,50062%
Seattle Arts and Lectures$85,00041%
Safefutures Youth Center$80,00082%
Trinity Presbyterian Church$75,0005n/a
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Mannix Canby Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Seattle Aquarium Society$130,00080%
Northwest Education Access$115,00061%
Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty$110,00092%
Kandelia$105,00052%
Team Read$100,50072%
Methow Conservancy$100,00012%
Peace Community Center$97,50062%
Seattle Arts and Lectures$85,00041%
Safefutures Youth Center$80,00082%
Trinity Presbyterian Church$75,0005n/a
Community for Youth$75,00054%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship$65,00051%
Sawhorse Revolution$65,00062%
Invest in Youth$50,000513%
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative$50,000114%
African Community Housing & Development$50,00030%
Geeking Out Kids of Color$45,00031%
STEM Paths Innovation Network$35,00031%
College Access Now$25,00021%
Kids and Paper$25,00026%
Room One$25,00013%
Friends of the Children - Seattle$20,00021%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$20,00020%
Southwest Youth And Family Services$15,0001n/a
Washington Alliance for Better Schools$15,0001n/a
El Centro de la Raza$15,00020%
Olympia Education Foundation$15,00015%
The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas$10,00021%
Adult & Youth Learning Center$10,00013%
Para Los Ninos de Highline$10,00011%
Africatown Community Land Trust$10,00010%
Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington$10,00010%
Shunpike$10,00010%
Foundation for Academic Endeavors$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($454k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mannix Canby Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Seattle Aquarium Society: $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Education Access: $115,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetKitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty: $110,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKandelia: $105,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTeam Read: $100,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMethow Conservancy: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPeace Community Center: $97,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSeattle Arts and Lectures: $85,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSafefutures Youth Center: $80,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity for Youth: $75,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetR Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship: $65,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSawhorse Revolution: $65,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetInvest in Youth: $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetMethow Valley Trails Collaborative: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAfrican Community Housing & Development: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGeeking Out Kids of Color: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTEM Paths Innovation Network: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCollege Access Now: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKids and Paper: $25,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetRoom One: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of the Children - Seattle: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871): $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEl Centro de la Raza: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOlympia Education Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAdult & Youth Learning Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAfricatown Community Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShunpike: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 30.

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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.

School's Out Washingt…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationMedina FoundationDiscuren FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Liberty Mutual Founda…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationAlaska Airlines Found…
School's Out WashingtonWA45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Discuren Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · Alaska Airlines 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.

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About The Mannix Canby Foundation

How much does The Mannix Canby Foundation give?
The Mannix Canby Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $480,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Mannix Canby Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Youth Development (22%), Environment (8%).
Who are The Mannix Canby Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Seattle Aquarium Society ($130k), Northwest Education Access ($115k), Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty ($110k).
Does The Mannix Canby Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mannix Canby Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mannix Canby Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include School's Out Washington, The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is The Mannix Canby Foundation based?
The Mannix Canby Foundation is based in WA.

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 47 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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