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The Mannix Canby Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METHOW VALLEY TRAILS COLLABORATIVE$50,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$25,000
SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES$25,000
KANDELIA$25,000
NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS$25,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$25,000
ROOM ONE$25,000
COMMUNITY FOR YOUTH$25,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT$20,000
GEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR$20,000
BRYANT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$20,000
STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK$15,000
COMMON POWER (ACTION ACADEMY)$15,000
GARDEN RAISED BOUNTY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ROOM ONE: $25k → 17%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%EL CENTRO DEL LA RAZA: $10k → 9%EL CENTRO DEL LA RAZA: $5k → 9%KANDELIA: $25k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%ADULT AND YOUTH LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 9%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 31 repeat orgs$325k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

65%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +180%
  • NE
    NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +32%
  • KG
    KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • MC
    METHOW CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -70%
  • OE
    OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-YOUTH TUTORING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Rainier Scholars

Cultivates the academic potential and leadership skills of underrepresented students. by creating access to opportunities and holistic support, we increase college graduation rates and empower new generations of leaders.

Education
3
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
4
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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5
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
6
Seattle Amistad School

At Seattle Amistad School, we foster community integrity through rigorous bilingual and bicultural education, developing our students' academic strengths and cultural sensibilities, while nurturing compassionate and engaged citizens.

Education
7
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
8
Seattle JazzED

Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.

Arts & Culture
9
Rainier Prep

Rainier prep provides public education to students in grades 5-8 in the highline area near seattle/tacoma. rainier prep seeks to prepare students for college, career readiness, and to become leaders in their communities.

Education
10
Police Activities League of Southwest Washington

PAL is dedicated to fostering positive relationships between law enforcement and youth through community-based educational programs and recreational opportunities. In 2024 alone, we served 15,929 youth, striving to create trust and…

Youth Development
11
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
12
Seattle Country Day School

Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safefutures Youth Center; the most unlike its peers is College Access Now. 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

33 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. 33 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $110,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICESTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOMMUNITY FOR YOUTH: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOR YOUTHSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES - WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS: $62,500 · OtherSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES - WRITERS IN THE SCHOOL…COLLEGE POSSIBLE: $60,000 · OtherCOLLEGE POSSIBLEBRYANT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $51,000 · OtherBRYANT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERSEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS - COLLEGE SUCCESS PROGRAM: $35,000 · OtherSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $85,000 · OtherSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURESSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER: $80,000 · OtherSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTERAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 · OtherAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT+15 more: $240,000 · Other+15 moreNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $115,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION AC…Team Read: $100,500 · EducationTeam ReadR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $65,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORIT…Sawhorse Revolution: $65,000 · EducationSawhorse RevolutionSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $35,000 · EducationSTEM PATHS INNOVATION …OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationMETHOW CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentMETHOW CONS…INVEST IN YOUTH: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentINVEST IN Y…GEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEEKING OUT…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF …KANDELIA: $105,000 · Human ServicesKANDELIARoom One: $25,000 · Human ServicesRoom OneTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG …Southwest Youth And Family Services: $15,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest …EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $15,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO …Adult & Youth Learning Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $110,000 · EnvironmentMethow Valley Trails Collaborative: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $130,000 · AnimalsPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $97,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$923,500Education$415,500Youth Development$215,000Human Services$190,000Environment$160,000Animals$130,000Recreation & Sports$97,500

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

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
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.

  • Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗
  • Who funds KANDELIA ↗
  • Who funds Team Read ↗
  • Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PEACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
  • Who funds SAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Sawhorse Revolution ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Methow Valley Trails Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds GEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR ↗
  • Who funds STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds College Access Now ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND PAPER ↗
  • Who funds Room One ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds Southwest Youth And Family Services ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas ↗
  • Who funds Adult & Youth Learning Center ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mannix Canby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mannix Canby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 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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