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The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$496k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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 arriving21$496k14%
FY202421$484k10%
FY202319$298k11%
FY202220$277k20%
FY202117$196k29%
FY202018$226kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$531kReligion$426kHousing & Shelter$240kPhilanthropy$225kHuman Services$145kEducation$124kCommunity Improvement$80kEnvironment$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Andee's Army$250,00056%
Christian City Inc$205,00051%
Shepherd Center Inc$187,00050%
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc$75,00061%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$60,00060%
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc$55,00060%
The Atl Trust$50,00019%
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc$40,00051%
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc$30,00060%
F O C U S Inc$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Andee's Army$250,00056%
Christian City Inc$205,00051%
Shepherd Center Inc$187,00050%
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc$75,00061%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$60,00060%
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc$55,00060%
The Atl Trust$50,00019%
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc$40,00051%
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc$30,00060%
F O C U S Inc$25,0001n/a
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America$25,0001n/a
Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc$22,00060%
Order of St Andrew the Apostle Inc$20,0006n/a
United Methodist Children's Home of the North Ga Conference Inc$20,00020%
Chris 180 Inc$17,50020%
Phi Delta Theta Foundation$11,00060%
Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc$10,0001n/a
Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc$10,00010%
Community Assistance Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Loma Linda University Health$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($858k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAndee's Army: $250,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetChristian City Inc: $205,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetShepherd Center Inc: $187,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDunwoody Nature Center Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJohnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Atl Trust: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetGeorgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInt'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Methodist Children's Home of the North Ga Conference Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChris 180 Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation of Wesley Woods Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLoma Linda University Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc give?
The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $496,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Religion (22%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Andee's Army ($250k), Christian City Inc ($205k), Shepherd Center Inc ($187k).
Does The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, J Bulow Campbell Foundation.
Where is The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc based?
The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 34 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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