· Private foundation
Three Canopies Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DuPage PADS | $1,550 |
| Peoples Resource Center | $1,550 |
| Loaves Fishes Community Services | $1,250 |
| Bridge Communities | $1,050 |
| Lazarus House | $1,000 |
| Hesed House | $500 |
| Midwest Shelter for Homeless Vets | $400 |
| West Suburban Community Pantry | $250 |
| Misercordia | $75 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DPDUPAGE PADS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +31%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +124%
- PRPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $700 · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $200
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSING ADVOCACY AND DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +12%
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.
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.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
Community action house provides area families and individuals with food, clothing, shelter, and opportunities to build the necessary skills to achieve a stable and prosperous life.
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
The mission is to provide to the homeless, ages 18 and older, in the birmingham area a nurturing and caring environment offering supportive services that break the cycle of homelessness and empower individuals to achieve their highest…
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
Provide resources for low income clients.
Provide emergency food, housing and utilities for people in need in the community
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING ADVOCACY AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Three Canopies Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Three Canopies Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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