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Walter G Canipe 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.

$191k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
40
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 41
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Walter G Canipe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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 arriving39$191k5%
FY202440$180k15%
FY202338$172k3%
FY202241$204k17%
FY202141$194k20%
FY202036$176kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$525kArts & Culture$267kReligion$134kHealth$75kFood & Nutrition$31kYouth Development$24kCrime & Legal$23kEnvironment$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
KY
TN
NC
DC
AL
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
The Theatrical Outfit Inc$117,50062%
Duke University$85,50060%
St James the Less Catholic Church$62,8346n/a
Savannah Music Festivalinc$60,00060%
The University of Georgia Foundation$34,00060%
St Benedicts Episcopal Church LLC$31,5006n/a
Christian Brothers Institute of California$25,0005n/a
Food Bank for Monterey County$19,50060%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$17,50060%
All Saints Episcopal Day School$17,0004n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Walter G Canipe Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Theatrical Outfit Inc$117,50062%
Duke University$85,50060%
St James the Less Catholic Church$62,8346n/a
Savannah Music Festivalinc$60,00060%
The University of Georgia Foundation$34,00060%
St Benedicts Episcopal Church LLC$31,5006n/a
Christian Brothers Institute of California$25,0005n/a
Food Bank for Monterey County$19,50060%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$17,50060%
All Saints Episcopal Day School$17,0004n/a
Natividad Medical Foundation$16,50060%
Washington Union Educational Foundation$14,50065%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$13,50020%
Dad's Garage Inc$12,50060%
The Summit Counseling Center Inc$12,25050%
St Benedicts Episcopal Day School Inc$11,5003n/a
Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc$11,00060%
The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc$9,50040%
Pfeiffer University$8,50060%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$8,33320%
The Lovett School Inc$7,50060%
Big Sur Land Trust$7,00060%
Vocal Point Inc$6,50030%
Path to Shine$6,00041%
Equal Justice Initiative$4,25020%
Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Inc$4,00020%
Wonderful Days Preschool Inc$3,00031%
Rancho Cielo Inc$3,00020%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Sierra Club$2,00010%
Georgia Conservancy Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($481k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter G Canipe Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Theatrical Outfit Inc: $117,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDuke University: $85,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah Music Festivalinc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of Georgia Foundation: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for Monterey County: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNatividad Medical Foundation: $16,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Union Educational Foundation: $14,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDad's Garage Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Summit Counseling Center Inc: $12,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPfeiffer University: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $8,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lovett School Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVocal Point Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPath to Shine: $6,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWonderful Days Preschool Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRancho Cielo Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Conservancy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 26.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 Walter G Canipe Foundation

How much does Walter G Canipe Foundation give?
Walter G Canipe Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $191,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Walter G Canipe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (24%), Religion (12%).
Who are Walter G Canipe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Theatrical Outfit Inc ($118k), Duke University ($86k), St James the Less Catholic Church ($63k).
Does Walter G Canipe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter G Canipe 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 Walter G Canipe Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Walter G Canipe Foundation based?
Walter G Canipe Foundation 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 60 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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