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CANVAS CREDIT UNION

CANVAS CREDIT UNION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$361M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$436M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Canvas Credit Union does

Mission

Canvas Credit Union will strive to help individuals and families make better decisions and grow stronger financially. We will provide simple and relevant products and services at a consistently honest value. We will help members afford life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The credit union is owned by approximately 294,000 members. The credit union provides financial services to its members, such as consumer lending, shared branching services, deposit/transactional services, mortgage lending, commercial lending, home banking, bill payment and other financial services.

    $276,485,261 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,485,261.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($173M) Expenses 100 ($144M) Net assets 100 ($277M)2020 Revenue 109 ($188M) Expenses 112 ($161M) Net assets 110 ($305M)2021 Revenue 115 ($198M) Expenses 99 ($143M) Net assets 130 ($359M)2022 Revenue 137 ($237M) Expenses 130 ($188M) Net assets 148 ($409M)2023 Revenue 178 ($308M) Expenses 192 ($276M) Net assets 148 ($411M)2024 Revenue 208 ($361M) Expenses 233 ($337M) Net assets 157 ($436M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (208)Expenses (233)Net assets (157)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.6B to $4.3B (+19%).

$2.7B
$3.3B
$3.6B
$4.3B
$4.4B
$4.6B
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$29M
’19
$27M
’20
$55M
’21
$49M
’22
$32M
’23
$24M
’24
5.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Tom Lash

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

201920202021202220232024
Listed322923222123
Joined·+4+2+2+3+4
No longer listed·78342
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CANVAS CREDIT UNION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

CANVAS CREDIT UNION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CANVAS CREDIT UNION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Canvas Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANVAS CREDIT UNION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CANVAS CREDIT UNION?
CANVAS CREDIT UNION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANVAS CREDIT UNION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to CANVAS CREDIT UNION.
Who is the largest funder of CANVAS CREDIT UNION?
MOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANVAS CREDIT UNION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing