Colorado · Nonprofit
CANVAS FOUNDATION
CANVAS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,150 to it, the largest being TRUWEST CREDIT UNION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $260k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $417k
What Canvas Foundation does
Mission
Canvas Foundation's mission is to share our hearts with our communities through a focus on schools, families, military, and first responders. Our goal is to support and nurture these critical areas in order to make a lasting footprint in our communities. Cont on sch o.the foundation will offer scholarships to students to help them further their education and community grants to local schools and non-profit organizations who have demonstrated character, leadership and ethical values. The foundation will also provide other charitable activities and programs that reflect the interests of the communities we serve. These funds are intended to create long-term relationships between Canvas Foundation and the recipients, who we hope will continue to help us continue to promote our focus on schools, families, military, and first responders in our surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Donations to support our pillars of schools, family, military and first responders.
$158,473 spentof which $158,473 as grants75% of program spendingScholarhips to support higher education for students
$53,500 spentof which $53,500 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $107k to $237k (+122%).
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.
113% of CANVAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Malcolm Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $584k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Canvas Credit Union). These are real filings, and they are not money CANVAS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CANVAS FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
CANVAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CANVAS FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
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.
Against its field
CANVAS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,127 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,127 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CANVAS FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Canvas Credit Union · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANVAS FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- CANVAS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,150 to it, the largest being TRUWEST CREDIT UNION ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANVAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $24,150 in grants to CANVAS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANVAS FOUNDATION?
- TRUWEST CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANVAS FOUNDATION 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing