Minnesota · Nonprofit
CANVAS HEALTH INC
CANVAS HEALTH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,534,636 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($618,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Canvas Health Inc does
Mission
To be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Canvas health ceased its chisago county jail program and emhc program during 2025. New mobile crisis service programs began with carver and mcleod counties.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Canvas health ceased its chisago county jail program and emhc program during 2025. New mobile crisis service programs began with carver and mcleod counties.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
1. Outpatient therapy - offers a variety of services to children and adults (individual, family, and group formats) for problems ranging from stress and adjustment disorders to severe and chronic mental illness. Our services begin with an interview so that we can determine the nature of and extent of the problem, followed by the implementation of a customized treatment plan. 2. Substance use disorder treatment services - provides substance use disorder treatment in a variety of forms and settings for adults and adolescents with licensed alcohol and drug counselors. Services include assessment, consultation, education, family programming, and outpatient substance use disorder treatment. 3. Mobile crisis services - responds to mental health crises or emergencies with face-to-face assessment, intervention, and stabilization services at home, school, or in the community.4. Suicide prevention - a community education and training program that provides suicide prevention & postvention services to the dakota communities and 57 counties in minnesota. 5. Psychiatry - provides adult psychiatric medical services, provided by psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, medical…
$15,879,891 spent$11,557,067 earned by the program53% of program spendingChildren & family services1. Outpatient therapy - teaches children and families (individual, family, and group formats) how to develop problem-solving skills and cope with stress and a variety of emotional and behavioral issues such as: test anxiety, bullying, peer pressure, and many others.2. Mental health case management - assists children with a severe emotional disturbance and their families with assessing, accessing, coordinating, monitoring, and planning mental health services. 3. Family treatment program - provides flexible, culturally competent in-home and community-based therapy and treatment services that work to build positive family relational patterns and reduce disruptive behaviors. This program focuses on reducing the need for out-of-home placement in residential level of care. Also provides individual and group skills development to transition age youth. 4. Therapeutic support - collaborates with local school districts, staff are on site to provide mental health services to children who are severely and emotionally disturbed, and to provide consultation and assistance to special education teachers and their staff. 5. Children & adolescent day treatment provides in…
$10,723,458 spent$7,804,318 earned by the program36% of program spendingSpecialized services1. Assessment and consultation - provides assessment information and consultation on clients to referral system, such as the court, in order to assist in determining the appropriate level of care necessary for clients with substance use problems. 2. Outpatient substance use treatment services for adults - helps individuals (adult program and an adolescent program) take action to change their thinking and behaviors to both prevent substance use relapse and to form a more positive relationship with themselves, others and their community. Approach includes cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, and 12 step supports.3. Outpatient substance use treatment services for adolescents- a cognitive behavioral, non-traditional outpatient substance use treatment program for adolescents (age 13 - 18) who are at high risk for out-of-home placement due to substance use. 4. Share (sober housing and recovery environment) - provides permanent housing and supportive services for chemically dependent, homeless, single parents and their children.
$3,087,726 spent$2,247,185 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,691,075.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $16M (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 48% · 2021 40% · 2022 33% · 2023 25% · 2024 26% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of CANVAS HEALTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Khu Thao
CEO
Board chair
Karen Dodson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $185k → $287k.
14 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CANVAS HEALTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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 HEALTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 HEALTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
54% of CANVAS HEALTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of CANVAS HEALTH INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $825k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 HEALTH INC has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CANVAS HEALTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $399k on record — $399k federal, $42 state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$399k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $42
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CANVAS HEALTH INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Home Free in Washington County LLC · disregarded
- Share at Forest Ridge LLC · disregarded
- Hsi - Crisis Connection LLC · disregarded
- Forest Ridge of Forest Lake Limited Partnership · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC?
- CANVAS HEALTH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,534,636 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($618,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANVAS HEALTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,534,636 in grants to CANVAS HEALTH INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANVAS HEALTH INC?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $618,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANVAS HEALTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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