Arizona · Nonprofit
Grand Canyon Institute
Grand Canyon Institute (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,722 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($187,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $397k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Grand Canyon Institute does
Mission
The Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) is a non-partisan think tank that provides fact-based research and education to decision-makers and the public on policies that affect the economic, fiscal and social future of Arizona. The principal objective of GCI is to elevate the fiscal and economic implications of policy initiatives and decisions for the benefit of policymakers, the media, and the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Survey to determine if Arizona voters would support a paid family and medical leave program in the state. The survey was led by GCI in partnership with Arizona Center for Empowerment, the Arizona Early Childhood Alliance, and the Arizona Center for Economic Progress. The survey was conducted with support from Pritzker Children's Initiative.
$35,363 spent50% of program spendingReview of fiscal impact of transferring federal lands to Arizona.
$7,700 spent11% of program spendingReview of pilot program regarding disciplinary records and if data would impact use of Advanced Weapons Detection Systems at schools
$5,925 spent8% of program spendingGeneral research projects in addition to a survey of full-time workers by occupational level and union membership of Sky Harbor Airport workers. Analyses including but not limited to: Housing security (cost relative to income, late on rent/mortgage/whether expect to pay rent next month), Moving and children (looking for multiple moves in households with children (undermines academic success), Food Security Index tabulation, Incomes relative to family size. open ended comments categorized). Other research includes but is not limited to costs of Universal ESA Voucher Program.
$21,418 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,406.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $67k to $124k (+85%).
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: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Grand Canyon Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Deanna Anderson
Executive Director
Board chair
Jim Mapstead
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $131k → $25k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Grand Canyon Institute’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
Grand Canyon Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Grand Canyon Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 74% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of Grand Canyon Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
89% of Grand Canyon Institute's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Grand Canyon Institute's revenue fell 54% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Grand Canyon Institute
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Grand Canyon Institute?
- Grand Canyon Institute (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,722 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($187,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Grand Canyon Institute have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $396,722 in grants to Grand Canyon Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grand Canyon Institute?
- HOPEWELL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $187,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grand Canyon Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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