Amherstburg, ON · Public foundation
Amherstburg Community Foundation
Encourage and facilitate community philanthropy in support of social recreational and cultural organizations having initiatives that contribute to making the Town of Amherstburg a great place to visit and an even better place to live.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$14k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Windsor Essex Bike Community | C$17,500 |
| Wings Avian Rehabilitation Centre | C$5,000 |
| The Runaways Farm | C$5,000 |
| Amherstburg Pickleball Association | C$4,260 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmherstburg Food and Fellowship Mission3× · 2020–2023 · C$32k · revenue +7%
- ACAmherstburg Community Services3× · 2020–2023 · C$20k · revenue +35%
- AHAmherstburg Historic Sites Association2× · 2020–2021 · C$15k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF AMHERSTBURGone grant, 2019 · C$95k
- BVBELLE VUE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2019 · C$49k
- COCounty of Essex Library - Amherstburg Branchone grant, 2021 · C$41k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operating a community health care clinic.
Operating a museum
Operation of local museum & gift shop
Giving educational tours to promote public interest of late 19th & early 20th century gas and steam powered engines and antique tractors and maintain a static display.
Operation of a woodmens museum
Operation of museum and community memory garden
Operation of historical museum and archive
The operation of two independent group homes designed to care for and integrate special need adults into the community.
Perpetual care and maintenance of the amherst cemetery including sale of new lots opening/closing graves etc.
This charity provides food; grocery gift cards; some clothing articles like socks hats mittens; to clients in need throughout the year.
Operation and administration of shelburne's museums by the sea complex which consists of shelburne county museum dory shop museum ross-thomson house & store museum cox warehouse coyle house and tottie's store.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherstburg Food and Fellowship Mission and the most unlike its peers is Essex County Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Amherstburg Food and Fellowship Mission ↗
- Who funds Essex Region Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Amherstburg Freedom Museum ↗
- Who funds Amherstburg Community Services ↗
- Who funds Amherstburg Historic Sites Association ↗
- Who funds Wings Avian Rehabilitation Centre ↗
- Who funds House Youth Centre ↗
- Who funds Victorian Order of Nurses Windsor-Essex County ↗
- Who funds Bryserswood Youth Camp Optimist Club ↗
- Who funds The Society of St Vincent De Paul ↗
- Who funds Safe Families - Windsor/Essex Chapter ↗
- Who funds Essex County Library ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Windsoressex Community Foundation · United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County · BenefAction Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.