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East St Paul, MB · Private foundation

Armin & Denise Martens Foundation Inc.

The charity made gifts to qualified donees.

C$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$105k
C$2,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH KILDONAN MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCHC$55,000
HANNAH FAMILY SUPPORT SOCIETYC$50,000
GERMAN-CANADIAN BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONC$20,000
POWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIESC$2,000
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESSC$1,000
MULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
SPRINGFIELD HEIGHTS NURSERY SCHOOLC$1,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 13 repeat orgsC$240k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • NK
    NORTH KIDONAN MANNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$665k · revenue +11%
  • HF
    HANNAH FAMILY SUPPORT SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$605k · revenue +10% · 40% of their budget
  • GB
    GERMAN-CANADIAN BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$143k · revenue +20% · 68% of their budget

Funded once

  • VC
    Vineyard Christian Fellowship - Winnipeg Centre Inc
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue -40%
  • WV
    WINNIPEG VINYARD CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +56%
  • DG
    DAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Inc.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Manitoba supports the international relief development and peace…

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2
Faith Academy Inc.

Educational programs for Kindergarten to Grade 12. Counselling students. Working with the inner city of Winnipeg. Overseas and local missions programs. Sponsoring of a significant number of under-privileged students transporting students…

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3
The Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba

1. denomination office for the churches in manitoba with our conference. 2. promote church planting in manitoba communities 3. provide leadership development in existing churches 4. train and mentor people for service in their local…

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4
Canadian Mennonite University

Christian University Education

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5
Youth for Christ Morden Inc.

Ministry to teens through school-based partnerships. ministry to youth and young adults through a variety of sports related programs. ministry to youth and young adults at our two drop in centres. ministry to youth through summer camp…

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6
Children International Canada

Children international canada carries out its charitable activities for the purpose of breaking generational poverty for the children they serve. this is done by delivering high-impact programs in four crucial areas: health education…

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7
Christ's Hope International- Canada

Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…

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8
Mennonite Educational Institute Society

Mei schools provides holistic education to students from preschool to grade 12. developing students socially intellectually spiritually emotionally and physically with a christian perspective while integrating bc curriculum. mei schools…

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9
Youth With a Mission (Gta) Inc.

Ongoing programs - evangelism is an integral part of both training and mercy ministries but also an emphasis of its own. drama music performing arts and sports camps are among the creative tools ywam staff use to share their faith in a way…

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10
Mennonite Central Committee Canada

Please see our website and within the tab 'Learn More' there is a section entitled 'What We Do'. In every country where MCC works we partner with local churches and organizations with similar values. Together we work in three areas:…

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11
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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12
Jewish Women International Foundation of Winnipeg

Programs committed to improving the quality of life for women, children and families and end the cycle of violence through education and advocacy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is David Goodman Youth Community Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

32 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH KIDONAN MANNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH — C$665,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetHANNAH FAMILY SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$605,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetGERMAN-CANADIAN BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION — C$143,000 over 8y, 68% of budgetVineyard Christian Fellowship - Winnipeg Centre Inc — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration Rising — C$55,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWINNIPEG VINYARD CHURCH — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetPower to Change Ministries — C$31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetATHLETES IN ACTION — C$25,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetSPRINGFIELD HEIGHTS NURSERY SCHOOL — C$19,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetBring Back Hope — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWinnipeg Foundation-Delmore & Emily Crewson Family Fund — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIMLI BIBLE CAMP — C$6,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetMully Children's Family Charitable Foundation — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOBA OPERA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKSPRING FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHY ENCOUNTER INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSecret Place Minisrty Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetMANITOBA GERMAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION LTD — C$4,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCEO MINISTRIES INC — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services Agency of Vancouver — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joy Smith Foundation Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED (YOUTH FOR CHRIST WINNIPEG) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENNONITE BRETHREN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE INC. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Youth Alive — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastview Community Church — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Buller Foundation…North Kildonan Mennon…Abundance CanadaGiftpact Foundation I…The Winnipeg Foundati…Falk Family Foundatio…Portage Avenue ChurchThe Bill and Margaret…Wcpd FoundationAll Charities CampaignNicola Wealth Private…Link Charity Canada I…
The Buller Foundation Inc.MB12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Buller Foundation Inc. · North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church · Abundance Canada · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · The Winnipeg Foundation · Falk Family Foundation Inc. · Portage Avenue Church · The Bill and Margaret Fast Family Foundation Inc. · Wcpd Foundation · All Charities Campaign · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 856893227:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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