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Bridgewater, NS · Private foundation

Around the Bend Foundation

The foundation obtains capital contributions and uses income and capital to make donations to other qualifing charities

C$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$125k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$300,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGADOON CHILDREN'S CAMP SOCIETYC$300,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$125,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.6M · 5 repeat orgsC$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$3.6M
C$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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

  • BC
    BRIGADOON CHILDERN'S CAMP SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.3M · revenue +70%
  • CC
    Canadian Cancer Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$895k · revenue +6%
  • IH
    IWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$435k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • HS
    HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHOREgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$75k · revenue +383%
  • CU
    Chester United Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -99%
  • MD
    Muscular Dystrophy Canada
    one grant, 2017 · C$12k · revenue -2%

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
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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2
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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3
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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4
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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6
Cobequid Community Health Centre Foundation

The Cobequid Foundation raises much needed funds and grants these funds to the Nova Scotia Health Authority - Central Zone for the purpose of supporting the capital equipment needs of the Cobequid Community Health Centre. This fundraising…

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7
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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8
South Huron Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for improvement of health care services in the area served by south huron hospital

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9
Four Counties Health Services Foundation

Four Counties Health Services Foundation (FCHS Foundation) continues to support Four Counties Health Services (FCHS) in achieving its mission to provide the health care we would expect for our own families keeping care close to home. With…

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10
Buchanan Memorial Hospital Charitable Foundation

Support ongoing health care in the communities of Northern Cape Breton and to visitors by providing a facility to attract specialists in various fields in order to hold clinics in the local area; Fundraising to support the costs of ongoing…

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11
Northern Cancer Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north (hsn) and health sciences north research institute (hsnri). amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment…

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12
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chester United Baptist Church. 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

8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
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 budgetBRIGADOON CHILDERN'S CAMP SOCIETY — C$2,250,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$895,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$435,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE — C$75,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetChester United Baptist Church — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Canada — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP 2 OVERCOME — C$6,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTEAM CANADA HELPING HANDS — C$2,000 over 2y, 5.9% 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.

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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 8 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 856077763:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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