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St. John'S, NL · Charitable organization

Basil Dobbin Family Foundation Inc.

Relief of poverty advancement of education and the support of heritage projects in the province of newfoundland and labrador by funding qualified donees.

C$725k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$392k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$6k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$327k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$392k
C$87,252
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLANDC$392,000
STELLA'S CIRCLEC$139,650
CONNECTIONS FOR SENIORSC$87,252
PEOPLE'S FOOD INSTITUTEC$50,000
CHOICES FOR YOUTHC$50,000
BURIN AREA FOOD PANTRYC$6,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 11 repeat orgsC$425k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$143k 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

  • MU
    MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +10%
  • T
    TNL
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +32% · 28% of their budget
  • SC
    STELLA'S CIRCLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$190k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TC
    THRIVE CYN
    one grant, 2023 · C$78k · revenue +24%
  • GS
    GRACE SPARKES HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$65k · revenue +35%
  • SS
    SPCA ST. JOHN'S
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -8%

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 Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation

The Foundation raises funds to meet the capital (equipment and infrastructure) research educational and programming needs of the Janeway Children's Hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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2
United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

United Way Newfoundland and Labrador works to advance the common good and create opportunities for a better life for the people of our province. Our vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is a province where all of our neighborhoods are…

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3
The Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

The community foundation of newfoundland and labrador is a public foundation created by and for the people of newfoundland and labrador. cfnl's vision is thriving newfoundland and labrador communities where everyone belongs. cfnl supports…

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4
Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

The autism society of newfoundland and labrador inc. delivers specialized programs and services for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (asd) and their familities/caregivers. programs are evidence based and focused on improving all…

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5
Newfoundland and Labrador Education Foundation Inc.

Provides grants to schools and teachers to enhance educational programs and activities. also provide scholarships to students to further their education.

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6
The John Howard Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

The John Howard Society of NL is a volunteer community based organization that works to reduce criminal activity by providing opportunities for the rehabilitation of offenders and advocates for reform through successful program…

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7
Ywca St.John's Inc.

Employment programs (for girls women and gender-diverse individuals including programs geared to those who are newcomers); power of being you (school based violence prevention program); youth leadership programs (for young women and…

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8
Saint John Community Health Support Foundation Inc.
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9
Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation Inc.

The SJRH Foundation raises funds to support excellence and innovation in healthcare through priority projects in support of the Saint John Regional Hospital as well as mental health projects in research education and community services in…

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10
Spinal Cord Injury Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

To support persons with spinal cord injuries and other physical/mental challenges to achieve independence self reliance and full community participation. These support services include peer support rehabilitation counselling…

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11
Newfoundland and Labrador Registered Nurses' Education and Research Trust

Provides scholarships and bursaries to qualified applicants

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12
Jimmy Pratt Foundation Inc.

'kids 2nd care' - newfoundland + labrador

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Eat Smart Foundation Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Tnl. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
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 budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$1,566,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTNL — C$1,000,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetSTELLA'S CIRCLE — C$189,650 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHOICES FOR YOUTH — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHRIVE CYN — C$78,202 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetGRACE SPARKES HOUSE — C$64,995 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetYMCA of NL — C$59,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPCA ST. JOHN'S — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S FOOD INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetST.JOHN'S STATUS OF WOMEN COUNCIL — C$26,200 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NEWFOUNDLAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Association for New Canadians — C$17,213 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST COAST TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Newfoundland and Labrador — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBURIN AREA FOOD PANTRY — C$6,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTeam Broken Earth — C$4,182 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club St.John's — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpera on the Avalon — C$3,745 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHealth Care Foundation — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEATING DISORDER FOUNDATION OF NL INC. — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNewfoundland Symphony Orchestra — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John's — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Progress Club — C$885 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDr.Jack Hand Legacy Foundation — C$600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKids Eat Smart Foundation NL — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWFOUNDLAND PONY SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKidney Foundation, Atlantic Canada — C$400 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.

United Way of Newfoun…Vocm CaresRedpoll FoundationGill Ratcliffe Founda…The O'Neill Foundatio…The Congregation of t…Williams Family Found…ClanMac FoundationDoane Grant Thornton …Right To FoodUnited Way Maritimes/…Rotary Club of St Joh…
United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.NL24.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. · Vocm Cares · Redpoll Foundation · Gill Ratcliffe Foundation · The O'Neill Foundation Inc. · The Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation · Williams Family Foundation Inc. · ClanMac Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Right To Food · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Rotary Club of St John's East Foundation 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 31 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 charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 837209410:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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