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Brantford, ON · Public foundation

Brant Community Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to act as a community leader and catalyst and to be a vehicle to provide a way for donors to improve their community forever building and holding a permanent endowment the income of which is to be used to meet the changing needs and opportunities across all sectors of the communities of brant…

C$803k
Granted FY2023
200
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 200 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k187 grants · C$413k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$279k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$110k
C$1,500
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterC$60,000
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterC$50,000
Mississaugas of the Credit First NationC$45,000
Organized Kaos Life and TradeC$41,485
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterpC$40,000
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnteC$33,400
Hamilton Naturalists' ClubC$26,219
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterC$20,000
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterC$20,000
T.I.C.K. Inc.C$17,356
Paris Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup EnterC$12,450
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of BrantC$11,899
University of Guelph-Ont. Veterinary CollegeC$11,512
Brant Community Healthcare System FoundationC$8,682
BGC Brantford (Boys & Girls Club of Brantford)C$8,397
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 74 repeat orgsC$391k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
23

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

99%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$185k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
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

  • CM
    CANADIAN MILITARY HERITAGE MUSEUM
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$268k · revenue +44% · 82% of their budget
  • CA
    CROSSING ALL BRIDGES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$98k · revenue +21%
  • HN
    Hamilton Naturalists' Club
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$78k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF BRANT (HEALTH HUB)
    one grant, 2022 · C$84k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$17k
  • ST
    SHINING THROUGH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k

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
Brant Land Trust

To identify preserve and restore the natural environment and heritage sites in the geographic region of the county of brant and the city of brantford. these include environmental scientific cultural scenic open space historic architectural…

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2
Brant Food for Thought

Brant food for thought supports students nourishment programs in brantford and brant county with funding volunteer support programs and training. approximately 10 700 children participate weekly in a healthy breafast lunch and/or snack…

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3
University Women's Club of Brantford Scholarship Fund

Provision of scholarships to female students graduating from brant count high schools provisionof scholarships to mature female students from brant county

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4
The James Hillier Foundation

To provide scholarships to brant county high school students entering post secondary education in the field of sciences

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5
Brant Community Healthcare System
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6
Brant Community Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to act as a community leader and catalyst and to be a vehicle to provide a way for donors to improve their community forever building and holding a permanent endowment the income of which is to be used to…

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7
Brandon University

Brandon university provides the resources and facilities for the education of undergraduate students graduate students and for faculty members to conduct research.

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8
Brantford Horticulture Society

Scholarships to encourage future horticulture education. in person monthly membership meetings providing support and advise and training for gardeners. monthly newsletter for members maintain teaching gardens

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9
Brantford Welcome in Resource Centre
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10
The Brant Foundation for Persons With Developmental Needs

Provide buildings which are rented to the brantford district association for community living for use as group homes for the use and benefit of all persona of brant community with development needs

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11
The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Georgian College is an educational institution that provides full-time post secondary programs including partnerships with various universities providing upgrading trades and apprenticeship programs career interest courses and provides…

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12
Brandon Festival of the Arts Incorporated

To provide education and performance opportunities through competitive and non-competitive classes in the arts encourage skill development through scholarships constructive criticism and semonstration by competent adjudicators for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Grand Erie Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Paris Port Dover Pipe Band. 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

107 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. 107 of the 120 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
78/107
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN MILITARY HERITAGE MUSEUM — C$268,234 over 3y, 82% of budgetBRANT COUNTY SPCA — C$108,535 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCROSSING ALL BRIDGES FOUNDATION — C$97,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNTY OF BRANT (HEALTH HUB) — C$84,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHamilton Naturalists' Club — C$77,730 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetKIDS CAN FLY — C$76,938 over 3y, 10% of budgetBRANT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$70,525 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOrganized Kaos Life and Trade — C$54,484 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetT.I.C.K. Inc. — C$51,118 over 3y, 100% of budgetGLENHYRST ARE GALLERY OF BRANT — C$50,344 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBRANTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — C$49,156 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH — C$46,973 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BRANTFORD — C$45,297 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCROSSING ALL BRIDGES LEARNING CENTRE — C$43,925 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLANSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATIONIS — C$41,274 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$36,693 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARIS PORT DOVER PIPE BAND — C$28,384 over 3y, 24% of budgetBRANT FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$23,575 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFIVE OAKS PARIS — C$18,850 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$16,835 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhy Not City Missions — C$16,789 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCANADIAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE MUSEUM — C$16,699 over 2y, 14% of budgetPARIS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-RAW CARROT SOUP — C$15,759 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBRANT HALDIMAND NORFOLK ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD / NOTRE — C$15,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNOVA VITA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES — C$15,499 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND RIVER CHORUS — C$15,362 over 3y, 30% of budgetSTRONG START CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$15,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARIS MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$14,920 over 2y, 25% of budgetParis Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot Soup Enter — C$14,086 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VALLEY EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetGRAND RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$13,924 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES OF BRANT — C$13,800 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetArnold Anderson Sport Fund — C$13,787 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCAMP QUALITY CANADA — C$13,298 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetScientists in School.ca — C$13,149 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRANT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$12,744 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE — C$12,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBRANT UNITED WAY — C$11,238 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSexual Assault Centre of Brant - Brantford Youth Pri — C$10,899 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSENSITY DEAFBLIND AND SENSORY SUPPORT NETWORK OF — C$10,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANTFORD MUSIC CLUB — C$10,213 over 3y, 12% of budgetGRAND RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING — C$10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHER MAJESTY'S ROYAL CHAPEL OF THE MOHAWKS (ST. PAUL'S) — C$10,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetArcady — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHILD HUNGER BRANTFORD — C$9,999 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBIG BORTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GRAND ERIE — C$9,960 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWILLOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$9,700 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Brant United WayStephen Smith & Dorot…The Rotary Club of Br…The Roger and Edith D…The Hensen FoundationRotary Club of Brantf…Thrive Church CanadaThe Cowan FoundationHamilton Community Fo…The Wayne Gretzky Fou…Brantford Cornerstone…Kiwanis Club of Brant…
Brant United WayON33.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brant United Way · Stephen Smith & Dorothy Woltz Foundation · The Rotary Club of Brantford Sunrise · The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation · The Hensen Foundation · Rotary Club of Brantford Charitable Foundation · Thrive Church Canada · The Cowan Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · The Wayne Gretzky Foundation (Canada)/La Fondation Canadienne Wayne Gretzky · Brantford Cornerstone Church · Kiwanis Club of Brantford Charitable Corporation

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 120 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 2023-05-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 883564494:2023-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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