Brigden, ON · Charitable organization
Brigden United Church
Drop In Centre for children & parents Sunday worship Women's Group baptism confirmation weddings funerals home visits for sick & shut ins hospital and nursing home visits gathering for social interaction grief and marriage guidance dinners bible study Messy Church (children's programs with families) Outreach (supplies for…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$6k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Church of Canada | C$10,803 |
| Canada FoodGrains Bank | C$4,490 |
| Royal Canadian Legion - Brigden Branch | C$550 |
| Christmas For Everyone | C$300 |
| Operation Christmas Tree | C$300 |
| Canadian Bible Society | C$25 |
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 +71% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$550 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
- UCUnited Church of Canada-Mission & Service7× · 2018–2024 · C$81k · revenue +28%
- CFCanadian Food Grains Bank2× · 2018–2019 · C$4k · revenue +71%
- IOInn of the Good Shepherd3× · 2020–2023 · C$3k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- UCUnited Church of Canada - Mission & Serviceone grant, 2017 · C$13k
- CFCanadian Food Grains Bankone grant, 2017 · C$4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · C$1k
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.
This food bank provide food hampers every wednesday to those experiencing food insecurity. this food bank also distributes additional 'christmas' hampers where
The flamborough food bank is a non-for-profit community based organization that supplements individual and family household food and personal care need through community donations and resources. it is located in carlisle united church. the…
Provides food bank services to community members. provides a christmas program where christmas gifts are purchase and christmas food hampers are given to members.
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Provide supports and services to persons (children and adults) with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities via the following seven programs; 1. employment counselling and job development; 2. group living residences 24 hr support;…
Money received from personel donations food drives & money jars. food hampers prepared throught out the year - xmas hampers & each child receives gifts
Accept and process cash donations; process food donations and give to food bank; maintain records; issue yr-end receipts; purchase gift vouchers for christmas hamper request; assist with annual drives for food donations.
Offered a weekly food bank for people to take home groceries provided emergency supplies (eg. tents blankets) when needed provided referals to other programs (eg. counseling) when appropriate provided gift cards to the local grocery store…
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
Food bank christmas bureau housing help program niagara nutrition partners
On the premises (234 st. martins rd) operate a food & clothing bank which is open to clients the 2nd & 3rd wednesday of each month. clients registered with us receive a monthly grocery order (lasts~1week) and can use the clothing bank to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbourlink Sarnia-Lambton and the most unlike its peers is The United Church of Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 United Church of Canada-Mission & Service ↗
- Who funds Canadian Food Grains Bank ↗
- Who funds Inn of the Good Shepherd ↗
- Who funds Operation Christmas Tree ↗
- Who funds Christmas For Everyone ↗
- Who funds St. Joseph's Hospice ↗
- Who funds Lambton United Church Centre ↗
- Who funds Neighbourlink ↗
- Who funds Alzheimer Society Sarnia-Lambton ↗
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: Sarnia Community Foundation · London Road West United Church · Forest United Church · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.