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Welland, ON · Charitable organization

Christian Benefit Shop of the Brethren in Christ Church Inc

The christian benefit shop operates 2 thrift stores in the niagara region.

C$331k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$124k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
C$32,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$694k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mennonite Central Committee OntarioC$200,000
Port Colborne Community Association for Resource ExtensionC$33,200
Open Arms Mission Welland Inc.C$32,500
The Hope Centre: Community Resources in AdvocacyC$32,500
Holy Trinity ChurchC$15,000
South Niagara Life MinstriesC$10,350
Camp Kahquah Corporation LimitedC$5,000
St. James and St. Brendan'sC$2,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 8 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
92%

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

  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +32%
  • PC
    Port Colborne Community Association for Resource Extension
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +64%
  • TH
    The Hope Centre: Community Resources in Advocacy
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$85k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • FE
    FORT ERIE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -16%
  • SN
    SOUTH NIAGARA LIFE CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k
  • NL
    NIAGARA LIFE WELLAND CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue -93%

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
Riverside Christian Reformed Church of Wellandport

We provide weekly public services for worship and prayer; relgious education and instruction to youth and children; pastoral and compassionate care for all ages; and ministries to men women youth and children. we donate funds to missions…

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2
Community Living Port Colborne - Wainfleet

Support individuals with an intellectual disability to develop their fullest potential to live learn work and participate in all aspects of living in the community. ongoing programs include a variety of residential family share community…

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3
Port Mcneill Full Gospel Church

We provide bible teaching in accordance with our statement of faith. we conduct weekly worship services. children have learning times. we offer pastoral care to those in need. we offer encouragement prayer. we offer meals to those who are…

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4
Coastal Church

We hold worship services weekly and teach the bible at our weekly services and home meetings. we provide ministries for men women youth and children on a weekly or monthly basis. we operate a recovery program for those needing help with…

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5
Life Church Barrie

Conducting worship services Sunday school youth activities prayer services Outreach Christian counseling Hospital visitations Children's camps Bible studies and Live Streaming of church services via YouTube. Compassion ministries…

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6
Foundation of Resources for Teens of West Niagara

The following services to youth: well balanced meals offered daily; community service hours; guidance in making healthy choices; access to computers; job finding support; positive peer interaction; community referrals; crisis intervention;…

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7
Northend Church

Sunday morning worship services kids Sunday morning programming junior youth and youth weekly midweek program young adults weekly events young mom's weekly morning bible study weekly prayer meetings senior monthly events ladies events 4…

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8
Life Baptist Church Incorporated

Sunday morning services in person and on line weekly youth meetings care group and prayer meetings men and women's groups meet quarterly money is donated locally to the salvation army the food bank the bridge teen challenge and the…

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9
Westview Centre 4 Women

Offers essential services to those struggling with homelessness incomes below the poverty line social isolation addiction and mental health issues. We provide a community of services including hot meals clothing food pantry laundry…

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10
Hope Community Church Inc.

Weekly worship services,life skill and religious training for adults,youth and children through study and organized events and activities. Community outreach including teaching,fellowship,dinners and family fun activities. Personal and…

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11
Support and Hope for Individuals and Families Today

1. outreach program: this program provides supplies food counselling and referral to other agencies as needed to vulnerable individuals and families in new tecumseth & surrounding areas. 2. emergency overnight shelter program (nov-apr) -…

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12
Peace Lutheran Church Inc.

Religious services bible studies sunday school food bank mission work summer vacation bible school youth group men's & women's group. young adult group community outreach programs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Arms Mission of Welland Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Camp Kahquah Corporation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIO — C$1,100,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPort Colborne Community Association for Resource Extension — C$84,800 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hope Centre: Community Resources in Advocacy — C$84,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOpen Arms Mission Welland Inc. — C$69,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP KAHQUAH CORPORATION LIMITED — C$40,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSouth Niagara Life Minstries — C$26,350 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetHoly Trinity Church — C$19,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWELLAND BE IN CHRIST CHURCH — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFORT ERIE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE INC. — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA LIFE WELLAND CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH TABERNACLE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING WELLAND PELHAM — C$800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT COLBORNE BE IN CHRIST CHURCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELLISM FELLOWSHIP OF ONTARIO — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORKS ROAD EAST UNITED CHURCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PORT COLBORNE INC. — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUTH FOR TEENS — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHSTONE FOUNDATION — C$300 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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraWainfleet Be In Chris…Morgans Point United …Port Colborne Be in C…Wise Guys Charity FundGlad Tidings Church o…The River Realty Foun…Ctfs Employees' Chari…Blue Sea Philanthropy…Ontario Power Generat…Christian Stewardship…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON12.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · Wainfleet Be In Christ Church · Morgans Point United Church · Port Colborne Be in Christ Church · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Glad Tidings Church of God (Fonthill) · The River Realty Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Christian Stewardship Services

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 20 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 123782435:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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