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Owen Sound, ON · Public foundation

Community Foundation Grey Bruce

Overall mission is to enrich the quality of life of the people of the community by supporting charitable educational and cultural organizations.

C$832k
Granted FY2024still arriving
121
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$61k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k100 grants · C$360k
  • C$10k–50k20 grants · C$410k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$61k
C$3,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF OWEN SOUNDC$61,423
UNITED WAY OF BRUCE GREYC$42,860
COMMUNITY LIVING KINCARDINE & DISTRICTC$35,000
OSPREY MUSEUMC$34,499
THE SALVATION ARMY OF ONTARIOC$30,275
HURON SHORES HOSPICEC$27,995
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION GREY BRUCE MENTAL HEALTHC$23,330
TOWN OF SOUTH BRUCE PENINSULAC$23,156
KEYSTONE CHILD YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICESC$22,420
BLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$22,099
GREY COUNTY KIWANIS FESTIVAL OF MUSICC$18,941
OWEN SOUND LITTLE THEATRE/THE ROXY THEATREC$18,634
DUNDALK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYC$15,375
COLLINGWOOD CLIMATE ACTION TEAMC$15,000
BRUCE GREY CHILD & FAMILY SERVICESC$13,666
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.1M · 167 repeat orgsC$548k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

167 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

167
79

Total granted

C$5.1M
C$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$86k 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BRUCE GREY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$252k · revenue +22%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY OF ONTARIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$139k · revenue +341%
  • BD
    BLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$127k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • RP
    REDWOOD PARK COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$68k · revenue +201%
  • CO
    Corporation of the City of Owen Sound
    one grant, 2022 · C$65k
  • SS
    South Simcoe Community Information Centre
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k · revenue +25%

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
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Cambrian College is Northern Ontario’s largest college with more than 100 programs including degree-level programs. Cambrian College is also a global college of choice with students from more than 60 countries. Cambrian’s main campus is in…

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2
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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3
South Bruce Grey Health Centre

South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) is a dynamic multi-site health care organization serving four rural communities in southern Grey and Bruce Counties. Each of our hospital sites offer acute care services a 24-7 emergency department…

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4
Ontario Headwaters Institute

Research & education; public & organizational engagement

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5
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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6
Orillia Silver Band

Osb - musician - graduate scholarship

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7
Arts Orillia

Development of cultural and educational activities and programs.

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8
The Orillia Museum of Art and History

Exhibits of work form the Museum's permanent collection of fine arts & artifacts. Curriculum based art education programs school tours & art activities. Summer & March break camps for children. Special interest workshops lectures demos…

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9
Northwestern Ontario Regional Science Fair

The NWO Science Fair holds a regional fair for all students from grades 4 to 12. This is a two day event that includes open hours activities and a full day of judging by professors and local experts and the last day is an awards…

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10
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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11
Environmental Education Ontario Inc

The organization supports the implementation of a strategic plan for environmental and sustainability education in Ontario that will ensure future generations inherit a healthy province.

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12
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Specialized and general hospital based health care for the people of Northwestern Ontario. Providing educational opportunities to students of the Northern School of Medicine in our roll as a teaching hospital.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Owen Sound Grey Bruce and the most unlike its peers is El Sistema Grey-Bruce (the Big Sound). 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

216 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. 216 of the 263 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
204/216
Grantees still filing
152/216
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF BRUCE GREY — C$251,652 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY OF ONTARIO — C$138,947 over 8y, 12% of budgetBLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$126,889 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREACH CENTRE GREY BRUCE — C$121,547 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetHOME & COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES OF GREY BRUCE — C$116,564 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING KINCARDINE & DISTRICT — C$110,908 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetOWEN SOUND HUNGER AND RELIEF EFFORT — C$108,287 over 5y, 11% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce — C$108,124 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGrey Bruce Hospice — C$98,419 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGREY COUNTY KIWANIS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC — C$93,963 over 8y, 41% of budgetSAFE 'N SOUND RESIDENCE — C$92,513 over 8y, 11% of budgetWomen's House Serving Bruce & Grey — C$90,938 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetKeystone Child Youth & Family Services — C$88,449 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF OWEN SOUND GREY BRUCE — C$81,147 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRUCE GREY CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — C$77,840 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST GREY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$77,140 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTRE GREY & BRUCE INC. — C$76,991 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY — C$72,962 over 8y, 11% of budgetOWEN SOUND LITTLE THEATRE/THE ROXY THEATRE — C$72,100 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetREDWOOD PARK COMMUNITIES — C$67,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREY BRUCE — C$67,191 over 7y, 11% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOLK SOCIETY — C$62,878 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHARMONY CENTRE OWEN SOUND — C$61,300 over 5y, 23% of budgetOjibwe Cultural Foundation — C$58,140 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetGeorgian Riding Association for Challenged Equestrians — C$58,068 over 8y, 15% of budgetOwen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation — C$57,001 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGrey Sauble Conservation Authority — C$52,349 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH — C$49,312 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetLEITH SUMMER FESTIVAL — C$48,714 over 6y, 62% of budgetOwen Sound North Grey Public Library — C$47,596 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBruce Grey Mentorship — C$47,009 over 8y, 26% of budgetBruce Peninsula Bird Observatory — C$40,549 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetSAUGEEN HOSPICE INCORPORATED — C$40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION GREY BRUCE MENTAL HEALTH — C$38,338 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHURON SHORES HOSPICE — C$37,995 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLEDGE LEADERSHIP — C$37,454 over 4y, 15% of budgetHOPE HAVEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND FAMILY CAMP INC. — C$35,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$35,095 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOSPREY MUSEUM — C$34,499 over 1y, 33% of budgetThe Meeting Place Tobermory — C$33,775 over 5y, 14% of budgetGEORGIAN COLLEGE — C$33,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrincess Margaret Hospital — C$28,935 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Simcoe Community Information Centre — C$28,800 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEVENTS FOR LIFE CENTRE INC. — C$28,762 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Grey Bruce — C$27,766 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY OWEN SOUND CORPS — C$24,965 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE GREY CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD — C$24,842 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ARTS — C$24,820 over 8y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BRUCE GREY ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds BLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds REACH CENTRE GREY BRUCE ↗
  • Who funds HOME & COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES OF GREY BRUCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING KINCARDINE & DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds OWEN SOUND HUNGER AND RELIEF EFFORT ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce ↗
  • Who funds Grey Bruce Hospice ↗
  • Who funds GREY COUNTY KIWANIS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE 'N SOUND RESIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Child Youth & Family Services ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF OWEN SOUND GREY BRUCE ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE GREY CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST GREY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTRE GREY & BRUCE INC. ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds OWEN SOUND LITTLE THEATRE/THE ROXY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD PARK COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREY BRUCE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIAN BAY FOLK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY CENTRE OWEN SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Ojibwe Cultural Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Georgian Riding Association for Challenged Equestrians ↗
  • Who funds Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Grey Sauble Conservation Authority ↗
  • Who funds FIRST UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Grey County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds LEITH SUMMER FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Owen Sound North Grey Public Library ↗
  • Who funds Bruce Grey Mentorship ↗
  • Who funds Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory ↗

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 Bruce G…The Eva Leflar Founda…Sun-Times - Cfos Chri…The Village at Blue M…The Markdale Rotary C…The James Goreski Pri…Southampton Rotary Cl…The Joan and Jim Patt…Rotary Club of Thornb…The Rotary Club of Po…Hepworth / Sauble Bea…Thornbury Pastoral Ch…
United Way of Bruce GreyON42.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Bruce Grey · The Eva Leflar Foundation · Sun-Times - Cfos Christmas Fund · The Village at Blue Mountain Foundation · The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trust · The James Goreski Private Foundation · Southampton Rotary Club Charitable Trust · The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundation · Rotary Club of Thornbury & Clarksburg Inc. Charitable Trust · The Rotary Club of Port Elgin Ontario · Hepworth / Sauble Beach Pastoral Charge · Thornbury Pastoral Charge

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 263 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 141036228:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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