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Saskatoon, SK · Private foundation

Dennis & Shell Balon Foundation Inc.

We continue to make financial donations to qualified donees.

C$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boreal Healthcare Foundation Inc.C$1,000
Native Coordinating CouncilC$1,000
YWCA Saskatoon Inc.C$1,000
Saskatoon Food Bank IncorporatedC$1,000
Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.C$1,000
St Paul's Hospital Foundation IncC$1,000
Royal University Hospital Foundation Inc.C$1,000
Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation Inc.C$1,000
Haven Family Connections IncorporatedC$1,000
Prince Albert Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimaC$500
Saskatoon Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsC$500
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9k · 6 repeat orgsC$5k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

C$9k
C$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • NC
    Native Coordinating Council
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +3%
  • RU
    Royal University Hospital Foundation Inc.
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +107%
  • JP
    Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HF
    Haven Family Connections Incorporated
    one grant, 2023 · C$500 · revenue +11%

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
Hospitals of Regina Foundation Inc.

Hospitals of Regina Foundation Inc. provides funding through donations to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and other agencies to improve healthcare for the residents of Southern Saskatchewan. The donations assist these agencies in…

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2
Saskatoon Regional Health Authority

We operate a health delivery system providing a full range of health care services to residents of the Saskatoon Health Region and other residents of Saskatchewan. Services are provided in hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary…

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3
South Country Health Care Foundation Inc

South country health care foundation raises money through donations and fund raising and subsequently grants funds to various capital projects in the south country area of saskatchewan on basis of needs.

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4
Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital Foundation

The foundation focuses on raising funds to provide equipment and facilities to elevate care to a higher level for all fort saskatchewan and area residents.

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5
Saskatchewan Health Authority

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is responsible for the delivery of high quality and timely health care for all the people across the province. The SHA has approximately 40 000 employees and 2 770 physicians who provide services to…

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6
Saskatchewan Indigenous Community Foundation
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7
Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation Inc

Grants of funds are provided to the saskatchewan health authority to be applied to the purchase of specific medical capital equipment research education and patient care enhancements for the battlefords union hospital battlefords region…

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8
Quill Plains Health Care Foundation Inc.

To solicit and apply funds and resources to enhance the provision of care acting in concert with saskatoon health region authority.

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9
St. Paul's Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Saskatoon
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10
Sask. Valley Hospital Foundation Inc.

To raise funds for a new hospital to replace the current hospital that is over 75 years old. this new hospital will have a 24/7 emergency department and operate as a full services health care facility. it will also be an educational…

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11
Saskatchewan Heart Centre Inc.
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12
Prairie Hospice Society Inc

Establish and run a community hospice care program in saskatoon

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Paul's Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prince Albert Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc.. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNative Coordinating Council — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Paul's Hospital Foundation Inc — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal University Hospital Foundation Inc. — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatoon Food Bank Incorporated — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc. — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatoon Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatoon City Hospital Foundation Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Saskatoon Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoreal Healthcare Foundation Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaven Family Connections Incorporated — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrince Albert Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anima — C$500 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 Saskato…Saskatoon Community F…Our Lady of the Prair…Lily Street FoundationMaunders McNeil Found…Kinsmen Foundation In…Raymond James Canada …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…Private Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …
United Way of Saskatoon and AreaSK11.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Maunders McNeil Foundation Inc. · Kinsmen Foundation Inc. · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation

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 12 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 2024-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 741591507:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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