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St Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

District School Board of Niagara

The dsbn is committed to student success by working together to inspire empower and support all learners to achieve their full portential

C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$85
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$755M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF NIAGRARAC$2,500
THE TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$285
BRANCH 393 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION SENIOR CITIZENS COMPLEXC$95
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION FORT ERIE ONT NO 71 BRANCH POPPY FUNDC$85
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION WELLAND (ONT NO. 04) BRANCH POPPYC$80
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION PORT COLBORNE (ONT. NO. 56) BRANCH PC$80
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 479 NIAGARA FALLS POPPY FUNDC$80
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$495k · 9 repeat orgsC$58k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

C$495k
C$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$365 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
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$10k · revenue +68%
  • KF
    KRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE NIAGARA
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$4k · revenue +73%
  • NC
    NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$1k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • NH
    NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue ×12
  • NC
    NIAGARA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$4k · revenue +116%
  • TG
    THE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -32%

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
Niagara College Foundation
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2
Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund

Supporting local charities within the regional municipality of niagara and surrounding area.

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3
The Kiwanis Foundation of Niagara Falls
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4
Niagara Military Museum

Operating a military museum in the former niagara falls armoury

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5
The Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education

To provide financial support through the awarding of scholarships to elementary and secondary catholic schools within the jurisdiction of the niagara catholic district school board

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6
Niagara Marco Polo Foundation

The foundation seeks to raise funds from the community at large to assist the community with playground projects.

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7
Royal Canadian Legion North Bay (Ont 23) Branch Poppy Fund

Veterans assistance student bursaries youth education and cadets

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8
Royal Canadian Legion St. Croix Branch Nb No. 9 Branch Poppy Fund
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9
Royal Canadian Legion North York Branch No 66

Annual poppy campaign resource raises funds that are available for donations to veterans in need of assistance veterans care facilities youth education military cadet unit programs and veteran related service. all uses of collected poppy…

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10
Information Niagara Inc.
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11
Royal Canadian Legion Rogersville Branch Nb No. 38 Branch Poppy Fund

Educational bursary

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12
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 296 Poppy Fund

To assist veterans having served or currently serving in canadian armed forces including dependants in need of assistance. to promote 'remembrance' & award bursaries to children grant & great grandchildren for post secondary education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Royal Canadian Legion Branch 479 Niagara Falls Poppy Fund and the most unlike its peers is Pathstone Mental Health. 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

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF NIAGARA — C$473,851 over 8y, 26% of budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNIAGARA REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR COMMITTEE — C$4,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetKRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE NIAGARA — C$4,150 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE INC. — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION PORT COLBORNE (ONT.NO.56) BRANCH... — C$440 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION FORT ERIE ONT NO 71 BRANCH POPPY FUND — C$340 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANCH 393 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION SENIOR CITIZENS COMPLEX — C$255 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 479 NIAGARA FALLS POPPY FUND — C$160 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION THOROLD (ONTARIO NO. 017) BRANCH — C$120 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION WELLAND (ONT NO. 04) BRANCH POPPY — C$80 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Ontario Paper Tho…United Way NiagaraCanadian Federation o…Niagara Region Police…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Ctfs Employees' Chari…John Deere Foundation…Wise Guys Charity FundMy Tribute Gift Found…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Abundance Canada
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 · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · United Way Niagara · Canadian Federation of University Women - St Catharines Charitable Fund · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · John Deere Foundation of Canada · Wise Guys Charity Fund · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Abundance Canada

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 17 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 2024-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 872113139:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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