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St Thomas, ON · Public foundation

Elgin-St. Thomas Community Foundation

ELGIN-ST.

C$776k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k56 grants · C$133k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$225k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$417k
C$2,100
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST THOMAS ELGIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,200
ELGIN RESIDENTIAL HOSPICEC$101,016
YMCA ST THOMAS - ELGINC$59,300
MUNICIPALITY OF CENTRAL ELGINC$56,976
STEAM EDUCATION CENTREC$42,000
CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF ST THOMASC$38,500
NORTH AMERICA RAILWAY HALL OF FAMEC$20,833
BOOTS ON THE GROUND PEER SUPPORT FOR FIRST RESPONDERSC$17,005
VICTIM SERVICES ELGINC$16,500
V-EH! VETERANS & EVERYDAY HEROES (#IVEGOTYOURBACK911)C$15,000
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERSC$13,500
ELGIN-ST THOMAS YOUTH EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING CENTREC$12,916
THAMES TALBOT LAND TRUSTC$12,800
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$12,800
ELGIN COUNTY RAILWAY MUSEUMC$12,385
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.7M · 97 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
59

Total granted

C$5.7M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

94%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$94k 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

  • ER
    ELGIN RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +108% · 56% of their budget
  • YS
    YMCA ST THOMAS - ELGIN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$442k · revenue +188%
  • LH
    LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$302k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • CO
    COPORATION OF THE CITY OF ST THOMAS
    one grant, 2020 · C$866k
  • FC
    FANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +80%
  • HA
    HOLY ANGELS' PARISH
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -15%

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
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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2
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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3
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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4
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

Central lake ontario conservation authority's mission is to work towards the awareness understanding wise use and enhancement of our watershed resources for the benefit of the natural environment in partnership with our municipalities and…

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5
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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6
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority

We achieve our goals through myriad programs which take a holistic ecosystem approach. The UTRCA's 'ends' are to: protect life and property from flood and erosion protect and improve water quality preserve and manage natural areas provide…

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7
Tuff Therapeutic Riding Foundation

The mission of ttrf is to promote the mental health of youth at risk in ontario by providing a structured therapeutic riding program.

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8
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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9
Toronto Wildlife Centre

As the busiest wildlife centre in the country every day communities rely on Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) for help. Staffed and equipped specially for wildlife medicine TWC's wildlife emergency hospital is the only one of its kind in the…

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10
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…

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11
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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12
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwestern Ontario and the most unlike its peers is The Caring Cupboard. 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

147 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. 147 of the 166 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/147
Grantees still filing
94/147
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 budgetELGIN RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE — C$1,331,016 over 5y, 56% of budgetSTEAM EDUCATION CENTRE — C$481,400 over 7y, 25% of budgetYMCA ST THOMAS - ELGIN — C$442,372 over 8y, 14% of budgetST THOMAS ELGIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$318,800 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$301,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICA RAILWAY HALL OF FAME — C$245,559 over 6y, 41% of budgetELGIN COUNTY RAILWAY MUSEUM — C$223,693 over 8y, 16% of budgetBIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS — C$126,852 over 7y, 15% of budgetFRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES — C$98,206 over 5y, 13% of budgetST. THOMAS-ELGIN PUBLIC ART CENTRE — C$90,608 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetST. THOMAS-ELGIN FOOD BANK — C$88,085 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF ST THOMAS-ELGIN — C$87,493 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELGIN-ST THOMAS YOUTH EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$85,811 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetPEARCE WILLIAMS UNITED CHURCH — C$81,211 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetST.THOMAS ELGIN SECOND STAGE HOUSING — C$75,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$57,478 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST — C$57,478 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBOOTS ON THE GROUND PEER SUPPORT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS — C$57,005 over 5y, 35% of budgetVON MIDDLESEX-ELGIN — C$57,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetKETTLE CREEK CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$55,011 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOLY ANGELS' PARISH — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEIGHBOURHOOD OUTREACH FOR KIDS (ELGIN) — C$36,650 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE INN — C$36,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetST THOMAS ELGIN CHRISTMAS CARE — C$35,450 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA — C$34,439 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$28,739 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADA — C$28,739 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$28,739 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL AIDE OF ST THOMAS — C$25,612 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$25,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SERVICES ELGIN COUNTY — C$25,148 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINDWELL — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELGIN THEATRE GUILD — C$25,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES ELGIN — C$23,730 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetJA SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$22,950 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$20,068 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL — C$17,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION IN CANADA — C$16,091 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGACY PLACE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCATFISH CREEK CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHRIST ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$13,639 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCAN PRAXIS EAL — C$13,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$12,887 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$12,650 over 6y, 88% of budgetFOREST CLIFF CAMP INC. — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS SHOPPE — C$11,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetPKD FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$11,100 over 6y, 0.7% 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 ELGIN RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds STEAM EDUCATION CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds YMCA ST THOMAS - ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS ELGIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICA RAILWAY HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds ELGIN COUNTY RAILWAY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ST. THOMAS-ELGIN PUBLIC ART CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ST. THOMAS-ELGIN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF ST THOMAS-ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds ELGIN-ST THOMAS YOUTH EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds PEARCE WILLIAMS UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds ST.THOMAS ELGIN SECOND STAGE HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOOTS ON THE GROUND PEER SUPPORT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS ↗
  • Who funds VON MIDDLESEX-ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds KETTLE CREEK CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds FANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLY ANGELS' PARISH ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOURHOOD OUTREACH FOR KIDS (ELGIN) ↗
  • Who funds THE INN ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS ELGIN CHRISTMAS CARE ↗
  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL AIDE OF ST THOMAS ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SERVICES ELGIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds INDWELL ↗
  • Who funds ELGIN THEATRE GUILD ↗
  • Who funds VICTIM SERVICES ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds JA SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO ↗

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 Elgin Midd…Don and Hazel William…London Community Foun…Westminster College F…Mowbray and Doris Sif…The Walter J Blackbur…The Lawson FoundationThames Valley School …The Forever Legacy Fo…Aylmer Area Community…St Andrew's United Ch…The Roman Catholic Ep…
United Way Elgin MiddlesexON30.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Elgin Middlesex · Don and Hazel Williams Foundation · London Community Foundation · Westminster College Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · The Walter J Blackburn Foundation · The Lawson Foundation · Thames Valley School District · The Forever Legacy Foundation · Aylmer Area Community Foundation · St Andrew's United Church · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontario

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 166 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 865337109:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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