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Thunder Bay, ON · Charitable organization

First-Wesley United Church

Acts as a local congregation of the United Church of Canada providing weekly worship services for members and adherents as well as church school and youth programming.

C$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$22k
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$22k
C$425
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$440k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA - MISSION AND SERVICEC$21,830
THUNDER BAY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC.C$1,122
THUNDER BAY FOOD BANK INC.C$466
SHKODAY ABMOJIIWAK OBIMIWEDOONC$425
HAQBITAT FOR HUMANITYC$200
THE UNDERGROUND GYM AND YOUTH CENTRE INC.C$200
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATIONC$50
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$196k · 10 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

C$196k
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$425 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

  • UC
    United Church of Canada - Mission and Service Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$177k · revenue +22%
  • TB
    Thunder Bay Shelter House
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7k · revenue +5%
  • TB
    Thunder Bay Church Camps
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$4k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • FG
    FOOD GRAINS BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +34%
  • GP
    GRACE PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$95 · revenue +41%

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
Community Safety Initiatives Thunder Bay
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2
Thunder Bay Police Association
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3
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium Foundation
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4
Thunder Bay and District Humane Society

To provide shelter and care for abounded animals to locate proper homes for abandoned animals to educate the public on animal welfare

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5
The Thunder Bay Public Library Board

Public Library that provides programming and library collections to the public. Provides meeting spaces for community members. Holds community events.

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6
The Gathering Place Thunder Bay

Food bank Free clothing depot community outreach women/men's group

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7
Thunder Bay Community Foundation

Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community

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8
North Bay Food Bank Inc.

Assist low income families and individuals with food and other supplies.

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9
Native People of Thunder Bay Development Corp

Purchase maintain operate non-profit housing for low-end income native families and elders rent-geared-to- income rents to keep tenants and families in our housing program for native people off-reserve

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10
Thunder Bay Therapeutic Riding Association

To provide therapy to individuals who have a physical emotional or mental disability by giving them the opportunity to ride horses with the assistance of volunteers.

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11
Community Living Thunder Bay Foundation

To promote support and protect the status and interest of people with a developmental disability and the general well-being and welfare of such persons; To solicit receive and hold contributions of money and property; To raise and hold…

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12
United Way of Thunder Bay

United way provides funding to several charitable organizations that provide human care services in these areas of service: counselling poverty & hunger children and youth services volunteer support rehabilitation/recreation crisis &…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thunder Bay Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United Church of Canada. 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

13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
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 budgetUnited Church of Canada - Mission and Service Fund — C$177,339 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThunder Bay Shelter House — C$7,498 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThunder Bay Church Camps — C$3,710 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHUNDER BAY FOOD BANK — C$3,223 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFAYE PETERSON HOME (CRISIS HOME INC.) — C$2,338 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD GRAINS BANK — C$1,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION — C$578 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAQBITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHKODAY ABMOJIIWAK OBIMIWEDOON — C$425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND GYM AND YOUTH CENTRE INC. — C$375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRegional Food Distribution Association — C$235 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThunder Bay Boys and Girls Club — C$125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE — C$95 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 Thunder…The Ukrainian Catholi…Thunder Bay Community…Hydro One Employees' …St Andrew's Presbyter…Church of the Holy Cr…Lakehead District Sch…John Andrews Foundati…Ontario Power Generat…Calvin Presbyterian C…Redwood Park ChurchThe Roman Catholic Bi…
United Way of Thunder BayON13.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Thunder Bay · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Thunder Bay Community Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church · Church of the Holy Cross · Lakehead District School Board Employees Charity Trust Fund · John Andrews Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Calvin Presbyterian Church · Redwood Park Church · The Roman Catholic Bishop of Thunder Bay

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 13 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 christianity.

Source object 108197575:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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