Winnipeg, MB · Public foundation
Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Inc
Provide grants to qualified donees supporting choral music throughout the province of manitoba through prudent investing of donor funds
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k19 grants · C$47k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANITOBA CHORAL ASSOCIATION | C$29,875 |
| CANZONA | C$7,500 |
| DEAD OF WINTER | C$7,000 |
| WINNIPEG SINGERS | C$5,250 |
| POLYCORO | C$5,000 |
| BRANDON UNIVERSITY | C$4,000 |
| RIVER CITY SOUND | C$3,100 |
| PRAIRIE VOICES INC | C$3,000 |
| ST JAMES ASSINIBOIA DIVISIONAL CHOIR | C$2,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$2,000 |
| CENTRAL MANITOBA CHORAL ASSOCIATION | C$1,875 |
| RAINBOW HARMONY PROJECT | C$1,500 |
| WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | C$1,338 |
| ESPIRIT DE CHOEUR | C$1,125 |
| KODALY ASSOCIATION | C$750 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$14k went to new ones.
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
- MCMANITOBA CHORAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · C$47k · revenue +26%
- MCMANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA4× · 2017–2023 · C$25k · revenue +7%
- CCANZONA5× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue ×25
Funded once
- MCMANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRAone grant, 2022 · C$14k
- RHRAINBOW HARMONY PROJECTone grant, 2021 · C$5k
- WPWinnipeg Philharmonic Choirone grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Community based choir with singers from across southern manitoba. choral year generally consists weekly practices for 6 months. as of 2023 two concerts per year.
WMYC provides a high quality choral experience for Western Manitoba area high school students generally ages 15-18. Only highly recommended conductors are invited to lead the group. An auditioned choir was brought together for several…
Performance of classical + modern choral masterpieces
Promotion and presentation of choral music
The canadian chamber choir is a national choral ensemble that provides a professional choral environment for canadian singers conductors and composers. the group performs new and exciting choral works by canadian composers and facilitate…
Conert series in the city of winnipeg; young artist program
Presenting choral concerts
Provides opportunities for talented young canadians about to embark on international careers. awards scholarships to promising young manitoba musicians
Choral performances
Provincial youth choirs music library choral website choral workshops recognition awards music camps
Musical concerts and recording for production of cd's
Music education and performance for children/youth and adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manitoba Choral Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brandon University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
27 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. 27 of the 53 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MANITOBA CHORAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CANZONA ↗
- Who funds WINNIPEG SINGERS ↗
- Who funds DEAD OF WINTER ↗
- Who funds O. Koshetz Choir ↗
- Who funds Winnipeg Boys' Choir ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MANITOBA YOUTH CHOIR ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY SOUND ↗
- Who funds WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds POLYCORO ↗
- Who funds Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir ↗
- Who funds ESPIRIT DE CHOEUR ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HARMONY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BRANDON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINNIPEG YOUTH CHORUS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES ASSINIBOIA DIVISIONAL CHOIR ↗
- Who funds GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Winnipeg Foundation · Winnipeg Arts Council Inc. · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Manitoba Arts Council · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc. · All Charities Campaign · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · The Moe Levin Family Foundation - · The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba
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.