Gainsborough, SK · Public foundation
Gainsborough and District Donor's Choice
Provided a donor sheet to every household in our postal code.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF SASK. | C$955 |
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | C$919 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | C$619 |
| SCLERODERMA ASSOC. OF SASK | C$602 |
| BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$492 |
| THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY | C$354 |
| ALZHEIMER | C$334 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$310 |
| CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND | C$284 |
| CANADIAN DIABETES FOUNDATION | C$272 |
| SASK. ABILITIES COUNCIL | C$261 |
| KIDNEY FOUNDATION | C$255 |
| MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICES | C$241 |
| CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC. | C$236 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$236 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 80% of grant dollars (C$42k). The 20% that went abroad (C$11k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 20% of all-years giving (C$11k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$974 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
- TATHE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · C$3k · revenue +5%
- ASALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF SASKATCHEWAN6× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +51%
- CMCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC.6× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HSHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF SASK.one grant, 2022 · C$761
- MSMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · C$612
- SASCLERODERMA ASSOCIATION OF SASKone grant, 2022 · C$547
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.
To support families living with als by mobilizing a patient-led public movement to ensure swift and equitable access to promising therapies and clinical trials throughout canada and to ensure the federal and provincial governments increase…
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA (MDC) provides direct support to Canadians affected by Neuromuscular disorders that include: offering emotional support for adapting and coping to Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder or caring for an…
Assisting provincial Alzheimer Society (AS) organizations to provide information and educational materials to the public; Administering and funding the AS national peer-reviewed research grants and awards program; Creating public awareness…
Public awareness regarding lupus nationwide. providing a 1-1800 number for inquiries. providing lupus information resources and provincial contacts supporting lupus research.
Educational programs
Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…
Provide fellowships studentships and other awards for research on issues related to respiratory health as conducted through universities and other research facilities throughout Canada. Offer support to individuals with lung health issues…
We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…
We provide education and support for lupus patients. their families and friends. we develop public awareness initiatives regarding lupus. we provide educational materials and programs dealing with diagnosis treatements management of the…
Provide information and support to families and care-partners affected by psp msa and cbd. collaborate with healthcare professionals to increase awareness and improve treatment. fund research leveraging partnerships with other charitable…
In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…
The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Canada/SociÉTÉ Canadienne De La SclÉRose LatÉRale Amyotrophique and the most unlike its peers is The Allergy Wellness Awareness Research and Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 65 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 SCLERODERMA ASSOC. OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC. ↗
- Who funds BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds SASKABILITIES ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OSTEOPOROSIS CANADA ↗
- Who funds LUNG ASSOCIATION OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
- Who funds HUNGINGTON SOCIETY OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds JUVENILLE DIABETES INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN ALLERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALLERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUPUS SK SOCIETY INC. ↗
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: Edam and District Donors Choice Combined Appeal Committee · United Way of Regina · Elbow & Community Donors Choice Organization · Milestone Donors Choice Combined Appeal · Churchbridge and District Donors Choice · Lashburn & District Combined Appeal Donors Choice · Broadview and District Donor's Choice Appeal · Gull Lake & District Donors Choice Appeal · Carlyle and District Donors Choice · United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Lancer Portreeve and District Donors Choice · The Sisters of the Presentation
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.