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Kingston, ON · Private foundation

Gill Ratcliffe Foundation

The foundation was established to receive gifts bequests funds and property and to hold invest administer and distribute funds and property to other qualified organizations under the provision of the income tax act.

C$707k
Granted FY2023
68
Grants FY2023
3
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k52 grants · C$108k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$229k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$120k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$250k
C$2,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$250,000
SHALLWAY YOUTH IN CHORUSC$70,000
RAREC$50,000
SHOREFASTC$40,000
THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND CONSTABULARY HISTORICALC$40,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SKINGSTON FOUDNATIONC$25,000
NEWFOUNDLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$20,000
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITYC$15,000
MARINE MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES AT KINGSTONC$15,000
KINGSTON UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIPC$14,000
PERSISTENCE THEATRE COMPANYC$10,000
KINGSTON HOME BASE NON-PROFIT HOUSING INCC$10,000
HORIZONS OF FRIENDSHIPC$10,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALC$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION KINGSTON & AREAC$10,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.4M · 83 repeat orgsC$222k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
34

Total granted

C$5.4M
C$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

92%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$92k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23
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

  • RO
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$800k · revenue +45%
  • SN
    SHALLAWAY NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR YOUTH IN CHORUS INC.
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$565k · revenue +21%
  • R
    RARE
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$202k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA of Northeast Avalongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +150%
  • SN
    Seniors NLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +152%
  • NR
    NEWFOUNDLAND RAILWAY COSTAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k

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
Kingston Regional Arts Council

Kingston arts council provides leadership to a broad community in the kingston region to encourage excellence in the arts through advocacy promotion and arts experiences. kingston arts council seeks to engage and inspire the community in…

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2
Stephenville Festival Inc.

The stephenville theater festival is committed to the production of diverse professional theatre that engages enlightens and entertains audiences providing residents and visitors to the southwest region of newfoundland and labrador access…

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3
Kingston Artists' Association Incorporated

The kingston artists association features contemporary works by local national and international artists while providing services and resources to the local artistic community. the association is an artist run organization serving regional…

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4
New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Inc/Fondation Des Arts Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc

Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.

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5
Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada

Established in 1952 the Stratford Festival is one of North America’s longest running arts organizations. Running in repertory from April to October with the works of Shakespeare at the core of its artistic mandate it seeks to bring…

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6
Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Researching exhibitions and programming

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7
The Eastern Front Theatre Society

We produce and present theatrical productions of the work of Atlantic Canadian theatre artists. We provide training and development assistance to emerging designers. We carry out research and create information to improve accessibility in…

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8
Kings Theatre Foundation

Manage/invest and grow a capital endowment fund the income from which shall be disbursed annualy to support and sustain King's Theatre a multi-disciplinary arts and culture venue located in Annapolis Royal NS and operated by King's Theatre…

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9
King's Point Heritage Society Inc.

Operating a Whale Pavilion displaying a 50' humpback whale skeleton. Operating a Heritage House displaying local history and antiques. These projects will enhance tourism in the town of King's Point NL.

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10
Fund for the Arts On the North Shore

Provided a program which recognized the artistic contributions and accomplishments of North Shore artists. Awarded grants totaling $5 000 to emerging artists.

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11
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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12
Reelout Arts Project Inc.

The primary objective of reelout is to provide high-quality thoughtful entertaining queer independent film and video to the kingston community. the organization runs an annual film festival to promote these objectives.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Thousand Islands Boat Museum. 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

111 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. 111 of the 127 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/111
Grantees still filing
76/111
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 budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,345,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$800,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSHALLAWAY NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR YOUTH IN CHORUS INC. — C$565,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetThe Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland & Labrador — C$425,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetRARE — C$201,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTEAM BROKEN EARTH — C$153,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetKINGSTON FAMILY YMCA — C$136,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Winnipeg Foundation — C$116,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrowing the Voices Festival — C$95,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetNSO — C$88,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetKINGSTON UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP — C$84,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetOpera on the Avalon — C$80,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMemorial University of Newfoundland — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHorizions of Friendship — C$70,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEBASEHOUSING — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmnesty International — C$60,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR KINGSTON & AREA — C$57,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAWN HOUSE — C$49,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND CONSTABULARY HISTORICAL — C$43,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetSHOREFAST — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT REGIMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL CARI — C$35,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNEWFOUNDLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$34,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMARINE MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES AT KINGSTON — C$31,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLION HEARTS INC. — C$31,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — C$30,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Governing Council of the University of Toronto — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget1000 ISLAND BOAT MUSEUM — C$26,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWINTERSET IN SUMMER INCORPORATED — C$26,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetYMCA of Northeast Avalon — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — C$23,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — C$22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINATO — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN MISSION FOOD BANK — C$20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKINGSTON SYMPHONY — C$19,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SKINGSTON FOUDNATION — C$16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE STREET UNITED CHURCH — C$15,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE & NORTH DUMFRIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSeniors NL — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF KINDSTON — C$11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEWMAN SOUND — C$11,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCNIB — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITARIAN CONGREGATION OF TORONTO — C$10,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPERSISTENCE THEATRE COMPANY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetStella Burry Foundation — C$10,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKITTIWAKE DANCE THEATRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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 Newfoun…Redpoll FoundationCommunity Foundation …Vocm CaresThe Davies Charitable…ClanMac FoundationUnited Way of Kingsto…Crossroads United Chu…Anna & Edward C. Chur…The Congregation of t…The Perlin Family Tru…Patten Family Foundat…
United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.NL26.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. · Redpoll Foundation · Community Foundation for Kingston & Area · Vocm Cares · The Davies Charitable Foundation Inc · ClanMac Foundation · United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington · Crossroads United Church · Anna & Edward C. Churchill Foundation · The Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation · The Perlin Family Trust · Patten Family Foundation Inc.

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 127 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 816750277:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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