Chatham, ON · Charitable organization
Howard Mutual Foundation
To operate a community health care centre by providing medical health and support services for the general public.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGETOWN AND AREA ADULT ACTIVITY CENTRE | C$5,000 |
| MARY WEBB CENTRE | C$2,500 |
| LOWER THAMES CONSERVATION AUTHORITY | C$1,500 |
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 +56% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- CHCHATHAM-KENT HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · C$45k · revenue +38%
- RARIDGETOWN AND AREA ADULT ACTIVITY CENTRE5× · 2018–2022 · C$34k · revenue +60%
- GCGREENWOOD CEMETARY3× · 2017–2019 · C$14k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CHCHATHAM-KENT HOSPICEone grant, 2018 · C$8k · revenue +17%
- RKRidgetown Kiwanis Club Foundationone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -94%
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.
The organization provide a full range of hospital services including 24 hour emergency service.
A rural acute care facility providing emergency acute inpatient and complex care as well as outpatient laboratory and diagnostic services
To recognize a person or persons by induction into the kent county agricultural hall of fame. for demonstrating unselfish achievement within the realm of agriculture & service to the rural community of chatham-kent and/or beyond.
Funding other charities that provide for community needs. types of charities supported during the year include education health arts & culture recreation social services heritage and the environment
Donating to local hospital
The auxilliary operates a retail gift shop in the chatham site of the chatham-kent health alliance. the net proceeds are used to support the community.
• continuing to advocate for further tril development and increased awareness of trail accessibility • continuing to work in conjuctioon with the chatham kent trails committee and chatham - kent council
To distribute commencement awards to graduating students
Providing grants and awards to students of the lambton kent district school board
Maintaining the windham cemetery
Fundraising to support local charities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ridgetown District Agricultural Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 CHATHAM-KENT HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIDGETOWN AND AREA ADULT ACTIVITY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD CEMETARY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN`S TREATMENT CENTRE FOUNDATION OF CHATHAM-KENT ↗
- Who funds RYAL CANADIAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM-KENT HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds RIDGETOWN DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ridgetown Kiwanis Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIGHGATE AGRICULTURE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARY WEBB CENTRE ↗
- Who funds LOWER THAMES CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗
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: Chatham Kent Community Foundation · Mount Zion Presbyterian Church · McGeachy Charitable Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.