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Saint John, NB · Private foundation

Isles Foundation Incorporated

The foundation provides financial support to qualified donees principally in the areas of education health history and culture and community projects.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$673k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$45k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$70k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$391k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$923k
C$10,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MASS GENERAL CANADA INC.C$672,700
KIDS HELP PHONEC$250,000
LAHEY CLINIC CANADIAN FOUNDATIONC$170,463
SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$62,500
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$54,500
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD - MAGDALEN COLLEGEC$54,000
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$50,000
BEAVERBROOK ART GALLERYC$25,000
HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.C$15,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SAINT JOHN INC.C$10,000
HOSPICE OF GREATER SAINT JOHNC$10,000
DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEC$8,478
SHINING HORIZONS THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION INC.C$7,500
YARMOUTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.7M · 28 repeat orgsC$3.4M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

C$5.7M
C$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.2M 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

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +104%
  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$1.1M · revenue +25%
  • UO
    University of Toronto
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$650k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SH
    SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1.1M · revenue +62%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$689k · revenue -5%
  • TO
    TOWN OF ST. STEPHEN-CONSERVE THE COURT
    one grant, 2021 · C$250k

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
Saint John Community Health Support Foundation Inc.
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2
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation

Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…

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3
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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4
The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation

The Foundation raises funds to meet the capital (equipment and infrastructure) research educational and programming needs of the Janeway Children's Hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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5
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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6
Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation

The Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation solicits maintains and grants funds to enhance and/or improve the facilities and services of the Joseph Brant Hospital.

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7
Fort St.John Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for donations for equipment and education for the fort st john hospital health centre

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8
Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.

The QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation continues to raise and grant funds primarily for the benefit of the QEII Health Sciences Centre (part of Nova Scotia Health Authority) to support patient care research and education. The…

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9
Saint John Vocational/Harbour View High Alumni Scholarship Fund

Providing scholarships awards and student assistance to students of harbour view high school in saint john nb.

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10
Northern Cancer Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north (hsn) and health sciences north research institute (hsnri). amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment…

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11
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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12
South Huron Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for improvement of health care services in the area served by south huron hospital

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Fernhill Cemetery Company. 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

47 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. 47 of the 57 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
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 budgetSAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,269,300 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,080,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,062,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$688,835 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MASS GENERAL CANADA INC. — C$672,700 over 1y, 35% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$650,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$448,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION — C$350,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$266,300 over 5y, 17% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNO BEACH CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC CANADIAN FOUNDATION — C$170,463 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCITIZENS FOR FORT LATOUR — C$160,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetHolland College Foundation — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFERNHILL CEMETARY COMPANY — C$100,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBUSINESS COMMUNITY ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE — C$75,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHospice of Greater Saint John — C$65,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEEN RESOURCE CENTRE — C$55,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOPHIA RECOVER CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetThe New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation Inc. — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGAIRDNER — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSYMPHONY NEW BRUNSWICK FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBGC OF SAINT JOHN INC. — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDennis Knibb Scholarship Trust fund — C$25,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetYARMOUTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROTHESAY NETHERWOOD SCHOOL — C$24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FUND INC. — C$24,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY GROUND SEARH & RESCUE TEAM INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetOPERATION FEED SAINT JOHN INC. — C$10,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSaint John Theatre Company — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOceana Canada — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT JOHN COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE — C$7,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHESTIA HOUSE INC. — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHINING HORIZONS THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION INC. — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCANADA GAMES AQUATIC CENTER — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIRAMICHI SALMON ASSOCIATION INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMANI CANADA — C$4,072 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY SAINT JOHN KINGS AND CHARLOTTE — C$278 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.

The Greater Saint Joh…Kiwanis Charities of …Canada Donates Inc.Macmurray Foundation …The Sir James Dunn Fo…United Way Serving Sa…Crabtree Foundation F…The Windsor FoundationHarrison McCain Found…New Brunswick Protest…The McCain FoundationThe Pannell Family Fo…
The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint JohnNB18× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · Kiwanis Charities of Saint John · Canada Donates Inc. · Macmurray Foundation Inc. · The Sir James Dunn Foundation Inc. · United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc. · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · The Windsor Foundation · Harrison McCain Foundation · New Brunswick Protestant Orphans Home · The McCain Foundation · The Pannell Family Foundation

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 57 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 822635470:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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