Oakville, ON · Private foundation
J.R. Armstrong Family Foundation
Support of research in Chemistry and Physics at the University of New Brunswick via the David M Armstrong Doctoral Fellowship.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$1k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of New Brunswick | C$25,000 |
| Hospice Niagara | C$22,763 |
| Georgian Bay Land Trust | C$1,000 |
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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
- PFPathstone Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · C$57k · revenue +68%
- NHNiagara Health Foundation3× · 2018–2022 · C$52k · revenue ×16
- CRCancer Research Society2× · 2021–2022 · C$10k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CSCave Sprngs Camp Inc.graduatedone grant, 2020 · C$60k · revenue +163%
- UOUniversity of New Brunswickone grant, 2018 · C$46k · revenue +22%
- UOUniversity of New Brunswickone grant, 2017 · C$46k
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 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…
Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…
The foundation provides support programs and services for people and their families living with cancer. the foundation provides opportunities for the development of self-help skills leading to an enhanced quality of life. the foundation…
The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…
We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…
The charity funded various health care research projects.
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
Onf is a funding agency to support research projects relating to neurotrauma injuries.
Land review and securement science and stewardship work towards acquiring environmentally significant lands and agricultural lands for public interests and benefit while providing leadership in sustainable land stewardship of environmental…
The foundation's purpose is to fund and promote scientific research into or related to the cause and cure of multiple sclerosis
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…
Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cave Springs Camp Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.