Port Colborne, ON · Private foundation
Jack A. Vanderlaan Foundation
The foundation is committed to supporting marginalized families in the niagara peninsula region of ontario.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k7 grants · C$10k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE NIAGARA | C$20,000 |
| 2ND PORT COLBORNE SCOUTING | C$4,000 |
| NIAGARA SAFETY VILLAGE | C$1,000 |
| HEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE | C$1,000 |
| FOOD4KIDS NIAGARA | C$1,000 |
| KRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE | C$1,000 |
| HORSE SENSE FOR KIDS | C$1,000 |
| QEH FOUNDATION | C$600 |
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 centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges
Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.
Ongoing programs the npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical jurisdiction
Therapeutic and recreational equestrian riding instruction for disabled persons day camp and nature studies youth internship programs farm animal therapy equine and agriculture education.
The npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical juridiction
Community preparedness cpr/aed training and placement echo sonography stress testing holter monitors and loop bllod pressure monitor healthy heart school programs including cpr/aed training family education and risk assessment health…
Programs are directed at children with autism children are taught horse skills including but not limited to grooming feeding haltering leading and ultimately riding a horse. children develop skills gain confidence and bond with an equine…
The boys and girls club of niagara foundation's purpose is to raise funds to support the programs of the boys and girls club of niagara.
Providing recreation playground and vacation camps to the community and others
Offering grant programs: environmental grants childrens summer camp grants community grants and youth grants. grants are awarded for equipment special projects and seed funding. the community grants program does not provide operating…
The foundation undertakes fundraising activities to raise money for various projects for the children's aid society of the niagara region operating as family and children's services niagara.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is FOOD4KIDS Niagara and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Forest Nature Experience. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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 HOSPICE NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds PATHSTONE FOUNDTION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES CHC SUPPORTS FUND ↗
- Who funds 2ND PORT COLBORNE SCOUTING ↗
- Who funds KRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds HORSE SENSE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA SAFETY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FOOD4KIDS NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds QEH FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way Niagara · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · The Branscombe Family Foundation · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto
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.