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Thunder Bay, ON · Private foundation

John Andrews Foundation

Payments made to qualified donees with a major emphasis on projects and programs in the areas of education health care social welfare and the arts especially in the thunder bay region.

C$436k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$119k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$84k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$84k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$269k
C$6,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERYC$118,526
THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERC$100,000
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITYC$50,000
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARC$43,550
LAKE OF THE WOOD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
ST ANDREWS DEW DROP INNC$15,000
UNDERGOUND GYM & YOUTH CENTERC$10,200
NORTH OF SUPERIOR HEALTHCARE-MCCAUSLANDC$9,000
NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINEC$8,000
SALVATION ARMYC$7,000
FAYE PETERSON TRANSITION HOUSEC$6,600
GEORGE JEFFREY CHILDREN CENTREC$6,000
ST JOHN AMBULANCEC$6,000
THUNDER BAY P.R.O. KIDSC$6,000
THUNDER BAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$6,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 37 repeat orgsC$331k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
14

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

62%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • TB
    THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$661k · revenue +282%
  • TB
    THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$589k · revenue +11%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$162k · revenue +462%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONFEDERATION COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$125k
  • TB
    Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k
  • MG
    MANITOUWADGE GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · C$32k · revenue +6%

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
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Specialized and general hospital based health care for the people of Northwestern Ontario. Providing educational opportunities to students of the Northern School of Medicine in our roll as a teaching hospital.

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2
Community Safety Initiatives Thunder Bay
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3
Thunder Bay Community Foundation

Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community

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4
Thunder Bay Food Bank Inc

Food distribution service to those who can't adequately provide for their own nutritional needs

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5
Leadership Thunder Bay

Leadership thunder bay is an organization which operates a program aimed at creating networks of diverse leaders who explore issues facing thunder bay and strengthening the skills to inspire and engage others in building a strong and…

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6
Thunder Bay Police Association
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7
Thunder Bay Therapeutic Riding Association

To provide therapy to individuals who have a physical emotional or mental disability by giving them the opportunity to ride horses with the assistance of volunteers.

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8
The Thunder Bay Public Library Board

Public Library that provides programming and library collections to the public. Provides meeting spaces for community members. Holds community events.

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9
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium Foundation
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10
Lakehead Transportation Museum Society

Collecting preserving and displaying transportation artifacts relating to thunder bay and area.

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11
Community Living Thunder Bay Foundation

To promote support and protect the status and interest of people with a developmental disability and the general well-being and welfare of such persons; To solicit receive and hold contributions of money and property; To raise and hold…

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12
Community Living Thunder Bay

Community Living Thunder Bay provides services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lakehead University. 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

32 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. 32 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
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 budgetTHUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — C$661,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY ART GALLERY — C$589,026 over 8y, 14% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$162,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFAYE PETERSON TRANSITION HOUSE — C$71,550 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetST ANDREWS DEW DROP INN — C$64,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$58,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN ONTAR — C$53,550 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNorthern Ontario School of Medicine — C$48,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERGOUND GYM & YOUTH CENTER — C$45,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMcCausland Hospital — C$40,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOUWADGE GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$32,480 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHUNDER BAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$31,150 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE JEFFREY CHILDREN CENTRE — C$31,150 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetST JOHN AMBULANCE — C$26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWilson Memorial General Hospital — C$24,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetPRECIOUS BUNDLES — C$21,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING ATIKOKAN — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARJORIE HOUSE — C$16,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHUNDER BAY SYMPHNY ORCHESTRA — C$12,100 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHING ASSIST — C$12,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHUNDER BAY HISTORICAL MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAKEHEAD DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$9,150 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHOSPICE NORTHWEST — C$7,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian National Institute for the Blind — C$6,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake of the Woods Museum — C$6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY LITERACY GROUP — C$5,550 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS — C$5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWesway — C$3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISTHMUS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds FAYE PETERSON TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREWS DEW DROP INN ↗
  • Who funds LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN ONTAR ↗
  • Who funds Northern Ontario School of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNDERGOUND GYM & YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds McCausland Hospital ↗
  • Who funds MANITOUWADGE GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE JEFFREY CHILDREN CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN AMBULANCE ↗
  • Who funds Wilson Memorial General Hospital ↗
  • Who funds PRECIOUS BUNDLES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING ATIKOKAN ↗
  • Who funds MARJORIE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY SYMPHNY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CLOTHING ASSIST ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LAKEHEAD DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Canadian National Institute for the Blind ↗
  • Who funds Lake of the Woods Museum ↗

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 Thunder…Thunder Bay Community…The Paterson Foundati…The Ukrainian Catholi…Hydro One Employees' …Church of the Holy Cr…Ontario Power Generat…First-Wesley United C…Christian Science Soc…Bowater Mill Employee…Calvin Presbyterian C…St Andrew's Presbyter…
United Way of Thunder BayON26.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Thunder Bay · Thunder Bay Community Foundation · The Paterson Foundation · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Church of the Holy Cross · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · First-Wesley United Church · Christian Science Society Thunder Bay Ontario Canada · Bowater Mill Employees' Charity Fund of Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. · Calvin Presbyterian Church · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church

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 53 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 118974807:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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