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East St Paul, MB · Private foundation

John & Bonnie Buhler Foundation Inc.

Donations to qualified donees.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$850k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$36k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$340k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$2.5M
C$400,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West Central Women's Resource CentreC$850,000
Bruce Oake Memorial FundC$640,000
Siloam MissionC$600,000
Miserecordia HospitalC$400,000
David Foster FoundationC$240,000
Canadian Museum of Human RightsC$100,000
Children's Hospital Foundation of ManitobaC$25,000
Bonvoy'sC$11,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 14 repeat orgsC$755k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

C$15M
C$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$636k 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

  • BO
    Bruce Oake Memorial Fund
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$4.1M · revenue +199% · 37% of their budget
  • SM
    Siloam Mission
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$3.5M · revenue +56%
  • MH
    Misericordia Hospital
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +55% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • WM
    Winnipeg Mennonite Elementary School
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +6%
  • SB
    ST. BONIFACE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +109%
  • MM
    MANITOBA MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -53%

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
The Manitoba Museum Foundation Incorporated/Fondation Du Musee Du Manitoba Incorporee

The manitoba museum foundation incorporated supports the long term objectives of the manitoba museum. it funds research activities special projects collections acquisitions and exhibit renewals at the manitoba museum.

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2
Manitoba Theatre Centre Foundation

To assist and promote the operations of the royal manitoba theatre centre inc.

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3
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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4
The Women's Health Research Foundation of Canada Inc.

The foundation awarded four scholarships to full-time graduate students doing women's health research projects at the university of manitoba. the foundation also awarded four prizes at the manitoba schools science symposium and one prize…

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5
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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6
Diabetes Foundation of Manitoba Inc.

research

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7
Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.

Winnipeg arts council inc. funds and supports artists and arts organizations. we initiate and promote development of the arts for the people of winnipeg.

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8
Manitoba Underground Opera Inc.

To present new adventurous productions of classic operatic repertoire in unique locations featuring the opera stars of tomorrow with an emphasis on Manitoban talent.

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9
University Womens Club of Winnipeg Scholarship Fund

Advancing education by providing scholarships and bursaries to students attending post secondary institutions and performing arts school in the province of manitoba

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10
CancerCare Manitoba

Cancercare manitoba maintains and co-ordinates a province-wide program for cancer prevention diagnosis treatment education and research.

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11
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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12
The Manitoba Museum

The manitoba museum is the province's largest not-for-profit heritage and science centre. it is renowned for its vivid portrayal of manitoba's rich and colourful history planetarium shows and science gallery exhibits. the museum encourages…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bytown Brigantine Inc.. 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

29 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. 29 of the 30 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBruce Oake Memorial Fund — C$4,126,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetSiloam Mission — C$3,500,900 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetMUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$1,451,149 over 6y, 14% of budgetMisericordia Hospital — C$1,274,176 over 5y, 40% of budgetWest Central Women's Resource Centre — C$1,250,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba — C$1,000,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Arts Center — C$812,379 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDavid Foster Foundation — C$560,667 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMMG LLB CA — C$400,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Upper Fort Garry — C$251,236 over 3y, 31% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes — C$73,056 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWinnipeg Mennonite Elementary School — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST. BONIFACE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$16,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetManitoba Opera — C$16,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHnatyshyn Foundation Inc. — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBonvoy's — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRainbow Resource Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDouglas Mennointe Church — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIDEA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$9,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBYTOWN BRIGANTINE INC. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMood Disorders — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN AM CLINIC — C$200 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 Gail Asper Family…The Asper FoundationThe Winnipeg Foundati…Giftpact Foundation I…The Jewish Foundation…The Pollard Family Fo…All Charities CampaignPrice Family Foundati…Thomas Sill Foundatio…The Ernst Hansch Foun…Wellington West Found…Wcpd Foundation
The Gail Asper Family Foundation IncMB21× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · The Asper Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · All Charities Campaign · Price Family Foundation Inc. · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · The Ernst Hansch Foundation Inc. · Wellington West Foundation Inc. · Wcpd 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 30 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 885326009:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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