Winnipeg, MB · Private foundation
Ken & Helen Penner Family Foundation Inc.
The foundation continues to support all manner of qualified donees.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$31k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAZA REFUGEE PROJECT | C$19,000 |
| LCC INTERNATIONAL FUND INC | C$16,000 |
| RIVER EAST MB CHURCH | C$8,500 |
| ECOLE DE THEOLOGIE EVANGELIQUE DU QUEBEC | C$5,000 |
| MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE | C$4,400 |
| IDE CANADA | C$3,500 |
| MENNONITE CENTRE UKRAINE | C$2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,100 |
| CANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY | C$2,000 |
| GLOBAL PEACE HEROES | C$1,000 |
| MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES | C$1,000 |
| INNER CITY YOUTH ALIVE | 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$21k 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
- LILCC International Fund Inc8× · 2017–2024 · C$149k · revenue +194%
- MCMENNONITE CENTRE UKRAINE4× · 2021–2024 · C$7k · revenue +125%
- ADACCOUNTABLE DEVELOPMENT WORKS3× · 2020–2022 · C$6k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CACAMP ARNESone grant, 2022 · C$5k
- SMSILOAM MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +25%
- OCOpen Circleone grant, 2018 · C$2k
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.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
MEDA Impact Investments combines innovative financial and technical expertise to build and enhance sustainable agri-food systems that provide decent work for people living in poverty with a focus on systematically marginalized communities…
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Manitoba supports the international relief development and peace…
Conducted programs in the middle east africa asia carribean eastern europe canada in health and social servicces education micro-economic sustainable development disaster relief and refugee assistance
In canada we are involved in evangelism church planting community programs and publication of a denominational magazine. outside canada we are involved in evangelism church planting community development leadership training and other…
Conducts missionary work in the developing countries
Please see our website and within the tab 'Learn More' there is a section entitled 'What We Do'. In every country where MCC works we partner with local churches and organizations with similar values. Together we work in three areas:…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Teaching students about missions-method history and missiology. service to mission - related organizations in advisory roles training practical activities in missionary work. supply missions with education related resources. addressing…
Imha provides medical supplies training & support materials & programs (including educational) in india democratic republic of congo & burundi through relationships with in-country organizations as detailed in schedule 2
Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing food and other necessities of life including access to education for children of families who are poor of low income or in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Christian Mission Services and the most unlike its peers is Eden Mental Health Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 37 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.
- Who funds LCC International Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Ecole de Theologie Evangelique du Quebec ↗
- Who funds RIVER EAST MB CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Canadian Mennonite University ↗
- Who funds IDE Canada ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PEACE HEROES ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE CENTRE UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABLE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ↗
- Who funds Accountable development works ↗
- Who funds SILOAM MISSION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MISSION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LIFELIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DONWOOD MANOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE HERITAGE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION MICHAELLE JEAN ↗
- Who funds EDEN MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds WINNIPEG ART GALLERY ↗
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: The Bill and Margaret Fast Family Foundation Inc. · De Fehr Foundation Inc. · Abundance Canada · Lawton Partners Charitable Giving Foundation Inc. · Portage Avenue Church · F & E Strumpski Foundation · The Buller Foundation Inc. · Reimer Express Foundation Inc. · Manitoba Council for International Co-Operation Inc. · The Winnipeg Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)
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.