Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation

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Kenora, ON · Public foundation

Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation

Q: How much did Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation grant in FY2024?

Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation reported 36 grants totaling C$664,816 in its FY2024 T3010 return.

Q: Where is Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation based?

Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation is based in KENORA, ON.

The Community Foundation is dedicated to help improve community living and the quality of life for citizens and visitors to Kenora and the Lake of the Woods Region.

C$665k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

Regions reached

C$74k

Largest

01What you fundRead

02Your edgeRead

03Your fieldRead

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under C$10k16 grants · C$66k
C$10k–50k16 grants · C$342k
C$50k–250k4 grants · C$257k

C$13,000

Median grant

Regions reached

C$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE MUSE - LAKE OF THE WOODS MUSEUM	C$74,131
KEEWATIN-PATRICIA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD	C$65,977
FIREFLY	C$61,090
WAASWGIIZHIG NANAADAWE'IYEWIGAMING	C$55,688
NORTHWESTERN HEALTH UNIT	C$45,873
TOWNSHIP OF SIOUX NARROW-NESTOR FALLS	C$43,878
CITY OF KENORA	C$26,628
KACL	C$24,470
KENORA LAKE OF THE WOODS REGIONAL COMMUNITY	C$22,830
KNOX UNITED CHURCH	C$21,000
DISTRICT OF KENORA HOME FOR THE AGED	C$20,711
KENORA CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD	C$19,000
WOMEN'S SHELTER SAAKAATE HOUSE	C$17,830
GREY BRUCE ABORIGINAL QIMMQ TEAM	C$17,500
KENORA PUBLIC LIBRARY	C$17,470

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

C$3.4M · 42 repeat orgsC$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

C$3.4M

C$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+30%

Still filing today

90%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$118k went to new ones.

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

LO
Lake of the Woods Museum
8× · 2017–2024 · C$652k · revenue +130%
F
FIREFLY
8× · 2017–2024 · C$424k · revenue +55%
NF
Ne-Chee Friendship Centre
5× · 2017–2021 · C$181k · revenue +50%

Funded once

CO
City of Kenora Municpality
one grant, 2018 · C$44k
MW
MA'MO'WEH WII'SOO'KA'TIWIN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · C$22k
IW
IGGY'S WILDLIFE REHAB CENTRE
one grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue -78% · 78% of their budget

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.

Kenora District Festival of the Arts

Th ekdfa provides opportunities for students of multiple disciplines such as instruments vocal music speech arts visual arts & dance. participants receive a written adjudication.

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Kelsey Trail Regional Health Authority

Kelsey Trail Regional Health Authority provides acute-care, long term care, home care, primary health care, emergency response services, health promotion, addictions & mental health services and community rehabilitation services.

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William W. Creighton Youth Services

William w. creighton youth services operates two out-of-home care facilities within ontario’s youth justice system located in kenora and thunder bay. these facilities provide a range of services aimed at supporting high-risk youth. in the…

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Women's Resources of Kawartha Lakes

We provide emergency crisis and short term supportive counselling information and referral services and practical assistance to woman and children. we provide emergecny shleter and affordable short and long term housing to women and…

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Kekinan Centre Inc.

Provision of safe affordable housing to aboriginal elders in an environment where cultural and traditional values are accepted.

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Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

Central lake ontario conservation authority's mission is to work towards the awareness understanding wise use and enhancement of our watershed resources for the benefit of the natural environment in partnership with our municipalities and…

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Keewaytinook Okimakanak Community Initiatives

Keewaytinook okimakanak community initiatives promotes health in the keewaytinook okimakanak first nation communities by establishing programs that educate counsel and provide support to those affected by disease illness and/or health…

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Kawartha Wildlife Centre

Main program is to rescue rehabilitate and release ontario wildlife that has been injured orphaned or sick while working to educate the public about wildlife and conservation issues. this is completed through the use of a rented facility…

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Kehilla Residential Programme

Facilitation of low cost housing for seniors and low income families. provision of management and programming assistance for certain social housing projects. lease of residential units subleased on an affordable basis

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Kenogami and District Volunteer Fire Brigade

To provide fire protection and suppression services rescue services and to provide and maintain community meeting and service spaces.

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Kawartha Region Conservation Authority

Kawartha conservation is a watershed-based non-profit organization established in 1979 by the municipalities within our watershed under the ontario conservation authorities act. we are one of 36 conservation authorities operating in…

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Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre

The organization provides support services for victims of sexual violence. services include a 24 hour crisis line individual and group counselling outreach counselling accompaniment and advocacy support for family partners and friends of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kenora Fellowship Centre and the most unlike its peers is Pellatt United Firefighters. 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

58 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. 58 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/58

Grantees still filing

44/58

Grew since you first funded

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.

Lake of the Woods Chapel (The United Church of Canada) (Sioux Narrows Ontario)ON11.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lake of the Woods Chapel (The United Church of Canada) (Sioux Narrows Ontario) · The Way Christian Fellowship Inc. · Red Lake Mennonite Church · United Way of Thunder Bay · Alan and Doreen Thompson Charitable Foundation Inc. · The Douglas Family Foundation · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · The Winnipeg Foundation · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Community Foundations of Canada · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes

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.

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