Montreal, QC · Private foundation
McKEAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
The net income of the trust is to be paid out to various social and municipal organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$38k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY NB | C$18,900 |
| SAINT JOHN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | C$18,900 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER SAINT JOHN | C$12,600 |
| SALVATION ARMY | C$12,600 |
| MOUNT SAINT ALLISON UNIVERSITY | C$12,600 |
| THE NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM | C$12,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$8,400 |
| IMPERIAL THEATRE | C$8,400 |
| L'ARCHE SAINT JOHN INC | C$8,400 |
| TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH SAINT JOHN | C$6,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK | C$6,300 |
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k 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
- SJSAIN JOHN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2017–2024 · C$72k · revenue +15%
- CCCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY NB5× · 2017–2024 · C$72k · revenue +6%
- SASALVATION ARMY5× · 2017–2024 · C$57k · revenue +614%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER SAINT JOHN2× · 2022–2023 · C$13k
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.
Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…
The university's mission is to build on the strenght of queen's students faculty staff and alumini to be among the best of internationally known universities in canada recognized for: a) the exceptional quality of its undergraduate and…
Operation of a live multi-disciplinary performing arts centre with an emphasis on the promotion of artist development educational endeavours and cultural interest and advancement in the greater Moncton area. Activities include all types of…
Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.
Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche
The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…
Advancement of education degree and diploma programs. conduct research: natural science & engineering social sciences & humanities canadian foundation for innovation information technology heath petroleum. provide other program: cultural…
The SJRH Foundation raises funds to support excellence and innovation in healthcare through priority projects in support of the Saint John Regional Hospital as well as mental health projects in research education and community services in…
The company has a 30-year history of growing the theatre arts sector in southern new brunswick. the company has grown from producing a handful of theatre productions each year to a broad spectrum of opportunities for artist and audience…
Memorial university is an inclusive community dedicated to innovation and excellence in teaching research scholarships creative activity seervices and public engagement. memorial welcomes and supports students and scholars from all over…
Providing library services to the general public
College of the north atlantic (cna) provides courses and programs to meet training needs for individuals and the province of nl. cns is one of the largest post-secondary educational and skills training centers in atlantic canada offering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer. 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. 10 of the 14 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 SAIN JOHN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY NB ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT ALLISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER SAINT JOHN ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK ↗
- Who funds L'ARCHE SAINT JOHN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER SAINT JOHN ↗
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 Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.