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Fergus, ON · Charitable organization

Melville United Church

Community Garden Choir Band UCW Kid's Church and Youth Groups Quilters Bible Study Friday Morning Coffee weekly worship services Social Justice initiatives: worship services around mental health truth and reconciliation with Indigenous people human trafficking book studies black history month

C$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$16k
C$4,739
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$510k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The United Church of Canada - Mission and Service FundC$16,244
Centre Wellington Food BankC$4,739
Wellington Pregnancy Care CentreC$200
Canadian Mental Health Association - Grove Hub FergusC$125
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$88k · 5 repeat orgsC$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

C$88k
C$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • MS
    Mission & Service Gifts
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$76k · revenue +28%
  • CW
    Centre Wellington Food Bank
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$9k · revenue +103%
  • CM
    Canadian Mental Health Association - Grove Hub Fergus
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UC
    United Church of Canada Mission Service
    one grant, 2017 · C$23k
  • MS
    Mission & Service The United Church of Canada
    one grant, 2019 · C$19k
  • MA
    Mission and Service Gifts
    one grant, 2021 · C$18k

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
United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington

United way guelph wellington dufferin strives to meet existing and emerging social needs in order in improve lives and build community. we do this by facilitating continued engagement on community issues through ongoing communications with…

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2
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch

Mental health and addictions programs for adults and children by way of individual and group sessions with access to integrated primary care and housing support services. directly support individuals currently involved with services with…

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4
Ywca Hamilton

Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…

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5
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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6
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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7
Westview Centre 4 Women

Offers essential services to those struggling with homelessness incomes below the poverty line social isolation addiction and mental health issues. We provide a community of services including hot meals clothing food pantry laundry…

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8
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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9
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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10
Thompson Crisis Centre Inc.

The purpose of the organization is to eradicate family violence in society by providing families and communities with tools to enhance growing encouraging violence free living and promote a healthier tomorrow. the thompson crisis centre…

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11
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

The food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. these organizations…

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12
Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre

We provide primary health care and health promotion programs. we provide counselling education and outreach. we provide support groups for isolated individuals. we provide emergency food access. we hold life skills and personal development…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellington Pregnancy Care Centre and the most unlike its peers is Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et De L'avc Du Canada. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
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 budgetMission & Service Gifts — C$76,017 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentre Wellington Food Bank — C$8,869 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association - Grove Hub Fergus — C$1,575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellington Pregnancy Care Centre — C$700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt James Anglican Church — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Resource Centre of North & Centre Wellington — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuelph-Wellington Women in Crisis — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Youth for Christ — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation — C$100 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 Fergus-Elora Rota…Belwood Pastoral Char…The Synod of the Dioc…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Fergus-Elora Rotary FoundationON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fergus-Elora Rotary Foundation · Belwood Pastoral Charge · The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.

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 13 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107689879:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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