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Elora, ON · Private foundation

Merlen Kropf Foundation

1.

C$35k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$351k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRE GREY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$25,000
GROVES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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$582k · 21 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
17

Total granted

C$582k
C$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

95%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • GM
    GROVES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$246k · revenue +21%
  • SA
    ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$112k · revenue +57%
  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$101k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k
  • GM
    GUELPH MEMORIAL HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +98%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY MENNONITE HOMES (NITHVIEW)graduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +27%

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.

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Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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2
Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationale

Health partners international canada (hpic) is the only charity in canada that holds a health canada establishment license and able to handle donated medicines. hpic works with a network of pharmaceutical non-government organizations…

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3
One Global (Canada)

Educate the public on issues of and relating to extreme poverty and preventable disease with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

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4
Hope for Health Canada
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5
Fh Canada

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…

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6
Medical Ministry International

Medical Ministry International has been providing spiritual and compassionate health care in this world of need. Medical Ministry International has made lasting impact in 41 countries from addressing medical and surgical needs of…

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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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9
Pih Partners in Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…

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10
Operation Eyesight Canada

Operation eyesight is an international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in vulnerable communities in south asia and africa. our country offices are located in india ghana kenya and zambia. we also have…

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11
Canadian Medical Foundation / Fondation MÉDicale Canadienne

1. disburse grants to various universities to aid medical students in financial need. 2. finance projects which have the objective of the improvement of medical services provided to the people of canada. 3. receive and maintain a donor…

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12
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oms International - Canada and the most unlike its peers is Le Programme De Portage Relatif a La Dependance De La Drogue. 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

35 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. 35 of the 38 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROVES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$246,425 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetST. ANDREW'S CHURCH — C$112,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$100,575 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRE GREY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS OF CANADA — C$11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE CANADA — C$7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$7,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY SHIPS OF CANADA — C$6,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN — C$5,533 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALLMAN CHAPEL — C$5,250 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetGUELPH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI COUNTY MENNONITE HOMES (NITHVIEW) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEERS — C$4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADA — C$4,600 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetPORTAGE ONTARIO — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN BIBLE SOCIETY — C$2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO CEREBRAL PALSY SPORTS ASSOCIATION — C$1,780 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING INTERNATIONAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE WORLD GLOBAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS — C$700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH MISSIONS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOSH ONTARIO — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMENNONITE RELIEF SALE — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUELPH FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION — C$125 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONE MISSION SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO MEN'S CENTRE — 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.

Abundance CanadaMy Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Abundance CanadaMB7.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abundance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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 38 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 861230316:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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