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Merlin, ON · Charitable organization

Merlin United Church

Support missions & services and world development with the united church of canada christion outreach in our community help local charities such as food bank medical equipment for the disabled and releif for victims of fire devastation and hold weekly workshop services pastoral care and bible studies

C$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENESSERIE CANPC$5,150
HARVEST HANDSC$500
SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLDC$400
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9k · 5 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

C$9k
C$960

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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

  • CH
    Chatham Hope Haven
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$1k · revenue +442%
  • BM
    BLENHEIM MERLIN SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$910 · revenue +143%
  • CO
    CHATHAM OUTREACH FOR HUNGER
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$585 · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • LO
    LOADS OF LOVE (CHILDREN OF HOPE)
    one grant, 2022 · C$370 · revenue -26%
  • BM
    BAC MISSIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$315 · revenue +41%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$255 · revenue +86%

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
Chatham-Kent Student Breakfast Programs

Our program is to assist in starting and maintaining student nutrition program in the schools in chatham-kent. we garner funds to enable programs to function and purchase food and equipment. we assist in arranging for volunteers and…

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2
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

The organization provide a full range of hospital services including 24 hour emergency service.

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3
Canadian Food for Children (Chatham-Kent)

Revenue used to purchase food clothing school items small toys and tools. volunteers between 12 to 20 three times a week for hours 9 to 12 pack purchased and donated items such as clothes kitchen items medical items candles and personal…

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4
FreeHelpCK

The purpose of the organization is to help eliminate poverty in the chatham-kent community and provide assistance for everyone regardless of race ethnicity creed gender orientation or background. programs operated by the charity include:…

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5
Child Hunger Brantford
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6
Chatham-Kent Children's Safety Village

Children's education programs on safety matters - building small village to support children's summer camps

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7
Harvest House Community Outreach Centre Windsor

Provide overnight accommodation for homeless. drop-in center providing meals for those in need and for shut-ins. food bank outlet

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8
The Cornerstone

Minister is chaplin for chatham-kent police provides services 3 times a week. clothing and food for street people/homeless

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9
Mental Health Network of Chatham Kent

Mental health peer support and self help programs family support programs client advocacy community education meal programs

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10
Rebuild Hope

We continued to provide shelter clothing food and educational support for children living in poverty in Kenya. Children continued to access resources and mentorship support to enable them to succeed and excel in their education. Families…

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11
Kensington and Area Food Bank

Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)

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12
Chatham - Kent Health Alliance Helping Hands Auxiliary

The auxilliary operates a retail gift shop in the chatham site of the chatham-kent health alliance. the net proceeds are used to support the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham Outreach for Hunger Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Blenheim and Merlin School Breakfast Program. 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

11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENESSERIE CANP — C$5,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHATHAM-KENT CHILDREN SERVICES — C$3,370 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD — C$2,710 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChatham Hope Haven — C$1,280 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBLENHEIM MERLIN SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM — C$910 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCHATHAM OUTREACH FOR HUNGER — C$585 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HANDS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOADS OF LOVE (CHILDREN OF HOPE) — C$370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAC MISSIONS — C$315 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE-SWD-LONDON — C$20 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.

United Way of Chatham…Chatham Kent Communit…Victoria Avenue Unite…St Andrew's United Ch…Vancouver FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…My Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Chatham-KentON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Chatham-Kent · Chatham Kent Community Foundation · Victoria Avenue United Church · St Andrew's United Church · Vancouver Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 11 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 119038743:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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