Barrie, ON · Private foundation
Michelle McGowan Memorial Foundation
Provide funding to assist Canadian Registered Charitable Organizations whose focus is to relieve suffering provide comfort or need domestically and throughout the world; with particular emphasis on the needs of women.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hospice Simcoe | C$5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$3,000 |
| LIFEWATER CANADA | C$2,500 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$2,000 |
| ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY | C$2,000 |
| NIAGARA CHRISTIAN GLEANERS | C$1,500 |
| BURTON AVENUE UNITED CHURCH | C$600 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- HSHospice Simcoe5× · 2017–2021 · C$10k · revenue +66%
- LCLIFEWATER CANADA5× · 2017–2021 · C$9k · revenue +385%
- EFELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · C$5k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- GPGROVE PARK HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$500 · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
7 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. 7 of the 8 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.
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.
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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.