Milestone, SK · Public foundation
Milestone Donors Choice Combined Appeal
In october 20230 letters + forms are mailed out annoucing the appeal requesting donations to our local affinity credit union.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILESTONE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | C$1,545 |
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | C$925 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$700 |
| HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION | C$600 |
| MILESTONE SOO LINE AMBULANCE | C$590 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$450 |
| CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCATION | C$375 |
| RED CROSS | C$300 |
| REGINA FOOD BANK | C$250 |
| SALVATION ARMY | C$250 |
| CNIB | C$250 |
| CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - REGINA | C$250 |
| HOSPITALS OF REGINA | C$250 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$215 |
| MILESTONE LIBRARY | C$195 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 54% of grant dollars (C$22k). The 46% that went abroad (C$19k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 46% of all-years giving (C$19k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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
- TAThe Arthritis Society4× · 2017–2020 · C$2k · revenue +5%
- HOHospitals of Regina Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · C$1k · revenue +78%
- CCCanadian Cancer Society4× · 2017–2020 · C$1k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MMMrs Mouse Preschoolone grant, 2017 · C$4k
- MSMilestone Swimming Pool & Cemetaryone grant, 2018 · C$1k
- SDSask. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Inc.graduatedone grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +50%
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.
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We provide information and support to Scleroderma patients and their families. We promote awareness of Scleroderma to Doctors and the general public. We raise money for medical research of Scleroderma. We provide money for Scleroderma…
1. support the development of tools and resources for clinicians patients and families 2. hub for training and networking in stroke recovery 3. multi-site trials in stroke recovery
Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…
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Funding of diabetes research
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Societe De L'arthrite Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Hope's Home Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
40 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. 40 of the 79 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 The Arthritis Society ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Foundation of Sask. ↗
- Who funds Hospitals of Regina Foundation ↗
- Who funds Canadian Cancer Society ↗
- Who funds Canadian Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Institute for the Blind ↗
- Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
- Who funds Stars ↗
- Who funds HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds STARS ↗
- Who funds Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan ↗
- Who funds Crohn's and Colitis Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TERRY FOX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGINA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds Souls Harbour Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds ALS Lou Gherig Disease ↗
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: United Way of Regina · Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp. · United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Sasktel Telcare Employees Charity Trust · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Carlyle and District Donors Choice · Access Communications Children's Fund Inc. · Elbow & Community Donors Choice Organization · The Maryfield and District Donor's Choice · Gainsborough and District Donor's Choice · Gull Lake & District Donors Choice Appeal · Duval Annual Combined Appeal
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.