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Bracebridge, ON · Public foundation

Muskoka Community Foundation

Promoting community awareness leadership and vitality through facilitating individual and group educational opportunities and discussion forums throughout the district of muskoka to help build and foster smart and caring communities.

C$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k47 grants · C$142k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$153k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIND AIDC$48,499
HOSPICE MUSKOKAC$32,349
MANNA FOOD BANK OF BRACEBRIDGEC$19,500
GEORGIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYC$14,500
TRILLIUM LAKELANDS DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$14,006
GRAVENHURST AGAINST POVERTYC$12,250
TOWNSHIP OF LAKE OF BAYSC$12,000
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MUSKOKAC$9,849
HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$7,800
LAKE OF BAYS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONC$7,500
COMMUNITY YWCA OF MUSKOKAC$7,300
MUSKOKA VICTIM SERVICESC$7,000
DORSET COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FUNDC$6,000
HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$5,018
NORTHERN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYC$5,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 67 repeat orgsC$281k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
45

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

97%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$43k 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

  • MA
    MIND AID
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$192k · revenue +99% · 65% of their budget
  • CY
    COMMUNITY YWCA OF MUSKOKA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$104k · revenue +58%
  • HM
    HOSPICE MUSKOKA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +871%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MUSKOKA WATERSHED
    one grant, 2023 · C$29k · revenue -55%
  • EF
    ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF SIMCOE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · C$26k · revenue -19%
  • VV
    VICTORY VALLEY FARM
    one grant, 2023 · C$24k · revenue +14% · 42% of their budget

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
Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Bursary Fund

This fund solicts funds from individuals businesses organizations + provides financial assistance to graduates to help them with their education at a post secondary institution

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2
Muskoka Community Foundation

Promoting community awareness leadership and vitality through facilitating individual and group educational opportunities and discussion forums throughout the district of muskoka to help build and foster smart and caring communities.…

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3
Lakeland College

Lakeland college offers credit and non-credit educational programming in the areas of agricultural sciences apprenticeship and pre-employment trades business emergency services and public safety energy environmental sciences health and…

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4
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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5
The Mohawk College Foundation

The mohawk college foundation supports the mission of the mohawk college of applied arts and technology (mohawk college) by promoting interest and awareness of mohawk college in the community and acress the province. the foundation raises…

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6
Mount Allison University

Provides rigorous liberal arts education primarily to undergraduate students in a co-education intimate residential environment. provides scholarships bursaries and awards to students. please see www.mta.ca for a full description of the…

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7
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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8
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology

Seneca combines rigorous academics with practical training across a wide range of careers and professions- from health care technology and business to creative arts community services and arts and sciences. we prepare students for great…

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9
College of the North Atlantic

College of the north atlantic (cna) provides courses and programs to meet training needs for individuals and the province of nl. cns is one of the largest post-secondary educational and skills training centers in atlantic canada offering…

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10
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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11
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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12
Holland College

Holland college is a community college offering post-secondary education vocational programs upgrading and a variety of night and short courses. courses are offered within the following programs and centres: aerospace and industrial…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Education Trust Fund of Simcoe County/Muskoka and the most unlike its peers is Moosonee Puppy Rescue. 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

115 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. 115 of the 124 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
83/115
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIND AID — C$191,620 over 4y, 65% of budgetGRAVENHURST AGAINST POVERTY — C$107,947 over 3y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY YWCA OF MUSKOKA — C$103,650 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetHOSPICE MUSKOKA — C$84,949 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF GRAVENHURST CHRITABLE TRUST — C$80,400 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK OF BRACEBRIDGE — C$54,297 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHIGHLANDS YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$53,956 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetENLIVEN CANCER CARE — C$48,900 over 2y, 24% of budgetSIMCOE MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$48,400 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ONTARIO GATEWAY NORTH — C$48,150 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTRILLIUM LAKELANDS DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$47,478 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuskoka Victim Services — C$41,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSALVATION ARMY HUNTSVILLE — C$37,891 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$31,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MUSKOKA WATERSHED — C$29,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHuntsville Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$28,147 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL AND MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$26,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Muskoka — C$25,750 over 8y, 32% of budgetGEORGIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$25,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF SIMCOE COUNTY — C$25,520 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMuskoka Womens Advocacy Group — C$25,350 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$24,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY VALLEY FARM — C$24,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTRINITY UNITED CHURCH — C$23,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN MUSKOKA — C$22,500 over 5y, 65% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY — C$21,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuskoka Family Focus and Children's Place — C$21,020 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCANADORE COLLEGE — C$18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING PARRY SOUND — C$16,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Living South Muskoka — C$16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORILLIA SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANADORE COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgian Bay Biosphere Reserve — C$14,012 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHUMBER COLLEGE INSTITURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED — C$13,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRyde Community Coop — C$13,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMoosonee Puppy Rescue — C$12,697 over 1y, 22% of budgetUniversity of Waterloo — C$12,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Education Trust Fund of Simcoe County/Muskoka — C$11,780 over 3y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS — C$11,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MUSKOKA — C$10,849 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLake of Bays Anglican Parish — C$10,775 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetWest Muskoka Food Bank — C$10,775 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$10,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKOKA CONSERVANCY — C$10,200 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF MUSKOKA — C$10,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$8,700 over 2y, 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 Simcoe Mus…Rotary Club of Braceb…Cwb Welding FoundationWaterloo Region Commu…Niagara Community Fou…Toronto FoundationMen of Grandview Foun…Smart Serve OntarioThe Masonic Foundatio…Oakville Community Fo…Community Foundation …Hamilton Community Fo…
United Way Simcoe MuskokaON20× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Simcoe Muskoka · Rotary Club of Bracebridge Charitable Trust · Cwb Welding Foundation · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Toronto Foundation · Men of Grandview Foundation · Smart Serve Ontario · The Masonic Foundation of Ontario · Oakville Community Foundation · Community Foundation Grey Bruce · Hamilton Community Foundation

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 124 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 840597751:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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