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St Catharines, ON · Public foundation

Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara

Offering grant programs: environmental grants childrens summer camp grants community grants and youth grants.

C$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
579
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 579 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k500 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$10k–50k62 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$50k–250k17 grants · C$1.3M
C$1,774
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION - SOUTH NIAGARA SITEC$200,000
MAYHOLME FOUNDATIONC$139,167
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$100,000
VICTIM SERVICES NIAGARAC$87,000
MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICEC$82,652
KIDS CARE ONCOLOGY CENTRAL WEST ONTARIOC$75,000
2022 CANADA GAMES SPORT LEGACY INC.C$63,013
HOSPICE NIAGARAC$62,500
STS. CYRIL & METHODIUS CHURCHC$56,163
UKRAINIAN CANADIAN SOCIAL SERVICES (ST. CATHARINES) INC.C$56,163
UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS NIAGARA BRANCH FUNDC$56,163
ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCHC$56,163
NATIVITY OF THE HOLY MOTHER OF GODC$56,163
NIAGARA REGION SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTREC$55,264
COMMUNITY CARE OF WEST NIAGARAC$50,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 297 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

297 repeat relationships — 225 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

297
129

Total granted

C$20M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

88%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$309k 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

  • NH
    NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$933k · revenue ×17
  • MF
    MAYHOLME FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$900k · revenue +720% · 66% of their budget
  • MH
    MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$879k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE
    one grant, 2020 · C$250k
  • NC
    NIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE SCHOOL AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2019 · C$78k
  • PC
    PANCREATIC CANCER CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +15%

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
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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2
Niagara Concerts
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3
The Niagara On the Lake Conservancy Society

Public education regarding the built and natural heritage of niagara-on-the-lake as the 1st capital of canada and the homes and landscapes.

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4
Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc.

Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc. provides community based rehabilitation services to persons living with the affects of an acquired brain injury. Services include supportive housing friendly visiting personal care life skills…

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5
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire De Niagara

Offering grant programs: environmental grants childrens summer camp grants community grants and youth grants. grants are awarded for equipment special projects and seed funding. the community grants program does not provide operating…

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6
Justice Niagara
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7
John Howard Society of Niagara

The society operates as an affiliate of the john howard society of onatrio. ongoing programs as well as new programs provide counselling assesment employment supervision and assistance for youth and adults for the purpose of crime…

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8
Down Syndrome Niagara
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9
The Kiwanis Foundation of Niagara Falls
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10
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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11
The Niagara Escarpment Foundation

Continued to educate the public by creating greater understanding and awareness about the natural and cultural history of the Niagara Escarpment for the benefit of the public and the importance of the UNESCO Biosphere and conduct research…

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12
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region and the most unlike its peers is Fonds Foyer Richelieu Welland. 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

372 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. 372 of the 455 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
353/372
Grantees still filing
263/372
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$933,069 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetMAYHOLME FOUNDATION — C$899,608 over 8y, 66% of budgetMCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE — C$878,578 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetHOSPICE NIAGARA — C$707,069 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE ST. CATHARINES AND THOROLD — C$504,289 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$441,120 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$440,994 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetUKRAINIAN CANADIAN SOCIAL SERVICES (ST. CATHARINES) INC. — C$440,994 over 8y, 82% of budgetNATIVITY OF THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD — C$440,994 over 8y, 31% of budgetSTS. CYRIL & METHODIUS CHURCH — C$440,994 over 8y, 18% of budgetArt & Val Fleming Fund — C$405,417 over 8y, 25% of budgetHeart Niagara Inc. — C$393,592 over 8y, 12% of budgetYWCA NIAGARA REGION — C$357,877 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetUKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST — C$327,304 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetNIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$315,679 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNIAGARA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — C$306,695 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCohen Family Fund — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE OF WEST NIAGARA — C$295,071 over 8y, 14% of budgetHotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Foun — C$271,636 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetNiagara Region Sexual Assault Centre ( CARSA Inc. ) — C$248,564 over 8y, 14% of budgetWOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA INC. (BIRCHWAY NIAGARA) — C$238,492 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetGillian's Place — C$238,441 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPATHSTONE FOUNDATION — C$230,226 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDavid S. Howes Fund - Flow Through — C$215,191 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNIAGARA RESOURCE SERVICE FOR YOUTH (RAFT) — C$195,071 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF NIAGARA — C$185,037 over 8y, 13% of budgetHEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE — C$184,695 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF RESOURCES FOR TEENS (FORT) — C$178,350 over 7y, 20% of budgetBethlehem Housing and Support Services — C$169,764 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCHORUS NIAGARA — C$158,629 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetNiagara College — C$154,233 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetNIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES — C$150,720 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetDavid S. Howes Fund - Flow Through — C$144,600 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE - FINANCIAL AID — C$136,694 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGUARTION — C$134,316 over 8y, 21% of budgetShaw Festival Theatre Foundation, Canada — C$125,003 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY NIAGARA — C$114,037 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS NIAGARA BRANCH FUND — C$113,690 over 2y, 85% of budgetBENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF GRIMSBY AND DISTRICT — C$112,768 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA of Niagara — C$109,913 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMarsh Family Fund — C$103,461 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLICOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$100,833 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFonds Foyer Richelieu — C$100,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NIAGARA — C$96,150 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWellspring Niagara Cancer Support Foundation — C$96,027 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$94,916 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA — C$94,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE NIAGARA — C$92,766 over 8y, 4.5% 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.

  • Who funds NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYHOLME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE NIAGARA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE ST. CATHARINES AND THOROLD ↗
  • Who funds BROCK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINIAN CANADIAN SOCIAL SERVICES (ST. CATHARINES) INC. ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY OF THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD ↗
  • Who funds STS. CYRIL & METHODIUS CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Art & Val Fleming Fund ↗
  • Who funds Heart Niagara Inc. ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NIAGARA REGION ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Cohen Family Fund ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE OF WEST NIAGARA ↗
  • Who funds Hotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Foun ↗
  • Who funds Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre ( CARSA Inc. ) ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA INC. (BIRCHWAY NIAGARA) ↗
  • Who funds Gillian's Place ↗
  • Who funds PATHSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds David S. Howes Fund - Flow Through ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA RESOURCE SERVICE FOR YOUTH (RAFT) ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF NIAGARA ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF RESOURCES FOR TEENS (FORT) ↗
  • Who funds Bethlehem Housing and Support Services ↗
  • Who funds CHORUS NIAGARA ↗
  • Who funds Niagara College ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds David S. Howes Fund - Flow Through ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA COLLEGE - FINANCIAL AID ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGUARTION ↗
  • Who funds Shaw Festival Theatre Foundation, Canada ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY NIAGARA ↗

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 NiagaraWise Guys Charity FundThe Ontario Paper Tho…Ctfs Employees' Chari…The Branscombe Family…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Niagara Region Police…Rotary Club of St. Ca…United Way of Niagara…United Way of South N…St. Andrew's United C…Barterpay It Forward …
United Way NiagaraON55.9× affinity112 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Rotary Club of St. Catharines Charitable Trust · United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie · United Way of South Niagara · St. Andrew's United Church · Barterpay It Forward 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 455 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 867105322:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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