Oak Lake, MB · Public foundation
Oak Lake & Area Foundation Inc.
The foundation works for the betterment of the community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$23k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAK LAKE CARE CENTRE | C$10,000 |
| OAK LAKE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | C$6,500 |
| OAK LAKE DISTRICT ARENA | C$5,000 |
| OAKVIEW SENIORS CLUB | C$3,000 |
| BORDER REGIONAL LIBRARY | C$2,500 |
| OAK LAKE HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE | C$2,000 |
| JOHNSTON CEMETERY | C$1,139 |
| OAK LAKE AND AREA MUSEUM | C$1,109 |
| OAK LAKE COTTAGE OWNERS ASSOCIATION | C$1,000 |
| OAK LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-S.P. GALAWAN SCHOLARSHIPS | C$500 |
| OAK LAKE 4-H CLUB - S.P. GALAWAN SCHOLARSHIPS | C$250 |
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 +48% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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
- OLOAK LAKE CARE CENTRE4× · 2018–2024 · C$35k · revenue +55%
- OLOAK LAKEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +420%
- OLOAK LAKE SAIL3× · 2017–2023 · C$8k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- RCROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCHone grant, 2023 · C$12k
- RORM OF WALLACE-WOODWORTH - KENTON ACTION COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · C$5k
- VAVIRDEN AREA WILDLIFE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -90% · 27% of their budget
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.
General cemetery maintenance mowing repairs to graves fences sites and roadways.
Maintaining Cemetery grass cutting trimming and pruning trees Ect. Out house maintenance Straighten head stones and grave markers. updating Information Center and Library at front gate
Management - general maintenance and beautification of the willow creek community cemetery
Levelling of graves and headstones installing concrete rows washroom (waiting for a quote)
Plot purchases and maintenance of grounds
Selling cemetery plots maintaining grounds
Water stewardship
Preseruation of mather-walls historical house
Maintenance of cemetery grounds
The foundation works for the betterment of the community. it acquires donations invests the funds and grants investment income to qualified donees in the oak lake and area community.
Library services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oak Lake Agricultural Society and the most unlike its peers is The Johnston Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 OAK LAKE CARE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds OAK LAKEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Oak Lake Curling Club ↗
- Who funds OAK LAKE & AREA MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OAK LAKE SAIL ↗
- Who funds CHERRY POINT PLAYGROUND COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds VIRDEN AREA WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds BORDER REGIONAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OAK LAKE GARDEN PARK ↗
- Who funds West Souris Riven Convonvation ↗
- Who funds OAK LAKE UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Font La Bosse Dwane Holland Scholarship ↗
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: The Virden Area Foundation Inc. · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.