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Stratford, ON · Charitable organization

Optimist Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation

To establish maintain and/or preserve public amenities public recreational and atheltic facilities public community centres and events and public commmunity programs and services all for the purpose of benefitting local communities youth and the general public.

C$25k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$443k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
HURON-PERTH CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$3,000
AVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD TRUST FUNDC$3,000
PERTH COUNTY TRANSITION HOME FOR WOMENC$2,500
STRATFORD PERTH SHELTERLINKC$2,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$2,000
KIWANIS CLUB OF STRATFORDC$2,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$72k · 6 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

C$72k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
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

  • SG
    STRATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$40k · revenue +90%
  • AM
    AVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD TRUST FUND
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$9k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$6k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KIWANIS CLUB OF STRATFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PERTH-HURONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +116%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500 · revenue +42%

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
Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation

Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (Community Foundation) facilitates philanthropy and provides gifts and resources to community service organizations delivering vital programs and services to the residents in Stratford St.…

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2
Strait-Richmond Health Care Foundation

Purchase hospital equipment and fund programs.

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3
Stratford Perth Hospice Foundation

Stratford perth hospice foundation currently owns the building for hospice care avon maitland. they receive and maintain funds and cover the operational shortfalls of the hospice.

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4
The Stratford Public Library Foundation

The foundation assists the city of stratford's stratford public library in ensuring the highest possible quality of library services for the communities served by the stratford public library. stratford public library is an entity of the…

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5
Smiths Falls Community Hospital Foundation

We support the purchase of capital equipment and other health initiatives for the smiths falls site of the perth smiths falls district hospital and associated organizations promoting health care in the community

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6
Stratford Perth Heritage Foundation

1. Restoration renewal and maintenance of the Fryfogel Inn & Tavern. 2. Revitalization and maintenance of the Fryfogel Arboretum. 3. Public education related to the history of the Fryfogel Inn & Tavern.

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7
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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8
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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9
Sturgeon Community Hospital and Health Centre Foundation

The foundation solicits and recieves donations through fundraising activities to fund new technology medical and surgical equipment and healthcare programs to ensure the clients of the sturgeon community hospital continue to recieve high…

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10
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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11
South Huron Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for improvement of health care services in the area served by south huron hospital

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12
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Holding Foundation

Hold and maintain major capital assets for The Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada including but not limited to the Festival Theatre the Avon/Studio Theatre complex the Tom Patterson Theatre and the Brunswick Centre. To acquire and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kiwanis Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Knollcrest Lodge. 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

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 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD TRUST FUND — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$6,043 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD PERTH SHELTERLINK — C$6,022 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST. MICHAEL CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF STRATFORD — C$5,022 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPERTH COUNTY TRANSITION HOME FOR WOMEN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PERTH-HURON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD PERTH MUSEUM — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOLLCREST LODGE — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S OPTIMIST FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 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.

Stratford and Perth C…Tri-County Mennonite …Abundance CanadaTd Friends of the Env…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…My Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Stratford and Perth County Community FoundationON13.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation · Tri-County Mennonite Homes · Abundance Canada · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.

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 14 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 2023-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 759978711:2023-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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