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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

Pieczonka Family Foundation

The primarily focus of the foundation is financial support of the arts both visual and performing.

C$8k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$8,133
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$384
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BURLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$8,133
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.9M · 9 repeat orgsC$26k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

C$2.9M
C$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+107%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • BC
    BURLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$2.8M · revenue +48%
  • SO
    Symphony on the Bay
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$38k · revenue +33%
  • MU
    McMaster University
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$30k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • BP
    Burlington Performing Arts
    one grant, 2018 · C$8k
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Centre Hamiltongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$8k · revenue +107%
  • HC
    HAMILTON CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS - DANCE THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +310%

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
Hamilton Music Festival
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2
Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
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3
Bravo Niagara! Festival of the Arts

Bravo Niagara! presents concerts featuring Canadian and international artists in various venues and public spaces throughout the Niagara region including Niagara-on-the-Lake and St. Catharines. The programming is supported by 15 community…

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4
The Academy Concert Series
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5
Brant Music Festival

Host an annual judicated music fesstival for students studying voice piano and /or stings. classes also include school choirs bands and instrumental ensemles. qualifying students were awarded trophies and scholarships to promote continued…

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6
Hamilton Music Collective

Music education providing instruments and teaching to local elementary schools

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7
Hamilton Academy of Performing Arts

Performing arts school training n dance drama vocal music for professional careers in the arts while pproviding academics for elementary and secondary school students. drama performances full ballets including an annual nutcracker along…

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8
Niagara Concerts
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9
Brandon Chamber Players Inc

Premier classical music concert series

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10
The Niagara Symphony Association

Orchestra concerts summer music camp for multiple students trio and quartet performances in schools and the community outdoor concert performances

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11
Durham Chamber Orchestra Foundation

Music Performance Opportunities fostering musicianship in a positive and supportive environment Concert preparation and performance

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12
Kingston Symphony Association

The Kingston Symphony Association performed orchestral concerts both in person and online for the enjoyment by and enrichment of residents in Kingston and the surrounding region. The Kingston Symphony presented education and outreach…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Hamilton Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Mcmaster University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBURLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$2,751,556 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSymphony on the Bay — C$37,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetMcMaster University — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Philharmonic Orchestra — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN ONTARIO LYRIC OPERA — C$17,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetBROTT MUSIC FESTIVALS — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBURLINGTON PERFORMING ARTS — C$15,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGood Shepherd Centre Hamilton — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS - DANCE THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCulture for Kids — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBURLINGTON NEW MILLENIAL ORCHESTRA — C$3,300 over 2y, 94% 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.

Incite Foundation for…Burlington Community …Hamilton Community Fo…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Incite Foundation for the ArtsON12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Incite Foundation for the Arts · Burlington Community Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · 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.

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 13 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 2020-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 880166319:2020-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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