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Saint John, NB · Private foundation

Ptarmigan Foundation Inc.

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or a part of the principal and income from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$465k
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
4
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$180k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$268k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHNC$61,300
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHNC$57,000
ROTHESAY NETHERWOOD SCHOOLC$50,000
IWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
NB MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCC$25,000
SOCIETY OF CANADIAN ARTISTSC$25,000
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITYC$25,000
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
UPEI ATLANTIC VETERINAY COLLEGE HOSPITALC$10,000
HOSPICE SOUTHEAST NEW BRUNSWICKC$10,000
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADAC$10,000
ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITYC$10,000
ACADIA UNIVERSITYC$10,000
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$10,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$950k · 11 repeat orgsC$405k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

C$950k
C$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$209k 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

  • RN
    Rothesay Netherwood School
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$350k · revenue +25%
  • AU
    ACADIA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$160k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHN
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$148k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MS
    Montcrest Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue +43%
  • PP
    Public Policy Forumgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +36%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER C.
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k

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
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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2
Cape Breton University

Advancement of education degree and diploma programs. conduct research: natural science & engineering social sciences & humanities canadian foundation for innovation information technology heath petroleum. provide other program: cultural…

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3
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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4
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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5
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial university is an inclusive community dedicated to innovation and excellence in teaching research scholarships creative activity seervices and public engagement. memorial welcomes and supports students and scholars from all over…

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6
Science Atlantic

Coordinate conferences for post-secondary students to present research - coordinate lecture tours of scientists in atlantic canada - present award for outstanding science communication and research to students - facilitate meetings of…

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7
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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10
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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11
Queen's University At Kingston

The university's mission is to build on the strenght of queen's students faculty staff and alumini to be among the best of internationally known universities in canada recognized for: a) the exceptional quality of its undergraduate and…

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12
New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Inc/Fondation Des Arts Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc

Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Brunswick and the most unlike its peers is Montcrest School. 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

27 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. 27 of the 31 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
25/27
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 budgetRothesay Netherwood School — C$350,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHN — C$148,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John Regional Hospital Foundation — C$101,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMontcrest School — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUPEI ATLANTIC VETERINAY COLLEGE HOSPITAL — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS — C$25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPublic Policy Forum — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNB MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRUDE INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE SOUTHEAST NEW BRUNSWICK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFESAVING SOCIETY NEW BRUNSWICK — C$6,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCANADIAN NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOUR SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPortage Atlantic Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOMIDON NATURALISTS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPERIAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT JOHN THEATRE COMPANY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDING CULTURES MUSEUM — C$1,500 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

The Greater Saint Joh…Arthur L. Irving Fami…The Windsor FoundationThe Joyce Family Foun…The McCain FoundationThe Community Foundat…Sisters of Charity of…Sussex Area Community…Harrison McCain Found…Fundy Community Found…United Way Maritimes/…R. Howard Webster Fou…
The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint JohnNB12.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · The Joyce Family Foundation · The McCain Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception · Sussex Area Community Foundation Incorporated · Harrison McCain Foundation · Fundy Community Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster

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 31 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 851520908:2020-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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