Regina, SK · Charitable organization
Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism Inc.
Facilitate programming and services related to senior's issues in saskatchewan
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
- C$10k–50k15 grants · C$237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SASKATOON COUNCIL ON AGING | C$44,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$22,500 |
| SASKATOON SERVICES FOR SENIORS | C$22,500 |
| SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR FITNESS | C$20,027 |
| SASK SENIORS ASSOCIATION | C$13,500 |
| FEDERATION DES AINES FRANS | C$13,000 |
| BAY BUS TRANSPORTATION INC | C$12,500 |
| SASKABILITIES YORKTON & RURAL AREAS | C$12,500 |
| STRABOURG AGE FRIENDLY RECREATION BOARD | C$12,500 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$12,500 |
| AGE FRIENDLY REGINA STEERING COMMITTEE | C$10,700 |
| WAPELLA HAPPY GO LUCKY CLUB | C$10,000 |
| ZION UNITED CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| HERITAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC | C$10,000 |
| WHEATLAND SENIOR CENTRE | C$10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 81% of grant dollars (C$645k). The 19% that went abroad (C$148k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 19% of all-years giving (C$148k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$147k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REGINA7× · 2017–2023 · C$216k · revenue +22%
- SCSASKATOON COUNCIL ON AGING7× · 2017–2024 · C$166k · revenue +35%
- SSSASKATOON SERVICES FOR SENIORS2× · 2020–2024 · C$30k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SSSASKATCHEWAN SENIORS FITNESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · C$25k
- SCSASKATOON COUNCIL ON AGINGone grant, 2020 · C$20k
- RSREGINA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTREgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +28%
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.
Exercise yoga cards and dsocial activities for seniors education programs for seniors
Facilitate programming and services related to senior's issues in saskatchewan
Various programs for the seniors various games physical activities workshops etc
Providing various programs and friendship groups to seniors. Programs include quilting carpet bowling painting pickleball table tennis pool room games nights lunch fitness zumba happy hours and computer workshops. At Ogden 50+ we care for…
Province-wide senior's services hosting of provincial games and local activities for seniors (55+) to participate in fun activities promote lifelong fitness and active lifestyles. host winter and summer provincial games and zone playoffs.
Library Services including education cultural and recreational programing.
Community based home support services for seniors and adults living with disabilities including: transportation friendly visiting telephone security and assurance home maintenance frozen meals grocery delivery intervention and assistance…
Holden and area seniors meet tuesday afternoons at the holden drop in centre to socialize. cards and shuffleboard along with lots of coffee drinking provide the opportunity to relieve some of the isolation experience in central rural…
Billiards book club board games cards choir crafts aerobics strength training sit & fit pickleball darts dupliciate bridge floor and table shuffleboard garden and nature club line dancing scrabble table tennis walkabout and yoga
We operate a health delivery system providing a full range of health care services to residents of the Saskatoon Health Region and other residents of Saskatchewan. Services are provided in hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary…
At the centre we offer a wide array of programs geared to our seniors-these include but are not limited to: line dancing keep fit ball room dancing floor curling quilting woodcarving billiards canasta majong euchre and a tuesday afternoon…
Plan social events for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatoon Services for Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Canadian Red Cross Society / La Societe Canadienne De La Croix-Rouge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 22 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 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA ↗
- Who funds SASKATOON COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds SASKATCHEWAN SENIORS FITNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SASKATOON SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds ZION UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds REGINA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND SENIOR CENTRE ↗
- Who funds SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC ↗
- Who funds MOOSE JAW AND DISTRICT SENIORS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
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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.