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Saint John, NB · Private foundation

Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Inc.

Sheila hugh mackay foundation - where artists are supported understood and value.

C$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$87k
C$12,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRE DES ARTS ET DE LA CULTURE DE DIEPPE INC.C$20,000
SAINT JOHN ARTS CENTREC$20,000
Individual grant recipientC$20,000
ARTS LINK NBC$15,000
BEAVERBROOK ART GALLERYC$12,000
ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE OF SUSSEX INCC$6,000
SUNBURY SHORES ART & NATURE CENTREC$5,000
NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUMC$5,000
NEW BRUNSWICK INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM INC.C$4,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$373k). The 17% that went abroad (C$75k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$75k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$334k · 10 repeat orgsC$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

C$334k
C$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN ARTS CENTRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$58k · revenue +50%
  • TA
    THE ANDREW & LAURA MCCAIN ART GALLERY
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$45k · revenue +26%
  • SS
    SUNBURY SHORES ARTS AND NATURE CENTRE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$28k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UP
    UNFOLDING PICTURES INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • CA
    CRAFT ALLIANCE ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Newcastles Art Show Inc.

Shows classes and events relating to art shows.

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2
The Art Gallery of Peterborough

Art exhibits educational programs audio visual displays publications and art collection

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3
Art Gallery of Northumberland

Art gallery art education exhibitions

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4
Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design - Cape Breton School

The centre serves the craft community of cape breton island from beginners and recreational practitioners to highly accomplished professionals offering instruction as well as resource and support services. the centre offers a variety of…

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5
Art Gallery of Burlington

As a charitable not-for-profit cultural and educational organization we provide Burlington and surrounding areas an equitable and inclusive place to create collaborate and innovate. We deliver thought-provoking exhibitions educational…

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6
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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7
Peterborough Artists Inc.

Workshops/programs festivals markets gallery for presentation

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8
Durham Art Gallery

Advancement of the public's appreciation of the arts by presenting a broad range of arts practices and by providing educational activities

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9
The Art Gallery of Windsor

Exhibitions of contemporary and historical works of major canadian and international works of art along with related educational programs. collect and preserve canadian works of art of both contemporary and historical significance.

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10
St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre

Present visual art exhibitions of local regional and national art works; preservation research and exhibition of permanent collection; provide art classes workshops lectures and tours; consulting art for the community; co-ordinate and…

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11
Stride Art Gallery Association

Stride art gallery association provides gallery exhibition spaces and presentation opportunities for diverse art projects both local and international that stimulate a reconsideration and reframing of conventional points of view. workshops…

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12
Arts Burlington

To promote and act as representative body for the participating guilds operating in the art gallery of burlington and in the burlington community and to assist and enhance the appreciation of the arts and crafts in the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John Arts Centre Inc./Centre Des Arts De Saint John Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte County Activity Centre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
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 budgetBEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY — C$107,450 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT JOHN ARTS CENTRE — C$58,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW & LAURA MCCAIN ART GALLERY — C$45,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSUNBURY SHORES ARTS AND NATURE CENTRE INC — C$27,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSCULPTURE SAINT JOHN — C$24,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCENTRE DES ARTS ET DE LA CULTURE DE DIEPPE INC. — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNB — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRestigouche Regional Museum — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE OF SUSSEX INC — C$8,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHIRD SPACE — C$5,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFREDERICTON ARTS & LEARNING — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTRUTS GALLERY AND FAUCET MEDIA ARTs CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGALERIE SANS NOM — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 McCain FoundationLockhart FoundationThe Greater Saint Joh…Fredericton Community…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps CanadonPayPal Giving Fund Ca…
The McCain FoundationNB9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McCain Foundation · Lockhart Foundation · The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · Fredericton Community Foundation Inc. · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 20 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 891762049:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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