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St. Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

Silver Spire United Church

Regular worship services.

C$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$13k
C$400
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED CHURCH MISSION & SERVICE FUNDC$12,699
CAVE SPRINGS CAMP INC.C$2,000
ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$1,000
SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLDC$800
HOTEL DIEU SHAVER FOUNDATIONC$500
THE RAFTC$500
BETHLEHEM HOUSING & SUPPORT SERVICESC$500
KRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTREC$500
SALVATION ARMYC$400
ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF NIAGARAC$400
NIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTREC$400
COMMUNITY CARE ST. CATHERINESC$266
LINCOLN CENTENNIAL PUBLIC SCH. BKFT. PROG.C$250
HARRIET TUBMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROG.C$250
E.I. MCGULLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROG.C$250
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$237k · 18 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

C$237k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-20%

Still filing today

94%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA - MISSION & SERVICE FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$177k · revenue +22%
  • CS
    CAVE SPRINGS CAMP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$28k · revenue +238%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY ST. CATHARINES
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue -47%
  • WC
    WESTVIEW CHRISTIAN CENTRE 4 WOMEN
    one grant, 2022 · C$940 · revenue -89%

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
Ymca of Niagara

We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By create safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA is committed to ensuring everyone…

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2
West Niagara Second Stage Housing & Counselling Inc

Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.

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3
Niagara Health System

Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.

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4
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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5
Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region

Family and children's services niagara provides mandated child welfare services to the niagara region include:the investigation of the possible abuse or neglect of children; children protection services; foster care; adoption services;…

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6
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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7
Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc.

Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc. provides community based rehabilitation services to persons living with the affects of an acquired brain injury. Services include supportive housing friendly visiting personal care life skills…

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8
The Children's Aid Foundation of York Region

Children's camps york region children's aid society special needs program

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9
United Way Niagara

We raise money from the communities served through corporate employee and individual donations. the funds are distributed to other registered charities through an allocation process or as designated by the donors. we also carry out…

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10
The Niagara District Homes Committee for the Physically Disabled

To provide housing and support services for the physically disabled individuals.

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11
Contact Niagara for Children's and Developmental Services

Contact niagara for children's and developmental services is a community based agency that provides a central informaton and referral access point for children and youth ages 0-18 who are experiencing emotional behavioural and /or…

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12
Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch

Programs and services for the psychiatric community and their families. promotion of mental health public education on mental illness. client advocacy one-to-one support safe bed provision crisis intervention information and referral…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Resource Service for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Westview Christian Fellowship. 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 37 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
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 budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA - MISSION & SERVICE FUND — C$176,780 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCAVE SPRINGS CAMP INC — C$27,685 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSALVATION ARMY ST. CATHARINES — C$4,472 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNIAGARA NUTRITION PARTNERS — C$4,120 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA RESOURCE SERVICE FOR YOUTH (RAFT) — C$4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD — C$2,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHAM HOUSING & SUPPORT SERVICES — C$2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$2,110 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE OAKS CENTRE — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$2,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCANADIAN FOOD GRAINS — C$1,962 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOTEL DIEU SHAVER FOUNDATION — C$1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNAUGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROG. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTVIEW CHRISTIAN CENTRE 4 WOMEN — C$940 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOZANAM CENTRE — C$900 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE NIAGARA — C$900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA — C$900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF NIAGARA — C$650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP RED ROOF RETREAT — C$440 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING ST. CATHARINES — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN'S BOWL FOOD PROGRAMME — C$200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S INTER-CHURCH COUNCIL — C$130 over 2y, 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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraThe Ontario Paper Tho…Wise Guys Charity FundCtfs Employees' Chari…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Niagara Region Police…Canadian Federation o…St Davids Queenston U…Rotary Club of St. Ca…The Branscombe Family…The Guelph Community …
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON17.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Canadian Federation of University Women - St Catharines Charitable Fund · St Davids Queenston United Church · Rotary Club of St. Catharines Charitable Trust · The Branscombe Family Foundation · The Guelph Community Foundation

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 37 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 131803009:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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