Thunder Bay, ON · Charitable organization
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church
To provide religious services and support to it's congregation and community music pups
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shelter House | C$628 |
| Lifewater Canada | C$628 |
| Thunder Bay Christmas Cheer Fund | C$300 |
| Action Refugies Montreal | C$200 |
| Children's Aid Society | C$200 |
| Thunder Bay Food Bank | C$100 |
| Underground Gym & Youth Centre | C$100 |
| Our Kids Count of Thunder Bay | C$100 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100 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
- LCLIFEWATER CANADA5× · 2018–2024 · C$5k · revenue +260%
- TBTHUNDER BAY CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND7× · 2018–2024 · C$2k · revenue +88%
- ARACTION REFUGIES MONTREAL7× · 2018–2024 · C$1k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TPThe Presbyterian Church in Canadaone grant, 2017 · C$17k
- SHShelter Houseone grant, 2017 · C$1k
- DGDR. Graham's Houseone grant, 2017 · C$920
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.
Construction of simple affordable housing and provision of interest-free mortgages and conditional forgiveness of second mortgages for qualified families in need of assistance
Program delivery of assistance and referral services to victims of crime or tragic circumstances through funding by the ministry of children community and social services along with donations and fundraising.
Food bank Free clothing depot community outreach women/men's group
Provider of charitable and educational services for women. provider of support and information referral for women. drop-in centre and meeting place for women and resource centre for women. provider of good food box program in thunder bay…
To provide shelter and care for abounded animals to locate proper homes for abandoned animals to educate the public on animal welfare
Assist low income families and individuals with food and other supplies.
Operate a drop in centre targeting the most needy of Thunder Bay.
Children and youth services/housing family and cirsis counselling mental health services and support groups
The organization operates a soup kitchen called the dew drop inn at 286 red river road in the city of thunder bay. we provide a dailt mid-day meal with assistance from volunteers. we endeavor to provide a safe welcoming environment where…
To relieve poverty by providing food and other basic supplies to persons of low income by establishing operating and maintaining a food bank.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thunder Bay Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifewater Canada. 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 LIFEWATER CANADA ↗
- Who funds Dr. Graham's House ↗
- Who funds Shelter House ↗
- Who funds THUNDER BAY CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACTION REFUGIES MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND GYM & YOUTH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Children's Aid Society ↗
- Who funds Faye Peterson Centre ↗
- Who funds THUNDER BAY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Distributor 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Thunder Bay · First-Wesley United Church · Church of the Holy Cross · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Thunder Bay Community Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Calvin Presbyterian Church · Lakehead District School Board Employees Charity Trust Fund · Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of Thunder Bay · John Andrews Foundation · Vancouver 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.