St Thomas, ON · Charitable organization
St Andrew's United Church
The church continues to support qualified charities as well as the United Church of Canada Mission.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Church of Canada Mission and Service | C$3,240 |
| St. Thomas Elgin Food Bank | C$1,436 |
| The Inn | C$85 |
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.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- TUThe United Church of Canada- M&S and World Development8× · 2017–2024 · C$70k · revenue +22%
- TGThe Grace Cafe6× · 2017–2022 · C$2k · revenue +297%
- IOInn Out of the Cold St. Thomas-Elgin6× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- TUThe United Church of Canada Syrian Reliefone grant, 2017 · C$1k
- ERElgin Residential Hospiceone grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -1%
- RCRefugee Committee of St. Thomasgraduated2× · 2017–2021 · C$717 · revenue ×19
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.
Grace Inn Shelter operates a homeless shelter. It helps adults in a safe dignified and hospitable environment by meeting essential needs providing compassionate mentors and advocating for a future with hope. We extend hospitality to our…
Provision of healthcare to patients
London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…
Operation of food bank for people in need
Is a not-for-profit charitable organization whose purpose is the delivery of primary healthcare to members of the communities of st. thomas southwold and central elgin with an emphasis on those people experiencing barriers to care. cchc's…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Mission Services of London is a Christian faith-based social service agency delivering services through five branches. The Men's Mission provides emergency shelter food referrals to other services transitional housing and more to men…
Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…
Homeless meals clothing drives produce market/food bank services Easter and Christmas gift programs back-to-school supplies and direct donation support through clients.
Stella's Circle Community Services has a mandate that revolves around three core objectives: 1) to provide support and counselling to individuals who have experienced significant personal problems that contribute to poverty and…
Offer 12 step recovery program & free councilling feed general public free weekly meals weekly worship services and bible study open to public operate a clothing/necessities give away program connect homeless individuals with shelter…
The Nameless is a harm reduction and homelessness inreach/outreach organization located in St Thomas Ontario. We provide barrier-free access to harm reduction supplies (i.e. sterile syringes disposal bins Naloxone) for people who use drugs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grace Cafe of St. Thomas and the most unlike its peers is Courage for Freedom. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 The United Church of Canada- M&S and World Development ↗
- Who funds The Grace Cafe ↗
- Who funds Inn Out of the Cold St. Thomas-Elgin ↗
- Who funds Elgin Christmas Care ↗
- Who funds Elgin Residential Hospice ↗
- Who funds Funny Farm Ministries ↗
- Who funds Refugee Committee of St. Thomas ↗
- Who funds Fresh Start Maternity ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS SHOPPE - FIRST UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE HOSPICE INC., ↗
- Who funds New Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds Centre for Christian Studies ↗
- Who funds PEARCE WILLIAMS CHRISTIAN CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Christian Blind Mission ↗
- Who funds Canadian Bible Society ↗
- Who funds LONDON AND AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE LEPROSY MISSION CANADA (EFFECT: HOPE) ↗
- Who funds Canadian Foodgrains Bank ↗
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: Don and Hazel Williams Foundation · Elgin-St. Thomas Community Foundation · United Way Elgin Middlesex · St. Paul's United Church · Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of St Thomas · Westminster College Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontario · New Vision Community Church · Centre Street Baptist Church · Knox Presbyterian Church · St Thomas Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) · Southwold United Church Pastoral Charge
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.