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Brantford, ON · Private foundation

Stephen Smith & Dorothy Woltz Foundation

Donations to charitable and educational organizations primarily in brantford and district contributed by the estate of dorothy woltz

C$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k44 grants · C$151k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$120k
C$3,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRANT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATIONC$20,000
ST JOSEPH'S LIFECAREC$15,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTREC$12,500
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$12,500
LANSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BRANT UNITED WAYC$10,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$10,000
CAMFIRE CIRCLEC$10,000
WOODVIEW MENTAL HEALTH AND AUTISM SERVICESC$10,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$10,000
GRACE ANGLICAN CHURCHC$8,000
BRANTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$7,500
CHILDREN BELIEVE FUNDC$7,500
BRANT FOOD FOR THOUGHTC$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$5,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 87% of grant dollars (C$1.7M). The 13% that went abroad (C$239k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 13% of all-years giving (C$239k)

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 54 repeat orgsC$238k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
53

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$238k

Still filing today

87%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • BC
    Brant Community Healthcare System Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$140k · revenue +79%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S LIFECARE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$105k · revenue +43%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$73k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BC
    BRANT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k
  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S LIFECARE FOUNDATION - STEDMAN HOSPICE
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BRANT
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k

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.

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Brant Community Healthcare System
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2
Brant Land Trust

To identify preserve and restore the natural environment and heritage sites in the geographic region of the county of brant and the city of brantford. these include environmental scientific cultural scenic open space historic architectural…

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3
The Brant Foundation for Persons With Developmental Needs

Provide buildings which are rented to the brantford district association for community living for use as group homes for the use and benefit of all persona of brant community with development needs

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4
Brantford and District Supervised Access Centre

Provides a facility to allow children and non-custodial parents to interact in a supervised environment

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5
Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation

The Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation solicits maintains and grants funds to enhance and/or improve the facilities and services of the Joseph Brant Hospital.

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6
Contact Brant for Children's and Developmental Services

Information listing of community programs and services; intake and referral to developmental autism services coordinated service planning with families service coordination supports for families of children and youth with fasd or suspected…

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7
Brantford Welcome in Resource Centre
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8
Brant Community Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to act as a community leader and catalyst and to be a vehicle to provide a way for donors to improve their community forever building and holding a permanent endowment the income of which is to be used to…

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9
Brant Animal Aid Foundation

Raise and distribute funds to assist in the prevention and relief of unnecessary suffering of animals and to undertake public education to encourage better understanding of animal needs and care.

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10
Brant Music Festival

Host an annual judicated music fesstival for students studying voice piano and /or stings. classes also include school choirs bands and instrumental ensemles. qualifying students were awarded trophies and scholarships to promote continued…

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11
Brantford Pipes and Drums
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12
Brantford Little School Community Child Care Centre

Provide child care for infants and preschool children.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brant United Way and the most unlike its peers is Little String Orchestra. 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

49 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. 49 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
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 budgetBrant Community Healthcare System Foundation — C$140,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S LIFECARE — C$105,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$72,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLansdowne Children's Centre Foundation — C$70,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$67,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Anglican Church — C$56,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetBrantford Symphony Orchestra — C$52,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetChristian Children's Fund — C$52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOODVIEW MENTAL HEALTH AND AUTISM SERVICES — C$50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBRANT UNITED WAY — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNOVA VILLA — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSt. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church — C$35,000 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetParticipation House Brantford — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetthe Salvation Army — C$35,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetCrossing All Bridges Learning Centre Ltd — C$35,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBrant Food for Thought — C$35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SAFETY VILLAGE — C$30,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetYM YWCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH — C$29,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCAMFIRE CIRCLE — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRPLACES INNOVATION CENTRE — C$25,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCamp Trillium — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society — C$24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR H UMANITY BRANT — C$24,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWhy Not City Missions — C$24,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCanadian Diabetes — C$21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES HILLIER FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brantford — C$21,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetST JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$21,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetBRANTFORD MUSIC CLUB — C$20,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetSt. John Ambulance — C$18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRANTWOOD FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 7y, 10% of budgetSydenham Street United Church — C$17,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBrant Family and Children's Services Foundation — C$17,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBRANT HALIDIMAND CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$17,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Sunshine Foundation — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBrantford School of Instrumental Music — C$17,500 over 7y, 34% of budgetTHE LITTLE STRING ORCHESTRA — C$17,500 over 6y, 21% of budgetBrant Waterways Foundation — C$14,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTuberous Sclerosis Canada — C$14,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetThe Grant River Chorus — C$14,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetArnold Anderson Sport Fund — C$14,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetKIDS CAN FLY — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM DOG SERVICES INC — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCrime Stoppers — C$10,500 over 7y, 26% of budgetThe Lung Association — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGlenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds Brant Community Healthcare System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S LIFECARE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Lansdowne Children's Centre Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Grace Anglican Church ↗
  • Who funds Brantford Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Christian Children's Fund ↗
  • Who funds WOODVIEW MENTAL HEALTH AND AUTISM SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BRANT UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds NOVA VILLA ↗
  • Who funds St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church ↗
  • Who funds Participation House Brantford ↗
  • Who funds WILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds the Salvation Army ↗
  • Who funds Crossing All Bridges Learning Centre Ltd ↗
  • Who funds Brant Food for Thought ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SAFETY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds YM YWCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD ↗
  • Who funds ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CAMFIRE CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds RPLACES INNOVATION CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Camp Trillium ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross Society ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR H UMANITY BRANT ↗
  • Who funds Why Not City Missions ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Diabetes ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES HILLIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Brantford ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds BRANTFORD MUSIC CLUB ↗
  • Who funds St. John Ambulance ↗
  • Who funds BRANTWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sydenham Street United Church ↗
  • Who funds Brant Family and Children's Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BRANT HALIDIMAND CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗

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.

Brant Community Found…The Roger and Edith D…The Rotary Club of Br…Brant United WayThe Hensen FoundationRotary Club of Brantf…Mowbray and Doris Sif…Brantford Cornerstone…The Cowan FoundationKiwanis Club of Brant…Thrive Church CanadaHamilton Community Fo…
Brant Community FoundationON30.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brant Community Foundation · The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation · The Rotary Club of Brantford Sunrise · Brant United Way · The Hensen Foundation · Rotary Club of Brantford Charitable Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · Brantford Cornerstone Church · The Cowan Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Brantford Charitable Corporation · Thrive Church Canada · Hamilton 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 107 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.

Source object 119152155:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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