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Stratford, ON · Public foundation

Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation

Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (Community Foundation) facilitates philanthropy and provides gifts and resources to community service organizations delivering vital programs and services to the residents in Stratford St.

C$308k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$21k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k66 grants · C$199k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$109k
C$2,350
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$20,600
AVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$20,550
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PERTH HURONC$15,200
MAITLAND VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$12,000
UPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$10,904
UNITED WAY PERTH-HURONC$10,000
HURON PERTH CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$10,000
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF STRATFORDC$10,000
MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTHC$9,800
OUT OF THE ASHES LARGE ANIMAL RESCUEC$9,000
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF LONDON AND REGIONC$8,750
L'ARCHE STRATFORDC$8,500
YMCA OF THREE RIVERS (MIDWESTERN ONTARIO)C$8,000
HURON COUNTY FOOD BANK DISTRIBUTION CENTREC$7,500
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF STRATFORDC$7,500
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 72 repeat orgsC$384k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
61

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+14%

Still filing today

79%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$48k 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

  • SP
    Stratford Perth Community Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$410k · revenue +34%
  • MV
    Maitland Valley Conservation Authority
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$125k · revenue +46%
  • AM
    AVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$115k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • GC
    Golf Canada Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · C$30k
  • CL
    Community Living St. Marys and Areagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$23k · revenue +28%
  • IL
    Independent Living Waterloo Region
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +10%

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
Community Living Stratford and Area

Community support and residential services for the intellectually disabled; serving approximately 125 youths and adults in stratford and perth county.

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2
Stratford and District Agricultural Society

The society provides awareness of agricultural and promotes improvements in life skills and quality of life in persons living within the community. the charity increases awareness and appreciation of agricultural. the society is focused on…

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3
Brant Waterways Foundation

Provide support for water and environmental projects in the city of brantford and county of brant.

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4
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Holding Foundation

Hold and maintain major capital assets for The Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada including but not limited to the Festival Theatre the Avon/Studio Theatre complex the Tom Patterson Theatre and the Brunswick Centre. To acquire and…

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5
Community Living - South Huron

The organization is a community organized dedicated to providing support to people with intellectual challenges through education advocacy and innovation. it operates programs and facilities in southwestern ontario including various adult…

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6
West Sturgeon People Aging in Place Foundation

We provide affordable housing for seniors (and occassionally for those that are not seniors but who have a disability) with the objective of aging in place.

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7
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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8
Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance

Provision of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services for the region.

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9
Sturgeon Community Hospital and Health Centre Foundation

The foundation solicits and recieves donations through fundraising activities to fund new technology medical and surgical equipment and healthcare programs to ensure the clients of the sturgeon community hospital continue to recieve high…

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10
Strathroy Middlesex Housing Corporation

Provide residential support to adults with intellectual disabilities in middlesex county ontario

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11
Strathroy District Arts Council

Arts & Advocacy Audience Development & Arts Education For All Working & Promoting Interest in Building An Arts Centre Support & Encourage Arts & Culture in Strathroy & surrounding communities Youth Performing Arts

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12
Resilience Huron Perth Mental Health Services

Public education and information designed to raise awareness of mental health and mental illnes in the community. supportive housing provided to clients. development of social and recreational groups for clients.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Out of the Ashes Large Animal Rescue (Oalar). 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

95 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. 95 of the 145 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/95
Grantees still filing
64/95
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 budgetStratford Perth Community Foundation — C$409,950 over 7y, 16% of budgetMaitland Valley Conservation Authority — C$125,350 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetAVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$114,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association Huron Perth Addi — C$113,750 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetStratford General Hospital Foundation — C$109,573 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetThe Local Community Food Centre — C$105,552 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCommunity Living North Perth — C$88,150 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetOptimism Place Woman's Shelter & Support Services — C$86,350 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PERTH HURON — C$82,400 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetBrain Injury Association of London and Region — C$68,850 over 5y, 12% of budgetFamily Services Perth-Huron — C$68,120 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Salvation Army Listowel Corps — C$60,004 over 8y, 36% of budgetUnited Way of Perth-Huron (Homes for Everyone) — C$55,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetStratford House of Blessing — C$55,800 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetSTRATFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY (AGENCY MANAGED FUND) — C$45,691 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$40,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundation — C$36,650 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWellspring London Cancer Support Centre — C$36,530 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$36,470 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONE CARE Home and Community Support Services — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kiwanis Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation — C$34,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetOff the Wall Stratford Artists Alliance — C$33,850 over 3y, 13% of budgetCAMP BIMINI — C$33,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetStratford Perth Hospice Foundation — C$31,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetStratford/Perth Shelter Link — C$29,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSt. Joseph's Health Care Foundation — C$25,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmily Murphy Centre Second Stage Housing — C$24,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Living St. Marys and Area — C$22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHURON COUNTY FOOD BANK DISTRIBUTION CENTRE — C$21,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHURON PERTH CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$21,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Heartland Ontario — C$21,096 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFacile: Independent Facilitation Perth — C$19,640 over 5y, 12% of budgetGallery Stratford — C$19,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKnollcrest Lodge — C$19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGoals — C$17,400 over 5y, 45% of budgetL'ARCHE STRATFORD — C$16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetStratford Symphony Orchestra — C$15,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Living Waterloo Region — C$15,041 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWaterloo Region Track 3 Ski School — C$15,041 over 1y, 24% of budgetCentral Ontario Developmental Riding Program — C$15,041 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNutrition for Learning Inc. — C$15,041 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Perth Museum Association — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetScientists in School — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF THREE RIVERS (MIDWESTERN ONTARIO) — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Listowel and District — C$10,800 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNorth Perth Community Hospice — C$10,700 over 7y, 4.4% 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.

United Way of Perth-H…Zion Evangelical Luth…The Rotary Club of Fe…London Community Foun…The Rotary Club of St…Tri-County Mennonite …Atwood United ChurchFlavelle Family Found…Optimist Club of Stra…Emmanuel United ChurchMowbray and Doris Sif…Waterloo Region Commu…
United Way of Perth-HuronON24.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Perth-Huron · Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church · The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundation · London Community Foundation · The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation · Tri-County Mennonite Homes · Atwood United Church · Flavelle Family Foundation · Optimist Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation · Emmanuel United Church · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · Waterloo Region 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 145 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 884884305:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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