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Stratford, ON · Charitable organization

Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada

Established in 1952 the Stratford Festival is one of North America’s longest running arts organizations.

C$293k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k58 grants · C$164k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$39k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$91k
C$2,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTORS FUND OF CANADA (THE AFC)C$90,856
PACT-PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CAN THEATREC$22,072
TORONTO CATHOLIC DSBC$16,644
WATERLOO REGION DSBC$9,765
UNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURONC$9,175
TORONTO DISTRICT SBC$9,160
YORK CATHOLIC DSBC$8,300
AVON MAITLAND DSBC$7,204
SIMCOE COUNTY DSBC$7,050
HALTON DISTRICT SBC$6,000
HALTON DISTRICT SBC$6,000
LAMBTON KENT DSBC$5,900
THAMES VALLEY DSBC$5,888
Six Nations School DistrictC$5,400
NEAR NORTH DSBC$5,400
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$307k · 30 repeat orgsC$234k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
10

Total granted

C$307k
C$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$163k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’24
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURON
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$29k · revenue +14%
  • AF
    ATLOHSA FAMILY HEALINGS SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$22k · revenue +9%
  • TC
    TORONTO CATHOLIC DSB
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$20k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PS
    PAL STRATFORD
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$33k · revenue -28% · 30% of their budget
  • AU
    Algoma Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +311%
  • ST
    SUMMERWORKS THEATRE FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2022 · C$12k · revenue +23%

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
Lakehead District School Board

Lakehead District School Board is an english language public school board delivering services as mandated by the educational statuses and regulations of the Province of Ontario.

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2
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

Providing Student Scholarships Providing Schools with special supplies and/or activities Running of Public Schools with related Board

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3
Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario

Providing Catholic Education in multiple elementary and secondary schools within the counties of Lanark Grenville Dundas Stormont Russell Prescott and Glengarry

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4
Timiskaming District Secondary School Awards Fund

Solicit and process awards bursaries and scholarships for timiskaming district secondary school graduating students

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5
Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l'Ontario

Le conseil scolaire du grand nord de l'ontario offre de l'education par l'entremise des écoles élémentaires et secondaires dans le nord et le nord-ouest de la province

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6
Renfrew County Catholic District School Board
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7
Education Foundation of Niagara

To enhance learning opportunities for students served by the district school board of niagara by offering scholarships bursaries awards and to provide funding to schools and supporting public education

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8
Keewatin-Patricia District School Board

District school board under the ontario ministry of education

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9
Durham District School Board Charitable Trust

In addition to receiving investment and bank interest the trust received donations from individuals to be awarded to students at various schools for their achievements.

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10
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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11
The Board of Education of School District No. 23 (Central Okanagan)

Enhancing education through the School Distruct

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12
Board of Education of the Regina School Division No. 4 of Saskatchewan

Advancements of education through the provisions of the Education Act 1995 of Saskatchewan. Awarding scholarships and bursaries. Purchase of materials and supplies for school use.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simcoe County District School Board (Scdsb) and the most unlike its peers is Summerworks Theatre Festival. 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

85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
59/85
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCUSO International — C$92,753 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTORS FUND OF CANADA (THE AFC) — C$90,856 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPAL STRATFORD — C$32,933 over 2y, 30% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURON — C$29,175 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPACT-PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CAN THEATRE — C$22,072 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetATLOHSA FAMILY HEALINGS SERVICES — C$21,850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlgoma University — C$20,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO CATHOLIC DSB — C$19,631 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SB — C$15,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHALTON DISTRICT SB — C$14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYORK CATHOLIC DSB — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO REGION DSB — C$10,062 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSIMCOE COUNTY DSB — C$7,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVON MAITLAND DSB — C$7,454 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEAR NORTH DSB — C$7,400 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRAINBOW DISTRICT SB — C$7,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY DSB — C$6,888 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA CATHOLIC SB — C$6,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBTON KENT DSB — C$6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDufferin-Peel Catholic District SB — C$6,065 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONAVENIR CONSEIL SCOLAIRE — C$4,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA CATHOLIC DS — C$4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEEL DISTRICT SB — C$4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSEIL SCOLAIRE CATHOLIQUE PROVIDENCE — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRILLIUM LAKELANDS DSB — C$3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONDON DISTRICT CSB — C$3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEWATER DSB — C$3,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYork Region DSB — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CLAIR CATHOLIC DSB — C$2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSEIL SCOLAIRE VIAMONDE — C$2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Essex County DSB — C$2,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Grand DSB — C$2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WINDSOR — C$2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l'Ontario — C$2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO CATHOLIC DSB — C$2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPICKERING COLLEGE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuron Superior Catholic DSB — C$2,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetConseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSOR ESSEX CATHOLIC DSB — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADORE COLLEGE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMCOE MUSKOKA CDSB — C$2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCSDC FRANCO NORD — C$1,800 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKAWARTHA PINE RIDGE DSB — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRENFREW COUNTY DSB — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA CHRISTIAN COLLEGIATE — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND ERIE DSB — C$1,432 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Indigo Love of Readin…Td Friends of the Env…Music Education Chari…Cwb Welding FoundationStratford and Perth C…Peterborough Child an…Community Foundation …Goodlife Kids Foundat…Muskoka Community Fou…Grand River Conservat…The Cowan FoundationCanadian Race Relatio…
Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la LectureON35.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Music Education Charity of Canada · Cwb Welding Foundation · Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation · Peterborough Child and Family Centres · Community Foundation Grey Bruce · Goodlife Kids Foundation · Muskoka Community Foundation · Grand River Conservation Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · Canadian Race Relations Foundation - Fondation Canadienne Des Relations Raciales

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 71 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 arts.

Source object 119200103:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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