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Owen Sound, ON · Charitable organization

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C$32k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$4,500
Individual grant recipientC$3,000
WOMEN'S HOUSE SERVING GREY & BRUCEC$1,500
VICTIM SERVICES BRUCE GREY PERTHC$1,500
THE WOMEN'S CENTRE (GREY & BRUCE) INC.C$1,500
ST. JOHN COUNCIL FOR ONTARIOC$1,500
SALVATION ARMYC$1,500
SAFE 'N SOUND RESIDENCEC$1,500
REACH CENTRE GREY/BRUCEC$1,500
PARTICIPATION LODGE - GREY BRUCEC$1,500
OSHAREC$1,500
KEYSTONE CHILD YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICESC$1,500
MEAFORD FOOD BANK & OUTREACHC$1,500
GEORGIAN RIDING ASSOCIATION FOR CHALLENGED EQUESTRIANSC$1,500
CRIME STOPPERS OF GREY BRUCE INC.C$1,500
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$207k · 23 repeat orgsC$27k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

C$207k
C$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+38%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • O
    OSHARE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$12k · revenue +453%
  • WH
    WOMEN'S HOUSE SERVING GREY AND BRUCE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$12k · revenue +26%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S CENTRE (GREY AND BRUCE) INC.
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$10k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF GREY-BRUCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +38%
  • OS
    Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue -6%
  • CF
    Community Foundation Grey Brucegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +146%

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
Home and Community Support Services of Grey-Bruce

Meals on wheels frozen meals transportation adult day programs community dementia program community stroke program overnight respite housekeeping in-home respite friendly visiting

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2
Bruce Grey Child & Family Services Foundation
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3
Grey Bruce Animal Shelter

Grey bruce animal shelter is a charitable organization dedicated to the provision of animal shelter services to meet the needs of homeless animals.

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4
G & B House

To provide a home like environment and counselling for men with substance abuse problems. Residents are referred to G & B House by various organizations throughout Ontario, mainly in Grey and Bruce Counties. G&B House attempts to assist…

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5
Ymca of Owen Sound Grey Bruce

The ymca owen sound grey bruce is a charity dedicated to strengthen the foundations of communities. we do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social responsibility.…

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6
South Bruce Grey Health Centre

South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) is a dynamic multi-site health care organization serving four rural communities in southern Grey and Bruce Counties. Each of our hospital sites offer acute care services a 24-7 emergency department…

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7
Bruce Peninsula Association for Community Living

Provide Support services to individuals and their families with developmental challenges. Services include day programming residential homes employment & community integration case management respite support transportation & housing. Our…

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8
Grey Bruce Palliative Care-Hospice Association Inc

Through education support & services grey bruce palliative care hospice association is dedicated to enhance the quality of life for individuals & families experiencing a life threatening illness

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9
South-East Grey Support Services
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10
Grey Bruce Aboriginal Qimmiq Team

Provision of spay/neuter parasite control & wellness veterinary services to semi-remote & remote first nations communities. also provide vaccination services to canine populations

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11
El Sistema Grey-Bruce (the Big Sound)
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12
Bruce Grey Mentorship

Mentoring group program for young people 6 to 16 years old. mentor matches with individual kids work together in the community. we have 17 mentors who work with 18 young people. art club for young people aged 12 to 17. games club for young…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association, Grey Bruce Branch and the most unlike its peers is Meaford Food Bank and Outreach. 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

27 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. 27 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOSHARE — C$11,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S HOUSE SERVING GREY AND BRUCE — C$11,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTRE (GREY AND BRUCE) INC. — C$10,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIMS SERVICES BRUCE GREY PERTH — C$10,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE 'N SOUND RESIDENCE — C$10,200 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPARTICIPATION LODGE -GREY BRUCE — C$10,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN TOWN OUTREACH — C$10,200 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL HOSPICE OF GREY-BRUCE INC. — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRUCE GREY CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$9,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF GREY BRUCE — C$9,200 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetREACH CENTRE GREY / BRUCE — C$9,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBEAVER VALLEY OUTREACH — C$9,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE CHILD YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$8,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRIME STOPPERS OF GREY BRUCE INC. — C$7,800 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGEORGIAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHALLENGED EQUESTRIANS — C$6,700 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetST. JOHN COUNCIL FOR ONTARIO — C$6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF GREY-BRUCE INC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOwen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation Grey Bruce — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaugeen Valley Children's Safety Village — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOWEN SOUND LITTLE THEATRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES, GREY-BRUCE COMMUNITY CORPORATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrey Bruce Autism — C$2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRUCE GREY — C$700 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Bruce G…Canada GivesThe Markdale Rotary C…The James Goreski Pri…Hydro One Employees' …The Eva Leflar Founda…Hepworth / Sauble Bea…Holland Centre Pastor…Owen Sound Knights of…The Joan and Jim Patt…Youth and Philanthrop…
Community Foundation Grey BruceON25.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Grey Bruce · United Way of Bruce Grey · Canada Gives · The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trust · The James Goreski Private Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The Eva Leflar Foundation · Hepworth / Sauble Beach Pastoral Charge · Holland Centre Pastoral Charge · Owen Sound Knights of Columbus Council No 2092 Charitable Tr · The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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 34 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 2023-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119206282:2023-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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