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Peterborough, ON · Private foundation

The Barron Cowan Foundation

In accordance with its mandate the organization has maintained and endowment fund the income from which has been used to support its ongoing charitable purposes via gifts to other registered charities during the year.

C$231k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$36k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$175k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAWARTHA PINE RIDGE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD-PRINCE OF WALESC$100,000
PETERBOROUGH YOUTH UNLIMITEDC$75,000
KAWARTHA LAND TRUST -WOLFE FORESTC$20,000
YWCA PETERBOROUGH HALIBURTONC$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$5,000
THE OTONABEE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$5,000
PETERBOROUGH HASTINGS TRAIL ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
PETERBOROUGH GREEN-UP ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
KAWARTHA FOOD SHAREC$5,000
THE OWL FOUNDATIONC$2,000
ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTREC$2,000
CROWE VALLEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$2,000
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$653k · 12 repeat orgsC$370k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

C$653k
C$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+14%

Still filing today

92%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$180k 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

  • KL
    KAWARTHA LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$141k · revenue +589%
  • PG
    PETERBOROUGH GREEN-UP ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$80k · revenue +5%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$66k · revenue +325%

Funded once

  • KP
    KAWARTHA PINE RIDGE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · C$45k
  • TT
    THE TOWNSHIP OF CAVAN MONAGHAN
    one grant, 2019 · C$16k

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
Kawartha Region Conservation Authority

Kawartha conservation is a watershed-based non-profit organization established in 1979 by the municipalities within our watershed under the ontario conservation authorities act. we are one of 36 conservation authorities operating in…

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2
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

Central lake ontario conservation authority's mission is to work towards the awareness understanding wise use and enhancement of our watershed resources for the benefit of the natural environment in partnership with our municipalities and…

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3
The Halton Region Conservation Authority

Conservation Halton is a community based environmental agency that protects restores and manages the watershed's conservation areas forests creeks Niagara Escarpment lands source water protection sites and biodiversity through science…

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4
Kawartha Conservation Foundation

The Kawartha Conservation Foundation successfully contributes to the programs and projects of Kawartha Conservation. Please help us bring environmental awareness and initiatives to life in our watershed. The Kawartha Conservation…

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5
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority

The npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical juridiction

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6
Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority

Communicate with municipalities/residents to increase public awareness & provide advice on env. issues; own over 3800 acres of natural open space which we protect & manage for present & future generations; youth education programs; work…

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7
Ontario Wildlife Foundation

The owf continued to fund a variety of programs in 2024. funds were once again provided to the invasive species centre the atlantic salmon restoration project (ofah) the peterborough children's wter festival and watersheds canada for…

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8
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority

We achieve our goals through myriad programs which take a holistic ecosystem approach. The UTRCA's 'ends' are to: protect life and property from flood and erosion protect and improve water quality preserve and manage natural areas provide…

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9
Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

Actively manage floodplains in accordance with the Conservation Authorities Act & Provincial Policy Statement meeting principles of prevention protection and emergency response. As well as Natural Heritage Plans as part of Municipal…

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10
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Foundation

Ongoing programs the npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical jurisdiction

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11
Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region

The organization builds homes for sale to qualifying individuals as affordable housing. the organization operates restore retail facilities which accept donated goods for retail resale in support of the housing build operations

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12
Peterborough Camping Services
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough and the most unlike its peers is Northumberland & Newcastle Board of Education Charitable Tru. 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

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 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKAWARTHA LAND TRUST — C$141,050 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetKAWARTHA PINE RIDGE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD-PRINCE OF WALES — C$100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPETERBOROUGH GREEN-UP ASSOCIATION — C$80,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetOntario Federation of Anglers & Hunters — C$78,747 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPETERBOROUGH YOUTH UNLIMITED — C$75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$66,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHE OTONABEE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA PETERBOROUGH HALIBURTON — C$63,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKAWARTHA FOOD SHARE — C$47,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$38,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCROWE VALLEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$28,000 over 7y, 88% of budgetTHE OWL FOUNDATION — C$27,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMILLBROOK CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY — C$10,600 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PETERBOROUGH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST.PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL (PETERBOROUGH) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPETERBOROUGH HASTINGS TRAIL ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOBBITSTEE WILDLIFE REFUGE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Canadian Canoe Museum — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeterborough Public Library — C$780 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Peterborou…Ontario Wildlife Foun…Kymar FoundationThe McLean FoundationLink Charity Canada I…Congregation of the S…Toronto FoundationThe Kelly Family Foun…Peterborough Field Na…Buddhist Women's Sang…Emmanuel United Church
Community Foundation of Greater PeterboroughON14.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough · United Way Peterborough & District · Ontario Wildlife Foundation · Kymar Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · Toronto Foundation · The Kelly Family Foundation · Peterborough Field Naturalists · Buddhist Women's Sangha of Ontario · Emmanuel United Church

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 25 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 858332554:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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