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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bob and Vera Mark Charitable Foundation

To benefit charitable entities which are 'qualified donees' under the canadian income tax act and which operate in the province of ontario.

C$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,738
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$433k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINNQUAG FOUNDATIONC$2,500
KAWARTHA LAKES FOOD SOURCEC$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KAWARTHA LAKESC$2,000
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADAC$1,738
WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF KAWARTHA LAKESC$1,700
A PLACE CALLED HOME RESIDENCEC$1,500
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF PETERBOROUGHC$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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$84k · 12 repeat orgsC$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

C$84k
C$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+124%
+65%

Still filing today

100%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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 Lakes Food Source
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +162%
  • AP
    A PLACE CALLED HOME RESIDENCE IN LINDSAY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +351%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF PETERBOROUGH, KAWARTHA LAKES, NORTHUMBE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • LL
    LDAP LEARNING DISABILITIES
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF PETERBOROUGH KAWARTHA LAKES NORTHUMBE
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KAWARTHA LAKES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +33%

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
Camp Kawartha Incorporated

Camp kawartha focuses on outdoor environmental awareness education and stewardship. operations at two facilities include summer camp programs curriculum-linked education programs corporate team building and facility rentals.

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2
Kenora & Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation

The Community Foundation is dedicated to help improve community living and the quality of life for citizens and visitors to Kenora and the Lake of the Woods Region. The Community Foundation aims to strengthen the communities in which we…

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3
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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4
Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes

The grove theatre project is building a community infrastructure space on property owned by the city of kawartha lakes for the purpose of providing theatre programs and community events. the fenelon falls horticultural fund is to fund the…

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5
Kawartha Land Trust

We envision a future where the kawartha region is characterized by natural spaces and connections that support healthy and representative ecocsystems and landscapes. our mission is 'caring for land entrusted to us and helping others…

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6
Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit Healthpromotion and Protection Fund

Promotion and protection of health individuals and families in the community of haliburton northumberland and the city of kawartha lakes

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7
The Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society

The society is responsible for the care and protection of children in the cities of peterborough and kawartha lakes as well as the counties of peterborough and haliburton as legislated under the child youth and family services act

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8
Kawartha Lakes Health Care Initiative

Recruitment and retention of family doctors for the city of kawartha lakes on

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9
Kawartha Food Share

Kawartha food share acts as a warehouse distribution centre for the city and county of peterborough. we provide food to 38 local agencies who operate food banks and agency food cupboards and meal programs. over 8 000 people use the…

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10
Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre

The organization provides support services for victims of sexual violence. services include a 24 hour crisis line individual and group counselling outreach counselling accompaniment and advocacy support for family partners and friends of…

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11
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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12
Algoma Community Foundation

Community foundations in canada are registered public charities that contribute to local initiatives by convening community actors around issues of local importance capacity building grant making information gathering and sharing

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Care Foundation (Kawartha Lakes) and the most unlike its peers is Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
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 budgetKawartha Lakes Food Source — C$15,521 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME RESIDENCE IN LINDSAY — C$12,198 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF PETERBOROUGH, KAWARTHA LAKES, NORTHUMBE — C$12,021 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCES OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$8,342 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKAWARTHA-HALIBURTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$6,021 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetROSS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,851 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADA — C$4,738 over 4y, 18% of budgetCommunity Care Foundation (Kawartha Lakes) — C$4,521 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$4,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR THE CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPINNQUAG FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KAWARTHA LAKES FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLEMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLINDSAY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSIR SANDFORD FLEMING COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$500 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.

The Kinsmen Club of L…Otto and Marie Pick F…Community Foundation …St. Paul's ChurchUnited Way Haliburton…Royal Canadian Legion…Hydro One Employees' …St Andrew's Presbyter…Congregation of the S…Presbyterian Women's …Ontario Realtors Care…Janetville Pastoral C…
The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay FoundationON14.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay Foundation · Otto and Marie Pick Foundation · Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes · St. Paul's Church · United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes · Royal Canadian Legion Lindsay on No 67 Sir Sam Hughes Branch · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society Western Division Bobcaygeon Auxiliary Bobcaygeon Presbyterian Church · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Janetville Pastoral Charge

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 26 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 892353962:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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