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Niagara Falls, ON · Private foundation

The Branscombe Family Foundation

The foundation carries on an extensive scholarship program.

C$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total C$2,530,626 — the rows itemised in this filing. The C$2,652,620 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining C$121,994 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$296k
  • C$50k–250k23 grants · C$1.7M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
C$67,235
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$500,000
WOMEN'S PLACE ST CATHARINES & DISTRICT GILLIAN'S PLACEC$117,287
BIRCHWAY NIAGARA (WOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA)C$104,625
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION NIAGARA BRANCHC$90,400
COMMUNITY CARE ST CATHARINES & THOROLDC$90,000
WEST LINCOLN COMMUNITY CAREC$90,000
YWCA NIAGARA REGIONC$90,000
COMMUNITY LIVING GRIMSBY LINCOLN & WEST LINCOLNC$85,000
WESTVIEW CENTRE 4 WOMENC$85,000
REACH NIAGARAC$80,000
THE RESOURCE ASSOCIATION FOR TEENSC$80,000
ARID GROUP HOMESC$76,408
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTH & WEST NIAGARAC$75,000
START ME UP NIAGARAC$70,750
ST BARNABAS ANGLICAN CHURCH (ANGLICANS IN ACTION)C$70,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.6M · 41 repeat orgsC$806k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
10

Total granted

C$7.6M
C$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+54%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$451k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22’23’24
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

  • NH
    NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$598k · revenue ×17
  • PF
    Pathstone Foundation
    2× · 2017–2022 · C$578k · revenue +68%
  • WP
    WOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA NOVA HOUSE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$433k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • RR
    RED ROOF RETREAT
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +9%
  • YR
    YOUTH RESOURCES NIAGARAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$83k · revenue +54%
  • NR
    NIAGARA REGION EXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · 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
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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2
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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3
Niagara Children's Centre

The centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges

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4
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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5
West Niagara Second Stage Housing & Counselling Inc

Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.

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6
Niagara Training and Employment Agency Inc.

Provision of employment oriented training programs for persons with developmental disabilities in the niagara region. also provide an out of home respite program with developmental disabilities.

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7
Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc.

Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc. provides community based rehabilitation services to persons living with the affects of an acquired brain injury. Services include supportive housing friendly visiting personal care life skills…

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8
Foundation of Resources for Teens of West Niagara

The following services to youth: well balanced meals offered daily; community service hours; guidance in making healthy choices; access to computers; job finding support; positive peer interaction; community referrals; crisis intervention;…

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9
Niagara Support Services

Provision of adult residential services day programs family support autism classroom preschool and intervenor services for persons with developmental disabilities.

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10
Community Support Services of Niagara Region

Meals on wheels congregate dining volunteer transportation visiting and social safety service arrangements and coordination homemaking fall prevention and wellness supportive housing

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11
Contact Niagara for Children's and Developmental Services

Contact niagara for children's and developmental services is a community based agency that provides a central informaton and referral access point for children and youth ages 0-18 who are experiencing emotional behavioural and /or…

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12
Down Syndrome Niagara
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Resource Service for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Westview Christian Fellowship. 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

52 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. 52 of the 59 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
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 budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$598,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPathstone Foundation — C$578,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetWOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA NOVA HOUSE — C$433,291 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE ST CATHARINES & THOROLD — C$360,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetARID GROUP HOMES — C$355,851 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE RESOURCE ASSOCIATION FOR TEENS — C$320,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY NIAGARA — C$315,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION NIAGARA BRANCH — C$300,346 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT SHARE — C$299,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWOMEN'S PLACE ST. CATHARINES & DISTRICT GILLIAN'S PLACE — C$298,287 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetYWCA NIAGARA REGION — C$240,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREACH NIAGARA — C$210,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWESTVIEW CENTRE 4 WOMEN — C$210,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTH & WEST NIAGARA — C$190,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetST BARNABAS ANGLICAN CHURCH (ANGLICANS IN ACTION) — C$190,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetYMCA OF NIAGARA — C$185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KRISTEN FRENCH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE NIAGARA — C$175,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$167,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$147,377 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWEST LINCOLN COMMUNITY CARE — C$140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA — C$125,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetSouthridge Shelter (Southridge Community Church) — C$123,200 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIONS DOUGLAS HEIGHTS HEIGHTS SENIORS RESIDENCE — C$117,235 over 2y, 54% of budgetPATHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — C$112,548 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS NIAGARA FALLS & NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — C$102,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRED ROOF RETREAT — C$100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH (THE SOUP KITCHEN) — C$92,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA REGION — C$86,706 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetGROW COMMUNITY FOOD LITERACY CENTRE — C$85,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING GRIMSBY LINCOLN & WEST LINCOLN — C$85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH RESOURCES NIAGARA — C$83,334 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NIAGARA — C$79,806 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetLINKS FOR GREENER LEARNING — C$71,893 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetST JOHN AMBULANCE — C$70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFACS NIAGARA — C$66,667 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFAMILY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT NETWORK NIAGARA — C$54,400 over 2y, 51% of budgetCommunity Living Port Colborne-Waifleet — C$50,787 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG CARERS ASSOCIATION — C$50,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSTRIVE NIAGARA — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHORSE SENSE FOR KIDS — C$43,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND (NIAGARA PROJECT) — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA REGION EXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE — C$40,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCommunity Living Fort Erie — C$35,356 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPELHAM CARES — C$35,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetFAITH WELLAND OUTREACH — C$30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNIAGARA SAFETY VILLAGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPort Cares — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHannah House Maternity Home — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraWise Guys Charity FundCtfs Employees' Chari…The Ontario Paper Tho…United Way of South N…Niagara Region Police…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…United Way of Niagara…St. Andrew's United C…Barterpay It Forward …Stamford Lane United …
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON36.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · United Way of South Niagara · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie · St. Andrew's United Church · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · Stamford Lane 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 59 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 119217057:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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