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Saskatoon, SK · Private foundation

The Brownlee Family Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from the brownlee family and makes donations to other regustered charities and other qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada).

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$550k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$325k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$950k
C$200,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$550,000
SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$400,000
25TH STREET THEATRE CENTRE INCC$200,000
HAVEN FAMILY CONNECTIONSC$75,000
WANUSKEWIN HERITAGE PARK AUTHORITYC$50,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.6M · 8 repeat orgsC$3.0M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

C$7.6M
C$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+116%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$550k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
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

  • SP
    SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$5.8M · revenue +548%
  • SF
    Saskatoon Friendship Inn
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$410k · revenue +122%
  • SC
    SASKATOON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · C$333k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • Y
    YWCAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$2.0M · revenue +116% · 34% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$175k
  • CM
    Canadian Museum of History
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k

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
City of Saskatoon

Library Services including education cultural and recreational programing.

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2
Saskatoon Regional Health Authority

We operate a health delivery system providing a full range of health care services to residents of the Saskatoon Health Region and other residents of Saskatchewan. Services are provided in hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary…

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3
United Way of Saskatoon and Area

United Way mission is to improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action. United Way invests resources into programs services and community building activities that have an emphasis on addressing…

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4
Saskatchewan Health Authority

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is responsible for the delivery of high quality and timely health care for all the people across the province. The SHA has approximately 40 000 employees and 2 770 physicians who provide services to…

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5
Saskatchewan Indigenous Community Foundation
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6
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…

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7
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies

Saskatchewan indian institute of technologies is a post-secondary educational institute with an emphasis on the training education and employment development of first nations adults. programming is provided in the areas of academic…

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8
Saskatoon Student Wellness Initiative Toward Community Health Inc.

The mission of the organization is to establish and maintain a student driven interdisciplinary health centre to provide integrated and timely health care services to saskatoon's core neighbourhoods

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9
The Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory Corporation
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10
Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.

Provide grants to qualified donees. Promote legacy giving and charitable giving.

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11
Saskatoon Trades and Skills Centre Inc.

Saskatoon trades and skills centre inc. addresses the needs of saskatoon and are employers for skilled workers by offering courses to prepare youth and young adults for employment and career opportunities in the trades.

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12
Nest Saskatoon
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Saskatoon Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/Conseil De Direction De L'armÉE Du Salut Du Canada. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
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 budgetSASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$5,765,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetYWCA — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$550,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatoon Friendship Inn — C$410,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSASKATOON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$333,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSASKATOON FOOD BANK INCORPORATED — C$310,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$310,000 over 3y, 89% of budget25TH STREET THEATRE CENTRE INC — C$300,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHAVEN FAMILY CONNECTIONS — C$125,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWANUSKEWIN HERITAGE PARK AUTHORITY — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSASKATOON PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION INC. — C$25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Regina — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanctum Care Group Inc. — C$2,000 over 1y, 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.

United Way of Saskato…Saskatoon Community F…Our Lady of the Prair…The Kpmg Foundation/L…The Stephen and Miche…Raymond James Canada …Shoppers Foundation f…Private Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationAbundance CanadaRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct Foundation
United Way of Saskatoon and AreaSK12.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · The Stephen and Michelene Worobetz Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Abundance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation

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 16 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 837180918:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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