Saskatoon, SK · Private foundation
The Canadian Bridge Federation Charitable Fund
Make grants to canadian charities as a rsult of receiving funds from bridge games held in canadian bridge clubs and at canadian bridge tournaments
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE | C$1,500 |
| CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS | C$1,500 |
| CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION HALIFAX BRANCH | C$1,500 |
| KIRKFIELD WESTWOOD CONNUITY CENTRE INC. | C$500 |
| MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC. | C$500 |
| THRIVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT CIRCLE INC. | C$500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 24% of grant dollars (C$20k). The 76% that went abroad (C$65k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 76% of all-years giving (C$65k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.
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
- CMCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS2× · 2020–2022 · C$2k
- EMEDMONTON MEALS ON WHEELS2× · 2020–2022 · C$2k
- ASALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA & NEW BRUNSWICK2× · 2019–2020 · C$2k
Funded once
- CRCANADIAN RED CROSS (UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS)one grant, 2022 · C$10k
- CHCanada Helps - North York Seniors Centregraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +223%
- ASAlzheimer Society of Canadagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Silver harbour seniors' activity centre's mission is to help seniors thrive by offering a wide range of programs services and connections. we offer more than 70 recreational programs and services for local seniors.
Health & fitness - exercise & info sessions on health & senior topics social programs - meals crafts games library painting class grandma & grandpa swim program - intergenerational community program
The gloucester 50+ centre provides social recreational programming both in-person and virtually for seniors in the city of ottawa. our programming includes a wide variety of programs such as painting classes exercise classes tai chi darts…
Multi-purpose facility for seniors providing and services to foster social interaction and enhance the lifestyle of seniors in the area. programs include; bingo musical entertainment and dancing luncheons cards book exchange fitness and…
Programs for seniors including: cultural groups heart health fitness arts and crafts dancercise painting yoga pickleball and wellness programs.
Programs are designed to promote health and well being of seniors bases on new stalls social interactions and exercises. These include knitting bridge darts board games line dancing Yoga Tai Chi theater singing and others.
The Centre provides activities information and support to over 2000 seniors (persons ages 55+). We offer social support programs instructor led activities (physical educational and leisure both in person & online) a community cafe program…
Activities for seniors
Seniors' dinners social events exercise classes dances workshops
Billiards book club board games cards choir crafts aerobics strength training sit & fit pickleball darts dupliciate bridge floor and table shuffleboard garden and nature club line dancing scrabble table tennis walkabout and yoga
Social and recreational programs for senior citizens including crafts exercise day trips card games telephone security calls home visits safety and health seminars lunch gatherings.
1. active living centre: provides recreational and social programs for seniors including multicultural activities; health programs; foot care; income tax assistance; computer training; dancing; physical exercises; educational program and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morden Senior Citizens Friendship Centre Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Canadahelps Canadon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 83 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Canada Helps - North York Seniors Centre ↗
- Who funds Alzheimer Society of Canada ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION HALIFAX BRANCH ↗
- Who funds CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Creative Retirement Manitoba ↗
- Who funds Hospice Halifax ↗
- Who funds MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC. ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada) · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Winnipeg Foundation · All Charities Campaign · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift 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.