Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Charles & Florence Martin Foundation
The foundation will be a granting foundation providing contributions to qualified donees primarily in the niagara region of ontario within the limits of the trust indenture.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$63k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | C$22,200 |
| THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE | C$16,000 |
| HOTEL DIEU SHAVER HEALTH AND REHABILITATION FOUNDATION | C$12,400 |
| HOSPICE NIAGARA | C$12,400 |
| THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND | C$10,000 |
| THE SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF NIAGARA | C$8,600 |
| ST ANDREW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH | C$8,600 |
| CANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM CITY OF HAMILTON & DISTRICT | C$8,600 |
| WEST NIAGARA PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES | C$8,000 |
| GRIMSBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | C$7,000 |
| GRIMSBY MUSEUM | C$5,200 |
| MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE | C$5,000 |
| HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| UNITED WAY NIAGARA | C$5,000 |
| NELLES MANOR HERITAGE HOUSE | C$2,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +147% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- TSTHE SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF NIAGARA8× · 2017–2024 · C$112k · revenue ×123
- NFNIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES6× · 2017–2024 · C$81k · revenue +170%
- HDHOTEL DIEU SHAVER HEALTH & REHAB FDN8× · 2017–2024 · C$81k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CACANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · C$3k
- GHGREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHAREone grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +21%
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.
Mcnally hospice foundation’s primary purpose is to receive and maintain funds to support palliative care in niagara west.
Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.
North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…
Improving health care and the quality of life in the community by growing and maintaining donor support for the northumberland hills hospital
Supporting Hospice palliative care programs in Ontario
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…
Notl community palliative care services offers services through volunteers designed to comfort and support individuals and families who are living with a life threatening illness or suffering bereavement. these services are offered in the…
The foundation provides support programs and services for people and their families living with cancer. the foundation provides opportunities for the development of self-help skills leading to an enhanced quality of life. the foundation…
Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…
The alzheimer society niagara foundation is strongly committed to financially sustaining the service needs of the alzheimer society of niagara region in ways that are positive meaningful and engaging.
Donate funds for breast cancer research and detection and cancer support services
The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Owl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 THE SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOTEL DIEU SHAVER HEALTH & REHAB FDN ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEV FUND ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds WEST NIAGARA PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds WEST LINCOLN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSIST PROGRAM CITY OF HAMILTON & DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds GRIMSBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds ST. MATTHEW'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE OWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NELLES MANOR HERITAGE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHARE ↗
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: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · United Way Niagara · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Fleming Foundation · Rotary Club of St Catherines South Charitable Trust · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Hamilton Community 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.