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Winnipeg, MB · Private foundation

The Cheerful Foundation Inc.

The foundation makes gifts to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the ita.

C$499k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$112k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$180k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$279k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FOR CHRISTC$112,000
GREAT COMMISSIONC$66,500
PROVIDENCE COLLEGEC$50,000
BRIERCREST COLLEGEC$50,000
EQUIP CANADAC$30,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILYC$30,000
TEEN CHALLENGEC$30,000
LINDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$25,000
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETYC$25,000
LIVEDIFFERENTC$15,000
LAKE NUTIMIK BAPTIST CAMP INCC$15,000
ASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVATORYC$10,000
SILOAM MISSIONC$5,000
UNION GOSPELC$5,000
DOMINICAN VISION INCC$5,000
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.3M · 29 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
36

Total granted

C$2.3M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$271k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    GREAT COMMISSION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$210k · revenue +5% · 50% of their budget
  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$180k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TC
    TAYLOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGE & SEMINARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$350k · revenue -33%
  • JS
    JOY SMITH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$105k · revenue +35%
  • IC
    INNER CITY YOUTH ALIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue +52%

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
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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2
AngelOne Canada

Conducts missionary work in the developing countries

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3
Children International Canada

Children international canada carries out its charitable activities for the purpose of breaking generational poverty for the children they serve. this is done by delivering high-impact programs in four crucial areas: health education…

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4
Christ's Hope International- Canada

Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…

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5
Teen Missions in Canada Inc.

Establishment of missionary projects involving canadian teenagers throughout the world.

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6
Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Inc.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Manitoba supports the international relief development and peace…

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7
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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8
Medical Ministry International

Medical Ministry International has been providing spiritual and compassionate health care in this world of need. Medical Ministry International has made lasting impact in 41 countries from addressing medical and surgical needs of…

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9
Salaam Ministries

Educational programs in canada and around the world equipping and releasing believers to make disciples of jesus.

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10
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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11
Global Harvest Ministries International

Global harvest ministries carries out missionary evangelism to north africa middle east and south east asia. it meets some relief and development needs in these countries thru skills training programs community assistance and education. it…

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12
International Teams Canada Inc.

We bring together church partners and local leaders through long-term transformational development programs in which lives and communities move towards the fullness of life characterized by dignity justice hope and peace. In the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Great Commission Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Providence University College and Theological Seminary. 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

64 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. 64 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTAYLOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGE & SEMINARY — C$350,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$270,800 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGREAT COMMISSION — C$210,100 over 2y, 50% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE — C$180,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY — C$175,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEDEN FOUNDATION — C$156,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — C$152,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBRIERCREST COLLEGE — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEQUIP CANADA — C$140,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLAKE NUTIMIK BAPTIST CAMP INC. — C$117,060 over 2y, 11% of budgetASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVATORY — C$111,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOY SMITH FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTOBA CENTRE — C$105,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH ALIVE — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLINDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTREAL STATION COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$62,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOMINICAN VISION INC — C$55,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetABUNDANCE CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCPS MANITOBA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPIONEERS CANADA — C$47,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCROSSROADS — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE NUTIMIK BAPTIST CAMP INC — C$30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMANITOBA THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDASHIR COMMUNITY PROJECTS — C$25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetST. BONIFACE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRUCE OAKE MEMORIAL FOOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHSC FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAR CORNERS MINISTRY — C$18,850 over 1y, 12% of budgetSILOAM MISSION — C$18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH BEYOND — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVEDIFFERENT — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES CANADA — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUTURN PARKINSONS — C$10,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSQUARE ONE MEDIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDASCH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCMU — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLA ROSA — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE TABLE — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS CHEER BOARD — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWINNIPEG HARVEST — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT MINISTRIES — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Giftpact Foundation I…Wellington West Found…The Jewish Foundation…The Winnipeg Foundati…Thomas Sill Foundatio…The Asper FoundationThe Cardinal Foundati…Abundance CanadaAll Charities CampaignThe Gail Asper Family…The Bill and Margaret…Reimer Express Founda…
Giftpact Foundation Inc.MB20.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Wellington West Foundation Inc. · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Winnipeg Foundation · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation · The Cardinal Foundation · Abundance Canada · All Charities Campaign · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · The Bill and Margaret Fast Family Foundation Inc. · Reimer Express Foundation Inc.

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 67 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 702123472:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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