Newmarket, ON · Private foundation
The Donald G Spiers Charitable Foundation
The foundation provides grants to canadian registered charities such as churches and mission organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$27k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSIDE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH | C$24,000 |
| ENGAGE TODAY | C$14,500 |
| GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC. | C$8,500 |
| COMPASSION CANADA | C$6,000 |
| NORTHERN CANADA EVANGELICAL MISSION INC. | C$5,000 |
| POWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES | C$5,000 |
| MUSKOKA BIBLE FOUNDATION | C$1,100 |
| SAFE FAMILIES CANADA | C$1,100 |
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 +24% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 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
- HEHILLSIDE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH6× · 2018–2024 · C$132k · revenue +6%
- GOGLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC.6× · 2018–2024 · C$33k · revenue +24%
- PTPOWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES7× · 2018–2024 · C$27k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- VBVictory Baptist Churchone grant, 2017 · C$34k · revenue -15%
- HEHILLSIDE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · C$23k
- ETENGAGE TODAYone grant, 2023 · C$14k
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.
1. teaching and preaching 2. church planting 3. outreach 4. discipleship
Preaching the gospel through broadcasting TV programs Printed publications Emergency Relief Media evangelism Campaigns
To promote Christian Education world-wide in order to help make disciples of Jesus Christ and to educate the church in North America about cultures by creating opportunities for them to interact to actively participate in meeting people's…
Programs are designed to preach teach and support an outreach initiative in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Christian bible.
Missionary training -bible studies
We teach the Word of God and provide Christian education. We communicate by telephone, e-mail and other means, with pastors and ministry leaders in foreign countries as well as in Canada. We write articles, such as devotional materials,…
Preach the gospel of our lord jesus christ. the bible being the only and all-sufficient rule of faith and practice conduct evangelistic programs at home and abroad establish programs to propagate the gospel message of salvation promote…
Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations
1. Held Christian conferences to educate and raise awareness of children at risk and to raise funds for aid programs.
Promote the Christian faith through church planting preaching/teaching in local churches teaching in bible schools serve as a Christian denomination registered in the Province of Ontario.
Programs directed at supporting the christian church as follows: 1) printing and distributing bibles and other religious materials to churches 2) providing basic necessities for christian churches and ministries such as food and clothing…
1. charity aired religious services on television in canada. 2. administers live religious services. 3. provides prayer counselling. 4. participates in the circulation of religion printed matter and dvds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Canada Evangelical Mission Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Hillside Evangelical Missionary Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 HILLSIDE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE TODAY ↗
- Who funds Victory Baptist Church ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC. ↗
- Who funds POWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CANADA EVANGELICAL MISSION INC. ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION CANADA ↗
- Who funds MUSKOKA BIBLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES CANADA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Canadahelps Canadon
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.