Welland, ON · Private foundation
The Edith and Bernard Ennis Foundation
Provide donations to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$20k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY | C$20,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | C$20,000 |
| PINE RIVER FOUNDATION | C$15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION (IDRF) | C$10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CANADA-UIA | C$7,800 |
| INTER PARES | C$5,000 |
| NIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTER | C$2,500 |
| MA'MO'WEH WII'SON'KA'TWIN FOUNDATION | C$2,500 |
| RAINBOW RAILROAD | C$2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 78% of grant dollars (C$830k). The 22% that went abroad (C$229k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 22% of all-years giving (C$229k)
1 country, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- PRPINE RIVER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +82%
- TCTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · C$65k · revenue +70%
- MCMAKEWAY CHARTIABLE SOCIETY3× · 2021–2024 · C$60k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BUBRANDES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · C$25k
- MCMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · C$20k
- SFSTRAFORD FESTIVALone grant, 2019 · C$5k · 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.
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Aqueduct Foundation is an independent cause-neutral foundation with donor advised legacy and charity funds. The Foundation's mission is to facilitate personal philanthropy which it carries out by making grants to Canadian qualified donees…
Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…
Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…
The Foundation provided grants to registered charities that seek to advance gender equality through public educational programs and social services.
The foundation provides support to various registered charitable organizations.
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The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…
Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…
The foundation continues to support various other charities that provide health welfare and educational assistance to canadians.
The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Narayever Congregation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 40 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CANADA - UIA ↗
- Who funds PINE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKEWAY CHARTIABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTER PARES ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CANOE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION (IDRF) ↗
- Who funds PATHSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST NARAYEVER CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds STRAFORD FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KENSINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART AFRICA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF GREATER VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds FINCA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Centre for Learning and Living-Thornhill Woods Shul ↗
- Who funds COPA ↗
- Who funds TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON SOCIETY CANADA ↗
- Who funds The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation ↗
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: BenefAction Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Toronto Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Link Charity Canada Inc · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation
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.