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St Catharines, ON · Private foundation

The Fowler Family Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support charitable programs carried out by other local charities; primarily within the niagara region.

C$373k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$129k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$348k
C$117,800
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LIVING ST. CATHARINESC$129,000
REGIONAL ESSENTIAL ACCESS TO CONNECTED HEALTHCARE NIAGARAC$117,800
START ME UP NIAGARAC$101,000
PATHSTONE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 5 repeat orgsC$363k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • RE
    REGIONAL ESSENTIAL ACCESS TO CONNECTED HEALTHCARE NIAGARA
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$576k · revenue +367% · 48% of their budget
  • SM
    START ME UP NIAGARA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$523k · revenue +22%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIVING ST. CATHARINES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$476k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$70k · revenue +30%
  • QC
    QUEST COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · C$70k
  • HN
    HOSPICE NIAGARA
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +5%

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
Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch

Programs and services for the psychiatric community and their families. promotion of mental health public education on mental illness. client advocacy one-to-one support safe bed provision crisis intervention information and referral…

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2
Family Mental Health Support Network of Niagara

Coping skills workshops for families caring for someone with mental illness and individual counselling for those family members; mindfulness workshops; suicide awareness workshops.

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3
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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4
Community Addiction Services of Niagara

Assessment referral and outpatient counselling for niagara region residents with substance abuse and gambling problems and their families

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5
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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6
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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7
Niagara Children's Centre

The centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges

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8
Niagara North Family Health Team

The niagara north family health team offers our patients a team approach to health care. our team includes patients family doctors social workers dietitians nurses nurse practitioners as well as a physician assistant respiratory therapist…

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9
Niagara Falls Community Health Centre Inc.

NFCHC responds to the health needs of individual patients and their families as well as to the health concerns of the community in Niagara Falls and the surrounding Niagara Region. Focus on improving the health and well-being of priority…

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10
West Niagara Second Stage Housing & Counselling Inc

Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.

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11
Community Palliative Care & Wellness (Niagara-On-the-Lake)

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…

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12
Contact Niagara for Children's and Developmental Services

Contact niagara for children's and developmental services is a community based agency that provides a central informaton and referral access point for children and youth ages 0-18 who are experiencing emotional behavioural and /or…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Start Me Up Niagara and the most unlike its peers is Pathstone Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREGIONAL ESSENTIAL ACCESS TO CONNECTED HEALTHCARE NIAGARA — C$575,564 over 6y, 48% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$523,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING ST. CATHARINES — C$476,200 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPATHSTONE FOUNDATION — C$305,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWELLSPRING NIAGARA — C$132,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetQUEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$70,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOSPICE NIAGARA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST.CATHARINES — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAutism Society Ontario — C$40,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWheels of Hope Niagara — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKristen French Child Advocacy Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraWise Guys Charity FundThe Ontario Paper Tho…Silver Spire United C…Niagara Region Police…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…The Branscombe Family…Ctfs Employees' Chari…The Guelph Community …Rotary Club of Wellan…Youth and Philanthrop…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON13.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Silver Spire United Church · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · The Guelph Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Welland Crippled Childrens Trust · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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 13 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 2024-09-30, 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 119240299:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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