Ohsweken, ON · Charitable organization
The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund
Education advancement of the impact of residential school system and truth and reconcilliation between indigenous and non-indigenous communities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k22 grants · C$148k
- C$10k–50k21 grants · C$253k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$341k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC. | C$131,000 |
| SACRED FIRE PRODUCTIONS | C$105,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES FOR THE FUTURE SASKATOON INC. | C$105,000 |
| THE WINNIPEG ABORIGINAL FILM FESTIVAL | C$15,000 |
| THE ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR | C$15,000 |
| FORT MCKAY METIS NATION ASSOCIATION | C$15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$15,000 |
| MI'KMAW CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC. | C$14,600 |
| WOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE | C$14,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL DIVISION | C$14,000 |
| O'KANATA | C$13,450 |
| AXIS THEATRE COMPANY | C$13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$12,000 |
| ODEIWIN FOUNDATION | C$11,900 |
| ENAGB YOUTH PROGRAM | C$10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 34% of grant dollars (C$249k). The 66% that went abroad (C$493k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 66% of all-years giving (C$493k)
0 countries, 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.
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.
Icmi is an artist run multi-arts organization providing access to the arts for indigenous people in ontario. icmi provides professional development opportunities projects productions facilities and equipment to indigenous communities
First nations education foundation collaborates with first nation governments to develop language revitalization programs for at-risk indigenous dialects using contemporary educational practices and innovative interactive technology. this…
The centre for indigenous theatre is a contemporary performance training facility offering professional development opportunities for emerging and established indigenous theatre artists. we were the first and remain the only school of our…
Native women in the arts (canada) is a not-for-profit organization for first nations inuit and métis women and other indigenous gender marginalized people from diverse artistic disciplines who share a common interest in culture art…
Red sky is a dynamic company shaping contemporary aboriginal performances in theatre dance and music. it creates develops and produces original works connects world indigenous cultures and charts unexplored cultural links with peoples from…
Establishing a cultural centre for traditional aboriginal activities in pikwakanagan first nation. developing community programs for retention of language and culture. developing culturally appropriate curriculum
Cultural programs for first nations children
Programs include: business of the arts creative conncetions wood buffalo excellence in arts awards artist in residency suncor indigenous artist program alberta culture days rural arts support program seniors elders & the arts arts…
Films video audio and digital media screenings (all indigenous made). presentation are part of the annual festival (low cost and free); free gallery-based exhibitions; free workshops and panels open to the public; tour presentation of film…
Full circle: first nations performance society continued its charitable functions by conducting ongoing research creation presentation dissemination and public education on the cultural traditions and artworks of indigenous artists in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Road Lodge Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Fire Productions / Les Productions Feux Sacrés. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 SACRED FIRE PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE ↗
- Who funds AXIS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MANITOBA INUIT ASSOCIATION (IKAYUQTIIT) ↗
- Who funds TRIBE ARTIST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE CLAN ORGANIZATION INC. ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES RADIO ↗
- Who funds STRDALE WOMEN'S GROUP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YELLOWKNIFE EDUCATION DISTRICT NO. 1 ↗
- Who funds ENAGB YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT MCLAUGHLIN GALLERY ↗
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: Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada
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.