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Chatham, ON · Private foundation

The Howard J. Rees Foundation

$30 000 contributed to support blenheim & district ministerial association.

C$114k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$95k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUNICIPALITY OF CHATHAM-KENTC$40,000
CHATHAM-KENT PUBLIC EDUCATION STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATIONC$23,150
SAIL CANADAC$16,390
WORD OF LIFE CHURCHC$15,000
CHATHAM-KENT HOSPICE FOUNDATIONC$6,000
ROTARY CLUB OF BLENHEIMC$5,000
BLENHEIM & DISTRICT MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
IODE KENT REGIMENT CHAPTERC$3,000
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$641k · 16 repeat orgsC$405k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

C$641k
C$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • WO
    WORD OF LIFE CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$59k · revenue +105%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF BLENHEIM
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$56k · revenue +282%
  • CH
    CHATHAM-KENT HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · C$45k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHATHAM-KENT ALL FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2019 · C$115k
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TREATMENT CENTRE OF CHATHAM -KENTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +28%
  • RA
    RIDGETOWN AREA ADULT ACTIVITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$75k · revenue -78%

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
Ridgetown Kiwanis Club Foundation

Support for chatham-kent hospital foundation scholarship

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2
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

The organization provide a full range of hospital services including 24 hour emergency service.

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3
Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres

Health promotion programs such as: medical care counselling health promotion diabetes program ect.

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4
Linck Child Youth & Family Supports Foundation

To maintain funds and apply these funds for charitable purposes for children and youth in chatham-kent.

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5
Chatham - Kent Health Alliance Helping Hands Auxiliary

The auxilliary operates a retail gift shop in the chatham site of the chatham-kent health alliance. the net proceeds are used to support the community.

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6
Chatham Sports Hall of Fame

Exists for the purpose of recognizing idividuals/teams of the community for their contributions to sports. a yearly banquet is held.

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7
Crime Prevention and Safety Board Chatham-Kent
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8
Chatham-Kent Student Breakfast Programs

Our program is to assist in starting and maintaining student nutrition program in the schools in chatham-kent. we garner funds to enable programs to function and purchase food and equipment. we assist in arranging for volunteers and…

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9
Kent Historical Society

Guest speakers/historical placques ghost/spirit walks promotion of chatnam-kent history

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10
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent Public Library Board

Chatham-kent public library provides educational cultural recreational and informational opportunities and resources at eleven branch locations. support for lifelong learning is at the core of all library activities which include: a…

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11
Learning Disabilities Association of Chatham-Kent

We provided after-school and summer tutoring social skills training and soar (transition to secondary school). over 50 volunteers assist with the programs and contribute over 1000 hours. we provide information and referral services for…

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12
Chatham Outreach for Hunger Inc.

The organization operates a food bank for local residents of the municipality of chatham-kent

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blenheim and District Freedom Library and Museum. 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

21 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. 21 of the 28 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
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 budgetCHATHAM-KENT PUBLIC EDUCATION STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUND — C$169,150 over 6y, 77% of budgetCHILDREN'S TREATMENT CENTRE OF CHATHAM -KENT — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRIDGETOWN AREA ADULT ACTIVITY CENTRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetWORD OF LIFE CHURCH — C$59,300 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BLENHEIM — C$55,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetCHATHAM-KENT HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHATHAM-KENT HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHATHAN-KENT ANIMAL RESCUE — C$25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBLENHEIM & DISTRICT MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — C$18,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetBLENHEIM & DISTRICT FREEDOM LIBRARY — C$16,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetMAPLE CITY CENTRE FOR OLDER ADULTS — C$12,367 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIODE — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BLENHEIM AND DISTRICT — C$10,581 over 2y, 27% of budgetYMCA'S ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN ONTARION — C$7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM KENT CHILDRENS SERVICES — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S RESIDENCE — C$6,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlenheim Youth Centre — C$5,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF RONDEAU PARK — C$5,050 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetIODE KENT REGIMENT CHAPTER — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREE CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Chatham Kent Communit…United Way of Chatham…McGeachy Charitable F…Blenheim Baptist Chur…Ursuline Religious of…Vancouver FoundationMy Tribute Gift Found…Strategic Charitable …United Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Aqueduct Foundation
Chatham Kent Community FoundationON19.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chatham Kent Community Foundation · United Way of Chatham-Kent · McGeachy Charitable Foundation · Blenheim Baptist Church · Ursuline Religious of the Diocese of London in Ontario · Vancouver Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation

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 28 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 2023-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 105219638:2023-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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