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Elora, ON · Private foundation

The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundation

C$320k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$120k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Township of ChatsworthC$200,000
Blue Water District School BoardC$20,000
My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis CentreC$20,000
Reach Centre Grey BruceC$10,000
The Women's Centre Grey BruceC$10,000
Grey Bruce Hospice IncC$10,000
Last Chance Horse and Pony RescueC$10,000
The Salvation ArmyC$10,000
Owen Sound Hunger and Relief EffortC$10,000
Safe 'N Sound ResidenceC$10,000
Canadian Mental Health Association Grey BruceC$10,000
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 13 repeat orgsC$253k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+32%

Still filing today

92%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CH
    CHELSEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$275k · revenue +7% · 38% of their budget
  • TR
    THE REACH CENTRE GREY/BRUCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$83k · revenue +15%
  • RH
    RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE GREY BRUCE INC.
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$80k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +83%
  • HR
    HAV/AIDS RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · C$60k · revenue -4%
  • MA
    MUNCIPALITY - ARRAN-ELDERLSIE
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k

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
Home and Community Support Services of Grey-Bruce

Meals on wheels frozen meals transportation adult day programs community dementia program community stroke program overnight respite housekeeping in-home respite friendly visiting

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2
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey

Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with…

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3
G & B House

To provide a home like environment and counselling for men with substance abuse problems. Residents are referred to G & B House by various organizations throughout Ontario, mainly in Grey and Bruce Counties. G&B House attempts to assist…

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4
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Specialized mental health hospital providing tertiary care mental health programs for inpatients and outpatients. - operates satellite locations in the community and through other regional programs and partnerships. in all programs ontario…

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5
South Bruce Grey Health Centre

South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) is a dynamic multi-site health care organization serving four rural communities in southern Grey and Bruce Counties. Each of our hospital sites offer acute care services a 24-7 emergency department…

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6
Victim Services Bruce Grey

Victim crisis assistance in grey bruce and perth counties

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7
Community Living Owen Sound and District

The organization provides services to assist individuals with development needs to live work and participate in our community as equal and valued partners. We provide residential and day programs.

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8
Brantwood Residential Development Centre

Brantwood provides residental and support services to individuals who are severely and profoundly developmentally and physically challenged. utilizing group home settings within the community brantwood provides and supervises activities of…

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9
Participation Lodge - Grey Bruce

Residential assisted living services/supported housing community support services acquired brain injury residential housing fundraising and corporate development community

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10
Grey Bruce Animal Shelter

Grey bruce animal shelter is a charitable organization dedicated to the provision of animal shelter services to meet the needs of homeless animals.

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11
Georgian Bay General Hospital

Public hospital inpatient and outpatient services diagnostic and therapeutic services ccc/rehab palliative and emergency

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12
St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital

Provider of specialized care in aging mental health and rehabilitation

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce and the most unlike its peers is Owen Sound Hunger Relief Effort. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
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 budgetCHELSEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$275,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE REACH CENTRE GREY/BRUCE — C$82,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetRESIDENTIAL HOSPICE GREY BRUCE INC. — C$80,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DONKEY SANCTUARY OF CANADA — C$70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLAST CHANCE HORSE AND PONY RESCUE — C$60,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetHAV/AIDS RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY HEALTH — C$60,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBlue Water District School Board — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOWEN SOUND HUNGER RELIEF EFFORT — C$50,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION GREY BRUCE — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMY FRIEND'S HOUSE COLLINGWOOD CRISIS CENTRE — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTRE (GREY & BRUCE) INC. — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE HAVEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTRE — C$22,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSafe 'N Sound Residence — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetREADING RESCUE ONTARIO INC — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetLUTHERWOOD CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 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.

Community Foundation …The Markdale Rotary C…United Way of Bruce G…Sun-Times - Cfos Chri…Canada GivesSt Andrew's Presbyter…The James Goreski Pri…The Eva Leflar Founda…Youth and Philanthrop…Kilsyth United ChurchSt Philip's ChurchHolland Centre Pastor…
Community Foundation Grey BruceON16× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Grey Bruce · The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trust · United Way of Bruce Grey · Sun-Times - Cfos Christmas Fund · Canada Gives · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church · The James Goreski Private Foundation · The Eva Leflar Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Kilsyth United Church · St Philip's Church · Holland Centre Pastoral Charge

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 21 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 2024-08-31, 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 761437128:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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