Bracebridge, ON · Private foundation
The John McConnell and Margaret Ann Wilson McConnell Memorial Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to providing health related assistance to persons in dire need and to providing educational bursaries to students enrolled in post-secondary school programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | C$6,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | C$4,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF MUSKOKA | C$3,000 |
| HOSPICE MUSKOKA | C$3,000 |
| MUSKOKA WOMEN'S ADVOCACY GROUP (INTERVAL | C$3,000 |
| GRAVENHURST AGAINST POVERTY | C$2,500 |
| WEST MUSKOKA FOOD BANK | C$2,500 |
| GEORGIAN BAY FOOD BANK | C$2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MUSKOKA | C$2,000 |
| HOSPICE HUNTSVILLE | C$1,500 |
| FOOD 4 KIDS - MUSKOKA | C$1,500 |
| LAKE OF BAYS WINTER PANTRY | C$1,500 |
| MACTIER FOOD BANK | C$1,500 |
| THE TABLE SOUP KITCHEN | C$1,500 |
| CHRISTINE'S P/ACE - GAVENHURST | C$500 |
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 +120% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- MFMANNA FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · C$26k · revenue +325%
- HMHOSPICE MUSKOKA7× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +871%
- MWMUSKOKA WOMEN'S ADVOCACY GROUP (INTERVAL HOUSE AND CHRYSALIS6× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- F4FOOD 4 KIDS - MUSKOKAone grant, 2024 · C$2k
- HHHOSPICE HUNTSVILLEone grant, 2024 · C$2k · revenue 0%
- CPCHRISTINE'S P/ACE - GAVENHURSTone grant, 2024 · C$500 · revenue 0%
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.
Assisting police and emergency services to meet the short term needs of victims of crime and tragic circumstances by providing emotional support practical assistance and referrals to community services.
Education and awareness of elder abuse and providing support for victims of elder abuse.
Youth services
MEALS ON WHEELS - Hot meals Frozen Meals Grocery Delivery - Coordinated by Staff delivered by Volunteers SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - Includes weekly social events with guest speakers topics and activities - Coordinated by Staff delivered by…
Food bank
Providing arts and craft programs for children purchasing library supplies maintaining library gardens educational lunches for seniors
Distributing food hampers to single persons and families in need.
The vision of the organization is to ensure muskoka's natural spaces are protected forever and to conserve nature in muskoka
Providing food hampers to individuals and families in need in the martensville and surrounding areas.
We exist to assist those in the musquodoboit valley area who are living with food insecurity. we aim to provide a weeks worth of food at each once-a-month visit. we provide shelf stable items along with fresh dairy eggs bread and meat. we…
Provide food and personal products to members of the community who are dealing with food insecurity. we are purely a volunteer organization.
To meet the immediate food needs for men women and children in the ponoka community and area who for reasonable reasons do not have sufficient funds to meet that need themselves
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Muskoka Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Christine's Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 MANNA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MUSKOKA ↗
- Who funds MUSKOKA WOMEN'S ADVOCACY GROUP (INTERVAL HOUSE AND CHRYSALIS ↗
- Who funds WEST MUSKOKA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MUSKOKA ↗
- Who funds THE TABLE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF MUSKOKA ↗
- Who funds FOOD 4 KIDS - MUSKOKA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE'S P/ACE - GAVENHURST ↗
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: Muskoka Community Foundation · Men of Grandview Foundation · Christ Church · The Muskoka Spiritualist Church · Bracebridge United Church · Bethune United Church · Rotary Club of Bracebridge Charitable Trust · Community Foundations of Canada · United Way Simcoe Muskoka · Boston Pizza Foundation · Toronto Foundation · 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.