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Sharon, ON · Private foundation

The Kelson Family Foundation

Activity started in march 2024 with the purpose of donating to qualified donors.

C$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$63k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$912k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANDREWS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$37,500
SOUTHLAKE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SOUTHLAKE FOUNDATIONC$3,455
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$252k · 3 repeat orgsC$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

C$252k
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
83%

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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • SR
    SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$154k · revenue +17%
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · C$58k · revenue +6%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$40k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -65%
  • HG
    HOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k · revenue +522%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HEALTH CRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue -2%

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
Cambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation

The cambridge memorial hospital foundation fundraises for cambridge memorial hospital. grants are given to the hospital to assist with the acquistion of equipment renovations to the infrastructure and the continuing education of its staff.

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2
South Huron Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for improvement of health care services in the area served by south huron hospital

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3
St. Marys Healthcare Foundation

To maintain a fund to enhance or improve patient services for st. marys memorial hospital. the foundation works with the community to raise funds for major renovations special projects equipment and education for st. marys memorial…

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4
The Belleville General Hospital Foundation Incorporated

Bghf donates funds to quinte healthcare corporation belleville general and north hastings sites to purchase medical equipment finance develpment of new hospital facilities and support healthcare programs. bghf also manages restricted…

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5
Campbellford Memorial Hospital Foundation

The foundation continued to support all elements of the campbellford healthcare campus by funding various on-going activities and capital campaigns to fund medical equipment purchases.

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6
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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7
Brant Community Healthcare System Foundation

Fund raised are for designated and capital projects and patient equipment for the brant community healthcare system brantford general hospital and the willett hospital sites

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8
The Georgetown Hospital Foundation

Donates funds to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the georgetown hospital site

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9
The Saint Vincent's Nursing Home Foundation

The foundation provides financial support to the saint vincent's nursing home for new or expanded facilities and to fund current activities.

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10
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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11
Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundation

Funding of hospital equipment and support health oriented groups

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12
Brockville and District Hospital Foundation

Support renovations new construction and capital equipment purchases of the brockville general hospital.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Canadian Canoe 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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 budgetSOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$153,880 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetST ANDREWS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$57,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$40,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH CRE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOMBERG AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$1,000 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.

BenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Strategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…United Way East Ontar…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
BenefAction FoundationON8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 9 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 2024-02-28, 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 827653635:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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