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Tantallon, NS · Private foundation

The Lorraine MacDonald Family Foundation

Donations were made to qualified charities who fed the poor sheltered people and to charity support and information organizations.

C$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
C$6,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul - Hope CottageC$20,000
Inner City Loaves and Fishes (Sydney Nova Scotia)C$7,000
Tearmann Society for Abused WomenC$6,000
Transition House FoundationC$6,000
Philanthropic FoundationCanadaC$1,000
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$195k · 5 repeat orgsC$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$195k
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • LA
    Loaves and Fishes - Inner City Churches of Sydney
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$56k · revenue +67%
  • TS
    Tearmann Society for Abused Women
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$28k · revenue +32%
  • PF
    Philanthropic Foundations Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • BO
    Board of Governers, St Francis Xavier University
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +12%
  • DW
    Doctors Without Borders/Medecins San Frontieres
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k · revenue -4%
  • YE
    YWCA Edmonton
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k · revenue +18%

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
Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses

The Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses is a coalition of first stage emergency shelters second stage housing organizations and community-based women organizations who work towards ending voilence against all women. The…

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2
Foundations for Social Change

Helping newly homeless from becoming entrenched in homelessness undertaking research and analysis of this issue.

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3
Inuvik Transition House Society

Operation is to provide a safe shelter for females who suffer from family violence

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4
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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5
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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6
Victoria Women's Transition House Society

For 50 years Victoria Women's Transition House Society has provided safe shelter counselling education and support for women of all ages with or without children to live free from violence and abuse in intimate relationships. We strive to…

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7
Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada

Knowledge Exchange: We facilitate the creation and implementation of new ideas and practices to meet the needs of shelters and the women and children they serve. Through coordinated working groups virtual work spaces research and…

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8
Perth County Transition Home for Women Inc

Providing women and their children who are experiencing violence and abuse with emergency residential shelter supportive individual and group counselling referrals and support related to finding housing family court and navigating social…

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9
Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society

Discovery House is a non-profit organization providing a continuum of care to families leaving domestic violence. We provide transitional housing offering long-term safe places for families to call home while they begin rebuilding their…

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10
Cara Transition House Inc

Provide shelter and safety to women and their dependent children who are escaping family violence. Provide food housing clothing personal care items medical supplies prescriptions and household items to residents of our emergency shelter…

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11
Halifax Transition House Association

The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive…

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12
Sakeenah Canada

Women's Transitional Homes Mental Health Foster Care The People's Market (food program). The organizations purpose is to assist those affected by spousal abuse through counselling and treatment programs. It also provides affordable and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Housing for Women / Le pilier logements pour femmes and the most unlike its peers is Transition House Foundation. 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

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 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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 budgetTransition House Foundation — C$56,800 over 7y, 18% of budgetLoaves and Fishes - Inner City Churches of Sydney — C$56,400 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul - Hope Cottage — C$46,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTearmann Society for Abused Women — C$28,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBoard of Governers, St Francis Xavier University — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilanthropic Foundations Canada — C$7,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDoctors Without Borders/Medecins San Frontieres — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Edmonton — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Housing for Women/Le pillier logements pour femm — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Intelligence Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Congregation of Notre…United Way Maritimes/…Shoppers Foundation f…Canadian Women's Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.NS8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc. · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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 11 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 2024-12-31, 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 709247498:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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