Sydney, NS · Private foundation
The Mackenna Foundation Incorporated
Funding of mission work and community development work both in cape breton and abroad through contributions to qualified donees.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUNAMIS FELLOWSHIP CANADA | C$10,000 |
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 +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- CBCAPE BRETON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION3× · 2017–2022 · C$148k · revenue +356%
- AIAction International Ministries3× · 2017–2022 · C$31k · revenue +7%
- MMACA3× · 2017–2022 · C$23k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HPHOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE CBone grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue -39%
- IBIsland Business Ministriesone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue -39%
- OHOne Hope Ministries of Canadagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +124%
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.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
Christian counselling services Seminars workshops and literature related to Christian-based counselling
We provide ministry and administrative support to the denominational churches within the provice of bc. that support includes licensing hr employment services counseling prayer theological direction training professional development…
Conducting regular church services of Christian worship organizing and running retreats for church members providing Christian counseling
To encourage Christian Faith by ministering to people in Canada and/or across the world and by providing Humanitarian Aid to help alleviate poverty and suffering.
Resource for Christian Camps and Conference Centres across Canada; training events for Christian Camp and Conference Centre leaders; networking with other Christian Associations in Canada and throughout the world involved in furthering…
Provide leadership conferences training and church planting support in developing countries. Also to provide spiritual life and evangelism conferences in Canada as well as in first nations church community
The organization provides retreats counselling and teaching to Pastors Missionaries and Churches in Canada
Supporting churches denominations and ministry leaders in strategy and training for effectiveness. conducting research on canadian religious activity providing community profiles for strategic planning. identifying minority populations in…
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
Our aim is to create God-honouring transformation in communities where He is not worshiped. We prepare and train our workers and volunteers to establish groups of Christ followers in areas where there are presently none both within and…
Hold conferences that would help train educate and promote fellowship within the apostolic churches
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Fellowship Church-Associate Reformed Presbyterian and the most unlike its peers is Dunamis Fellowship Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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.
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.
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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.