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Winnipeg, MB · Private foundation

The Meril Rivard Family Foundation Inc.

Provides donations to qualified donees.

C$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$50k
C$13,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVEST MANITOBAC$27,000
TRUE NORTH YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$13,000
UNITED WAY OF WINNIPEGC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MANITOBAC$5,000
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$171k · 3 repeat orgsC$103k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

C$171k
C$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SM
    SILOAM MISSION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$80k · revenue +98%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$51k · revenue -2783%
  • MY
    MACDONALD YOUTH SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$40k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MANITOBA MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · C$11k · revenue -10%
  • TW
    THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +410%
  • HM
    HARVEST MANITOBA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k

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
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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2
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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3
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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4
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

1) medical surgical and psychiatric healthcare. 2) medical research

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5
The Winnipeg Art Gallery

Founded in 1912 the winnipeg art gallery (the 'gallery') is a public art gallery with a mandate to encourage and promote the visual art heritage of manitoba. the gallery collects preserves exhibits and make accessible works of art by…

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6
End Homelessness Winnipeg Inc.

To bring together all sectors of our community to work with people who are experiencing homelessness so that together we can prevent homelessness support recovery and wellbeing find suitable housing and measure our success in ways that…

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7
The Manitoba Museum Foundation Incorporated/Fondation Du Musee Du Manitoba Incorporee

The manitoba museum foundation incorporated supports the long term objectives of the manitoba museum. it funds research activities special projects collections acquisitions and exhibit renewals at the manitoba museum.

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8
Winnipeg Housing Rehabilitation Corporation

Providing subsidized rental housing to low-income families; developing neighbourhood strategies for lower income households

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9
Ronald McDonald House Manitoba Inc.

Rmhc manitoba supports the health and well-being of children by providing a 'home-away-from-home' and other essential servicces for critically ill chronically ill and seriously injured children and their families

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10
Winnipeg Inner City Youth Futures Fund Inc.
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11
Beginning Experience of Winnipeg Inc
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12
The Women's Health Research Foundation of Canada Inc.

The foundation awarded four scholarships to full-time graduate students doing women's health research projects at the university of manitoba. the foundation also awarded four prizes at the manitoba schools science symposium and one prize…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Winnipeg Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Siloam Mission Inc.. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
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$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSILOAM MISSION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACDONALD YOUTH SERVICES — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST MANITOBA — C$27,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE NORTH YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANITOBA MUSEUM — C$10,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WINNIPEG — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIDNEY FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinnipeg Symphony Orechstra — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MANITOBA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE 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.

The Pollard Family Fo…Price Family Foundati…The Jewish Foundation…Giftpact Foundation I…Wcpd FoundationThe Winnipeg Foundati…All Charities CampaignRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…
The Pollard Family Foundation Inc.MB8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · Price Family Foundation Inc. · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Wcpd Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · All Charities Campaign · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 13 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 813417771:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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