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Merlin, ON · Charitable organization

The Merlin Senior Citizens Friendship Club

Entertainment and recreation such as card playing quilting crafts and art & computer classes; Chicken dinners for fund raising purposes and social outing.

C$150
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$25
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Blenheim Medical Health FoundationC$25
Chatham-Kent Hospice FoundationC$25
Alzheimer Society of Chatham KentC$25
Heart and Stroke FoundationC$25
Merlin United ChurchC$25
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$25
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2k · 8 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

C$2k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25 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

  • AS
    Alzheimer Society of Chatham Kent
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$650 · revenue +51%
  • CH
    Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$275 · revenue +37%
  • MU
    Merlin United Church
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$250 · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CF
    Canadian Foodgrains Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +34%
  • MC
    Merlin Community Assistance Group
    one grant, 2021 · C$100
  • CC
    CHATHAM-KENT CRIME STOPPERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100 · revenue +50%

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.

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Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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3
Fund Homecare Canada

Fund Homecare Canada is a Canadian registered charitable not-for-profit organization dedicated to making in-home care accessible to palliative cancer patients—a critical and prevalent need that is unfortunately out of reach for many. We…

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4
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

The organization provide a full range of hospital services including 24 hour emergency service.

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5
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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6
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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7
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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8
St Mary's General Hospital Foundation Kitchener-Waterloo

St Mary's General Hospital Foundation utilizes a variety of fundraising methods to help meet the health and capital equipment needs at St Mary's General Hospital. The fundraising methods include solicitation direct mail planned giving and…

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9
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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10
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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11
Mccormick Home Foundation of London Ontario

Mccormick home foundation raises funds and administers grants to mccormick care group in support of residents of mccormick home and clients of mccormick dementia services and their caregivers. mccormick home foundation also raises funds…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blenheim and Merlin School Breakfast Program. 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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank — C$1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Chatham Kent — C$650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChatham-Kent Hospice Foundation — C$275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMerlin United Church — C$250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHeart&Stroke — C$172 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM-KENT CRIME STOPPERS INC — C$100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChatham-Kent Hospice — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation — C$50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMerlin-Fletcher Pastoral Charge — C$50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario — C$50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFletcher United Church — C$25 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICK'S CHURCH & SHRINE MERLIN — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian National Institute for the Blind — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Buxton Pastoral Charge - St Andrew's United Church — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlenheim and Merlin School Breakfast Program — C$25 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S LIFECARE FOUNDATION — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM KENT WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHemophila Ontario — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKidney Foundation of Canada — C$25 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.

Chatham Kent Communit…United Way of Chatham…St. Clair Catholic Di…North Buxton Communit…Lindsay Road Congrega…The Gathering Place C…Rotary Club of Chatha…Ursuline Religious of…My Tribute Gift Found…Vancouver FoundationShoppers Foundation f…Strategic Charitable …
Chatham Kent Community FoundationON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chatham Kent Community Foundation · United Way of Chatham-Kent · St. Clair Catholic District School Board · North Buxton Community Church · Lindsay Road Congregation United Church · The Gathering Place Community Church · Rotary Club of Chatham Service Fund · Ursuline Religious of the Diocese of London in Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation

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 26 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 charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 119245033:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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