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Thorold, ON · Private foundation

The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation

Financial funding of various charitable organizations in the Niagara Region of Ontario primarily in the following areas: Education Social Services Health and Environment

C$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k28 grants · C$62k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$130k
C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brock UniversityC$35,000
Niagara Health FoundationC$20,000
Niagara CollegeC$20,000
The Regional Municipality of NiagaraC$15,000
Heartland Forest CentreC$10,000
Hotel Dieu Shaver FoundationC$10,000
McNally House HospiceC$10,000
District School Board of NiagaraC$10,000
St. Catharines Historical SocietyC$5,000
Niagara Catholic School BoardC$5,000
United Way NiagaraC$5,000
Family and Children ServicesC$5,000
Historical Society of St. CatharinesC$5,000
Meals on Wheels - St. Catharines & ThoroldC$5,000
Community Support Services of NiagaraC$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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 57 repeat orgsC$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
61

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

95%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$43k 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

  • BU
    Brock University
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$205k · revenue +22%
  • NC
    Niagara College Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue ×149
  • OF
    ONE FOUNDATION NIAGARA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION-MRI
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$119k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF THOROLD - BATTLE OF BEAVERDAM PARK
    one grant, 2022 · C$26k
  • PR
    PATHSTONE - RIVER HOUSE RENOVATIONS
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -33%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LAURA SECORD - ACCESSIBILITY PATH
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -73%

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
Niagara Health System

Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.

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2
Niagara College Foundation
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3
Niagara Tournament of Hope

Donate funds for breast cancer research and detection and cancer support services

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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority

The npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical juridiction

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6
Alzheimer Society Niagara Foundation

The alzheimer society niagara foundation is strongly committed to financially sustaining the service needs of the alzheimer society of niagara region in ways that are positive meaningful and engaging.

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7
Information Niagara Inc.
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8
North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation

Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…

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9
The Kiwanis Foundation of Niagara Falls
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10
The Niagara Foundation

Sponsors and attends meetings related to projects of all levels of government and other activities within the town of niagara on the lake. the organization buys or rents and then restores buildings and other items of historical…

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11
Niagara Land Trust Foundation

Land review and securement science and stewardship work towards acquiring environmentally significant lands and agricultural lands for public interests and benefit while providing leadership in sustainable land stewardship of environmental…

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12
United Way of South Niagara
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln County Humane Society. 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

104 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. 104 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/104
Grantees still filing
68/104
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 budgetBrock University — C$205,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Niagara-Special Donation — C$151,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetNiagara College Foundation — C$120,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetONE FOUNDATION NIAGARA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION-MRI — C$118,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHOTEL DIEU SHAVER HEALTH & REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — C$110,100 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPATHSTONE HEALING GARDEN — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE NIAGARA — C$55,150 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of St. Catherines and District - Matching Donatio — C$55,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHeartland Forest Centre — C$53,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDistrict School Board Niagara — C$47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Niagara — C$42,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBEAVERDAMS CHURCH RESTORATION-SPECIAL DONATION — C$32,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS THOROLD & ST.CATHARINES — C$31,100 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNiagara Symphony (Conductor in the Classroom) — C$30,050 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA - CAMP WETASKIWIN — C$30,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPATHSTONE - RIVER HOUSE RENOVATIONS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAURA SECORD - ACCESSIBILITY PATH — C$25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS NIAGARA FALLS — C$19,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFamily and Children Services — C$17,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBETHLEHEM HOUSING & SUPPORT SERVICES — C$17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE - COVID 19 RELIEF — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNiagara Catholic School Board — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Living — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — C$14,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSociety of St. Vincent de Paul — C$12,050 over 3y, 31% of budgetYMCA Youth Action Program — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CREW — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMcNally House Hospice — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OWL FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNiagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair — C$8,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetNIAGARA AMPUTEE ASSOCIATION — C$8,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF NORTH & WEST NIAGARA — C$7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGILLIAN'S PLACE — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGrow Community — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RAFT - RESOURCE FOR TEENS — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCave Springs — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBethesda Services-special needs assistance — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Support Services of Niagara — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED ROOF RETREAT — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKristen French Child Advocacy Centre — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT SHARE -COVID 19 RELIEF — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPink Pearl Foundation — C$2,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCarousel Players — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSalvation Army (Red Shield Appeal) — C$2,050 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHannah House — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKNOX CHURCH-OUT IN THE COLD PROGRAM - MARGARET STEWART — C$1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation - 4 — C$1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Rosary Church Building Fund - 2 — C$400 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraCtfs Employees' Chari…Wise Guys Charity FundThe Branscombe Family…Niagara Region Police…Barterpay It Forward …St. Andrew's United C…Silver Spire United C…Rotary Club of St Cat…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Kiwanis Club of St Ca…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON42.3× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · St. Andrew's United Church · Silver Spire United Church · Rotary Club of St Catherines South Charitable Trust · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Kiwanis Club of St Catharines Charitable Trust

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 125 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 891653446:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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