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Thunder Bay, ON · Private foundation

The Paterson Foundation

Provide donations for charitable religious or educational purposes to organizations qualified as charitable organizations under the income tax act.

C$551k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$135k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$400k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTREC$100,000
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERYC$100,000
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATIONC$100,000
PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF BOW VALLYC$50,000
CAMBRIAN PLAYERSC$50,000
NORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIESC$25,000
THUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC.C$10,000
THE THUNDER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$10,000
ST. ANDREWS SOUP KITCHENC$10,000
SIOUX LOOKOUT MIN YA WIN CENTREC$10,000
SCIENCE NORTHC$10,000
NORTH OF SUPERIOR HEALTH CARE GROUPC$10,000
FOCUS FORWARD FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTHC$10,000
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETYC$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 63% of grant dollars (C$2.8M). The 37% that went abroad (C$1.7M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 37% of all-years giving (C$1.7M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 31 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
101

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$405k 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

  • LU
    LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$508k · revenue +24%
  • TB
    THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$400k · revenue +34%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2019–2021 · C$142k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • WC
    Western Canada Aviation Museum
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k
  • RH
    Riverview Health Centre Foundation Inc.
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k
  • RR
    Red River College
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation

The foundation provides funding to the thunder bay regional health sciences centre and other regional healthcare providers for the following: -purchase of medical equipment -capital construction projects -edcuations programs healthcare…

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2
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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3
Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

Operation of a sports museum and hall of fame in the City of Thunder Bay with a mandate to preserve and honour our regional sports heritage through different programming initiatives including: Research: undertake research projects and…

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4
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

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

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5
Thunder Bay Community Foundation

Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community

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6
Northwest Health Foundation

Northwest Health Foundation raises revenue to donate to Alberta Health Services to support operating and capital programs in the northwest area of Alberta

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7
Moose Jaw Health Foundation Incorporated

The foundation assists with fundign shortfalls of the capital equipment for the dr fh wigmore regional hospital and the saskatchewan health authority. the foundation supports training and development of health care staff.

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8
Thunder Bay District Veterans' Fund
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9
Northern Health Authority

The role of the Authority is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the north region of British Columbia and those referred from outside the region. Northern Health Authority was created…

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10
Yukon Hospital Foundation

Purchase new medical equipment for yukon hospital corporation as needs arise. provide on-time financial assistance to yukon cancer patients through a specific fund

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11
Red Deer Regional Health Foundation

Red deer regional health foundation (rdrhf) raises and disburses funds for program services and the purchase of medical equipment for the red deer regional hospital centre (rdrhc) and other facilities in alberta health services (ahs)…

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12
Prairie North Regional Health Authority

The Regional Health Authority provides comprehensive health services including: acute care, long term care, primary health, home care, community/public health, mental health, addiction services, emergency services and health promotion and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph's Foundation of Thunder Bay and the most unlike its peers is Lakehead University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 146 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
60/76
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 budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$507,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE — C$300,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY — C$142,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetThunder Bay Counselling Centre — C$120,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRed River College — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetROYAL AVIATION MUSEUM OF WESTERN CANADA INC. — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF BOW VALLEY — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCANADIAN MOUNTAIN ARTS FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TEC — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENIAL MUSEUM SOCIETY OF CANMORE — C$35,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHING ASSISTANCE — C$30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHUNDER BAY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PATERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC. — C$24,777 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. BONIFACE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN HEALTH - SANTÉ SUD — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE MOUNTAIN HEALTH — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF MANITOBA INC. — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIEND OF GRAIN ELEVATORS — C$20,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetHEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATHMORE DISTRICT HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation Manitoba" of Canada" — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Quality Northwest — C$16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST ANDREWS SOUP KITCHEN (DEW DROP INN) — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST. JOSEPH CARE GROUP — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCanmore and Area Health Care Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFOCUS FORWARD FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTH — C$15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRALPH CONNOR MEMORIAL CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Winnipeg — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Lighthouses of Lake Superior — C$10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHumane Society Winnipeg — C$10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST. AMANT FOUNDATION INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST. MARY'S HOSPITAL CAMROSE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHUNDER BAY CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSir Hugh John MacDonald Memorial Hostel — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMackinnon's Y-Not? Anti-poverty Program Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSiloam Mission Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinnipeg Harvest Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMain Street Project Inc. — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S CARE GROUP — C$8,000 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.

Thunder Bay Community…United Way of Thunder…The Ukrainian Catholi…Price Family Foundati…Alan and Doreen Thomp…Giftpact Foundation I…John Andrews Foundati…The Ernst Hansch Foun…The Jewish Foundation…The Winnipeg Foundati…The Asper FoundationAll Charities Campaign
Thunder Bay Community FoundationON26.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunder Bay Community Foundation · United Way of Thunder Bay · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Price Family Foundation Inc. · Alan and Doreen Thompson Charitable Foundation Inc. · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · John Andrews Foundation · The Ernst Hansch Foundation Inc. · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Winnipeg Foundation · The Asper Foundation · All Charities Campaign

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 146 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 119145043:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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