Barrie, ON · Private foundation
The Pathfinder Foundation
Providing funds to other charitable organizations which in the opinion of the directors will use such funds for their charitable purpose.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. John's Church | C$5,500 |
| Habitat for Humanity Ontario Gateway North | C$5,000 |
| Ontario Track3 Adaptive Sports Association | C$4,000 |
| YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka | C$3,000 |
| Brigs Youth Sail Training | C$3,000 |
| Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation | C$2,700 |
| RVH Foundation | C$2,250 |
| The Guesthouse | C$2,000 |
| Georgian Bay General Hospital Foundation | C$1,500 |
| Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka | C$1,000 |
| St. Mark's Church - Anglican | C$1,000 |
| Georgian Bay Cancer Support Centre | C$1,000 |
| Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka | C$1,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Dufferin | C$1,000 |
| Wendat Community Programs | C$1,000 |
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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- SJSt. John's Church8× · 2017–2024 · C$63k · revenue +14%
- YOYMCA of Simcoe Muskoka8× · 2017–2024 · C$41k · revenue +8%
- HFHabitat for Humanity Ontario Gateway North7× · 2017–2024 · C$34k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- HFHabitat For Humanity Ontario Gateway Northone grant, 2018 · C$4k
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.
The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…
Public hospital inpatient and outpatient services diagnostic and therapeutic services ccc/rehab palliative and emergency
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…
Georgian Nordic Outdoor Activity Centre is a charitable organization run by a dedicated group of volunteer who are outdoor enthusiasts who share a passion for exercise among nature. Through our chosen activities we experience the rugged…
Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…
The Foundation operates from two locations - Wellspring Westerkirk House at Sunnybrook and Wellspring Birmingham Gilgan House as well as offering online programs and some programs in local hospitals. The Foundation offers support programs…
The ottawa regional cancer foundation is a supportive cancer care champion. we harness the power of our community to deliver life changing results for those affected by cancer. we offer a community cancer hub a single portal for local…
The purpose of the foundation is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north (hsn) and health sciences north research institute (hsnri). amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment…
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
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…
Promote devise sponsor establish assist develop and participate in measures and programs to raise money for capital projects and staff education of brightshores health system
Create and deliver physical activity programs for individuals with parkinson's disease to slow the progression rate or reduce the existing effects of parkinson's disease -provide those with parkinson's disease their families and caregivers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgian Bay General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Wye Marsh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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.
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.
- Who funds St. John's Church ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Simcoe Muskoka ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Ontario Gateway North ↗
- Who funds Ontario Track3 Adaptive Sports Association ↗
- Who funds Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Guesthouse ↗
- Who funds RVH Foundation ↗
- Who funds Guilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Dufferin and District ↗
- Who funds Georgian Bay Cancer Support Centre ↗
- Who funds Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre ↗
- Who funds Canadian Cancer Society ↗
- Who funds The Georgian Bay Trust ↗
- Who funds Georgian Bay General Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Osteoporosis Canada ↗
- Who funds St. Mark's Church - Anglican ↗
- Who funds Headwaters Healthcare Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Huronia Community Foundation / La fondation communautaire dela Huronie · Toronto Foundation · The Weber Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · The Tonglen Foundation · Honda Canada Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · BenefAction Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund
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.