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Rothesay, NB · Private foundation

The Sir James Dunn Foundation Inc.

Supply grants to other charities within canada

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k31 grants · C$615k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$690k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK SAINT JOHNC$200,000
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$175,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GRAND MANANC$65,000
NB YOUTH ORCHESTRAC$50,000
TENNIS CANADAC$50,000
BEE ME KIDZ INC.C$50,000
CENTRE FOR YOUTH CARE INC.C$50,000
FOUNDATION CHUDUMONTC$50,000
IMPERIAL THEATREC$40,000
SUNBURY SHORES ART AND NATURE CENTERC$35,000
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION LA FONDATION PORTAGEC$30,000
NEW BRUNSWICK MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$30,000
WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK FOUNDATIONC$30,000
TOWN OF SAINT ANDREWSC$30,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.8M · 44 repeat orgsC$916k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
23

Total granted

C$6.8M
C$661k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+48%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$255k 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

  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$733k · revenue +37%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHN
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$700k · revenue +13%
  • ST
    ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$500k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NW
    NEIGHOURHOOD WORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +53%
  • NC
    Nature Conservancy of Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$83k · revenue +144%
  • PL
    PASSAMAQUODDY LODGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +13%

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
Saint John Community Health Support Foundation Inc.
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2
The New Brunswick Museum Foundation Inc.

Supporting the mission and business of the new brunswick museum. the foundation is also developing a planned giving program and anticipating a capital campagn for a new facility for the new brunswick museum

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3
Ymca of Southwestern New Brunswick Endowment Fund Inc.

Ymca of greater saint john endowment fund inc. supports the charitable work of the ymca of greater saint john inc. and offers bursaries to students in the greater saint john region to further their education.

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4
New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Inc/Fondation Des Arts Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc

Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.

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5
Nourishing Minds Nb Inc.

To support activities that increase healthy eating practices in new brunswick schools.

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6
Conservation Council of New Brunswick Inc.

1. marine conservation 2. environmental justice 3. climate change 4. ecological forestry 5. employment programs 6. sustainable energy 7. fresh water protection 8. biodiversity 9. waste management

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7
New Brunswick Social Pediatrics Inc. / Pédiatrie sociale du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.

Nb social pediatrics uses a multi-disciplinary intersectoral approach to use the social determinants of health as entry points to mitigate toxic stress and trauma in children; utilizing research and evaluation of each program to identify…

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8
New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/Société protectrice des animaux (Noveau-Brunswick)

Develop and supervise a highly skilled team of animal protection services - who investigate animal abuse and neglect complaints across nb including laying charges under the spca act and the criminal code of canada. respond to animal…

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9
Habitat for Humanity New Brunswick Inc.

Building affordable housing and promoting home ownership for low income families.

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10
The New Brunswick Community College Foundation/La Fondation du collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.

Receiving endowment and other contributions to support scholarship program. to make grants and gifts to punlic post-secondary colleges in support of their programs and activities of their students.

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11
John Howard Society of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc.

Rehabilitation of offenders Employment preparation and training Specialized health organizations Record suspensions Intensive outreach support Veterans connector

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12
The Community Foundation of South-East New Brunswick Inc./La Fondation Communautaire Sud-Est Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwestern New Brunswick Inc. and the most unlike its peers is St. Thomas University. 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

67 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. 67 of the 78 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
42/67
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 budgetBEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY — C$850,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$733,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK OF SAINT JOHN — C$700,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY — C$500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$355,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetNB YOUTH ORCHESTRA — C$225,000 over 6y, 69% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$208,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBEE ME KIDZ INC. — C$200,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetNEW BRUNSWICK MEDICAL EDUCATIONAN FOUNDATION — C$180,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetCHALEUR REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$160,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetIMPERIAL THEATRE — C$150,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBUSINESS COMMUNITY ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE — C$150,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetARTS & CULTURE CENTRE OF SUSSEX — C$142,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$120,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER SAINT JOHN — C$110,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSUNBURY SHORES ART AND NATURE CENTER — C$105,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTITIES ATLANTIC — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFondation Hopital Dr-Georges-L-Dumont — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHOURHOOD WORKS — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA GREATER SAINT JOHN — C$95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATURE TRUST OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$90,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$83,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStan Cassidy Foundation — C$78,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetL'ARCHE SAINT JOHN INC. — C$75,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetYOUTH IMPACT JEUNESSE — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GRAND MANAN — C$65,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWE'VE GOT YOUR BACK FOUNDATION — C$57,500 over 5y, 53% of budgetTHE PORTAGE FOUNDATION LA FONDATION PORTAGE — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRE FOR YOUTH CARE INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROMERO HOUSE INC. — C$42,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetATLANTIC WELLNESS INSTITUTE — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSNIDER MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTRE OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC. — C$37,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetNew Brunswick Youth Orchestra — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKV VALLEY FOOD BANK — C$32,500 over 5y, 80% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY SPCA — C$32,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCHERRY BROOK ZOO — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SAINT JOHN INC. — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHINING HORIZONS THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION INC. — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetEDMUNDSTON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN LEARNING EXCHANGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMPTY STOCKING FUND — C$25,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$23,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA GREATER MONCTON — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKV FOOD BASKET — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPASSAMAQUODDY LODGE INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

United Way Serving Sa…The Windsor FoundationMacmurray Foundation …The Greater Saint Joh…Fundy Community Found…The McCain FoundationNew Brunswick Protest…Canada Donates Inc.The Christofor Founda…Kiwanis Charities of …United Way/Centraide …The J T Clark Family …
United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc.NS28.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc. · The Windsor Foundation · Macmurray Foundation Inc. · The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · Fundy Community Foundation · The McCain Foundation · New Brunswick Protestant Orphans Home · Canada Donates Inc. · The Christofor Foundation Inc. · Kiwanis Charities of Saint John · United Way/Centraide (Central N.B./Region Du Centre du N.B.)Inc. · The J T Clark Family Foundation Inc

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 78 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 834433393:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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