St. John'S, NL · Charitable organization
The St John's Canadian Progress Club Foundation for the Ment
The purpose of the organization is to raise funds to provide financial assistance to various organizations for the mentally handicapped such as (a) the vera perlin society which provide professional programs pertaining to the training education and provision of social programs related to the care of aduit mentally handicapped clients…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$23k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Vera Perlin Society Inc | C$55,000 |
| Newfoundland & Labrador Special Olympics Inc. | C$22,500 |
| Special Olympics Canada | C$1,500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +157% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$57k 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
- VPVera Perlin Charitable Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · C$153k · revenue +1%
- SOSpecial Olympics Newfoundland and Labrador4× · 2017–2024 · C$96k · revenue +3%
- CRCANADIAN RUGBY ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2019 · C$3k · revenue ×20
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF NLone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +7%
- SLSCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · C$600
- ASAUTISM SOCIETY OF NLone grant, 2018 · C$500 · revenue -12%
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.
Provide sport training and competitive experiences for individuals with intellectual disabilities in the province of prince edward island.
Providing athletic programs and coaching for individuals with intellectual disabilities
Provide training support and opportunities for sport and recreation activities for individuals with an intellectual disability provide sport competition opportunities for these athletes.
To support persons with spinal cord injuries and other physical/mental challenges to achieve independence self reliance and full community participation. These support services include peer support rehabilitation counselling…
Oversees the operations of 15 organized regional committees. each region delivers sport programs to mentally challenged people in their own communities. stages a multi sport provincial summer games every year. stages a multi sport…
Weekly training opportunities for athletes with an intellectual disability in the following sports; swimming bowling figure skating speed skating golf track and field snowshoeing gymnastics and general fitness.
The purpose of the organization is to raise funds to provide financial assistance to various organizations for the mentally handicapped such as (a) the vera perlin society which provide professional programs pertaining to the training…
Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…
1) recreational therapy 2) disability awareness 3) employment services 4) skills development and advocacy
Our mission is to enrich the lives of albertans with an intellectual disability through sport. we provide year round sports training and competitions to develop physical fitness and enrich social experiences. programs are held in over 25…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Rugby Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 Vera Perlin Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Newfoundland and Labrador ↗
- Who funds The Vera Perlin Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RUGBY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF NL ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Canada ↗
- Who funds LEARNING DISABILITIES OF NL ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NL ↗
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: United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. · Vocm Cares · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.