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Guelph, ON · Private foundation

The Stonefields Foundation

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C$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$100k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.0M
C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSAGETES FOUNDATIONC$2,025,000
RARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVEC$45,000
GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITALC$45,000
THE MUSEUMC$10,000
GUELPH YOUTH MUSIC CENTREC$5,000
CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVALC$5,000
EDEN MIILLS WRITERS FESTIVALC$4,076
THE WALRUS FOUNDATIONC$2,500
KITCHENER WATERLOO ART GALLERYC$2,000
SHORE CENTREC$1,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$1,000
LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDESC$500
LA LECHE LEAUGE CANADAC$500
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHYC$500
THE NEW QUATERLYC$250
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 31 repeat orgsC$417k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
12

Total granted

C$17M
C$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+65%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • MF
    MUSAGETES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$15M · revenue +30% · 99% of their budget
  • RC
    rare Charitable Research Reserve
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +32%
  • GG
    GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$120k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • RC
    RARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE
    one grant, 2019 · C$300k
  • GG
    GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k
  • CM
    CANDADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +6%

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
The Art Gallery of Windsor

Exhibitions of contemporary and historical works of major canadian and international works of art along with related educational programs. collect and preserve canadian works of art of both contemporary and historical significance.

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2
Art Gallery of Ontario

As a public museum the ago's mission is to bring people together. the ago has a collection of more than 100 000 works which it protects and preserves for current and future generations 4 000 of which are on constant public display.

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3
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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4
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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5
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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6
The Giller Foundation

The foundation awards annual cash prizes to canadian writers for literary excellence.

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7
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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8
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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9
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art/Centre De L'art Contemporain Canadien
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10
Museum London

Museum london collects preserves exhibits and interprets works of art and material culture. we collect both contemporary and historical art and material culture related to the city of london. in the visual arts the focus si on canadian art…

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11
The Winnipeg Art Gallery

Founded in 1912 the winnipeg art gallery (the 'gallery') is a public art gallery with a mandate to encourage and promote the visual art heritage of manitoba. the gallery collects preserves exhibits and make accessible works of art by…

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12
Art Gallery of Burlington

As a charitable not-for-profit cultural and educational organization we provide Burlington and surrounding areas an equitable and inclusive place to create collaborate and innovate. We deliver thought-provoking exhibitions educational…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Gallery of Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is The Elora Singers. 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

39 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. 39 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
29/39
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSAGETES FOUNDATION — C$14,857,592 over 8y, 99% of budgetrare Charitable Research Reserve — C$1,750,273 over 7y, 17% of budgetGUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MUSEUM — C$90,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$67,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKW SYMPHONY — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL — C$27,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLUMINATO FESTIVAL TORONTO — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROM Foundation — C$24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANDADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoran Scholarships Foundation — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN GLASS AND CLAY GALLERY — C$17,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetART GALLERY OF GUELPH — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEDEN MILLS AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CLUB — C$8,366 over 2y, 30% of budgetEDEN MIILLS WRITERS FESTIVAL — C$7,809 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKW ART GALLERY — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMacDonald Stewart Foundation — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEN Canada — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetK-W SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGUELPH YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGuelph Community Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$4,671 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOCA TORONTO — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE CENTRE — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELORA SINGERS — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Leche League Canada — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW QUATERLY — C$1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBORDER CROSSINGS — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY — C$1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF HAMILTON — C$150 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…The Guelph Community …Judy and Wilmot Matth…Ontario Arts Foundati…Good Foundation Inc.The Michael Young Fam…Hal Jackman FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Centre Wellington Com…Partners in ArtAstley Family Foundat…Toronto Foundation
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON16.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Guelph Community Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Good Foundation Inc. · The Michael Young Family Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Centre Wellington Community Foundation · Partners in Art · Astley Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation

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 45 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 807868864:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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