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Stratford, ON · Charitable organization

The Stratford Arts Foundation

The purpose of the charity is to establish maintain and operate cultural projects and particularly a summer music fesitval in the city of stratford.

C$1k
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
1
Regions reached
C$140
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$70
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$341k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alzeimer Society of Perth CountyC$140
The Local Community Food CentreC$70
Autism SocietyC$70
Elmer Iseler SingersC$70
Parkinson SocietyC$70
The School of Toronto Dance TheatreC$70
Wellspring StratfordC$70
Stratford Perth Humane SocietyC$70
Stratford Perth Community FoundationC$70
Stratford GalleryC$70
KITCHENER WATERLOO GALLERYC$70
Heart & Stroke FoundationC$70
Greenwood CourtC$70
Foundation for EducationC$70
Clay and Glass GalleryC$70
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2k · 9 repeat orgsC$700 to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

C$2k
C$280

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$420 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • AS
    Alzeimer Society of Perth County
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$280 · revenue +232%
  • SP
    Stratford Perth Community Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$248 · revenue +34%
  • CA
    Clay and Glass Gallery
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$140 · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RC
    Rotary Club of London Hyde
    one grant, 2017 · C$70 · revenue +7%
  • HW
    Huron Women's Sheltergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$70 · revenue +55%
  • CB
    Canadian Blood Services
    one grant, 2017 · C$70 · revenue +23%

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
Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada

Established in 1952 the Stratford Festival is one of North America’s longest running arts organizations. Running in repertory from April to October with the works of Shakespeare at the core of its artistic mandate it seeks to bring…

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3
Strathroy District Arts Council

Arts & Advocacy Audience Development & Arts Education For All Working & Promoting Interest in Building An Arts Centre Support & Encourage Arts & Culture in Strathroy & surrounding communities Youth Performing Arts

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4
The Centre in the Square Inc

Centre In the Square's charitable work is to advance the knowledge and appreciation of and stimulate interest in the arts through music drama etc. by providing performances and educational experiences in the Waterloo Region. Centre In the…

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5
Arts Ottawa

Supports artists and art organizations

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6
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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7
Waterloo Community Arts Centre

The centre operates a summer art camp for children every July and August and provides workshops and classes for adults and children throughout the year. The centre organizes art exhibits and performances and provides facilities to other…

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8
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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9
Ontario Arts Council/Conseil Des Arts De L'ontario

Since its inception in 1963 the ontario arts council (oac) has played a vital role in promoting and supporting the development creation and production of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all ontarians. the oac has fostered the…

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10
Artworks for Cancer Foundation

Artworks for cancer is a not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to bring works of art to cancer treatment units in hospitals across ontario transforming clinical areas into warm hopeful and healing spaces for patients their families…

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11
Windsor Endowment for the Arts

Foster develop support and champion a vibrant dynamic arts community in the city of winsdor dedicated to the advancement of education and development of the public understanding of and appreciation for the arts through encouragement of the…

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12
Arts Orillia

Development of cultural and educational activities and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Huron Waves Music Festival. 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

21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
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 budgetAlzeimer Society of Perth County — C$280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Perth Community Foundation — C$248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Gallery — C$240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClay and Glass Gallery — C$140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Stratford — C$140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation — C$140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Education — C$140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Society — C$140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Court — C$140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Perth Humane Society — C$140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Society — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of London Hyde — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElmer Iseler Singers — C$70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuron Women's Shelter — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Blood Services — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Local Community Food Centre — C$70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENER WATERLOO GALLERY — C$70 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grand Philharmonic Choir — C$70 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.

Stratford and Perth C…Ontario Arts Foundati…Waterloo Region Commu…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Rotary Club of St…The Rotary Club of Fe…United Way of Perth-H…Canada Donates Inc.Flavelle Family Found…Canadian National Chr…Abundance CanadaLondon Community Foun…
Stratford and Perth County Community FoundationON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation · The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundation · United Way of Perth-Huron · Canada Donates Inc. · Flavelle Family Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Abundance Canada · London Community 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 18 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 2018-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under arts.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 878197417:2018-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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