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Virden, MB · Public foundation

The Virden Area Foundation Inc.

The organization is engaged to the operation of attracting gifts of capital for the development of an endowment fund and making grants to charitable organization for worthwhile community projects

C$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$35k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$3,282
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Town of Virden - MunicipalityC$60,048
Fort La Bosse Foundation- (VCI clock & Accessible PlaygroundC$13,000
Virden & District Health AuxiliaryC$12,000
Border Regional LibraryC$10,445
Virden Aud RestorationC$10,000
Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodnorth - MunicipalityC$7,834
Rural Municipality of Sifton - MunicipalityC$5,000
Fort La Bosse Foundation - Youth in PhilanthropyC$3,500
Virden Cemetery Improvement AssociationC$3,282
Arts Mosaic Inc.C$3,200
Saskatchewan PolytechnicC$2,500
University of CalgaryC$2,500
Parkissimo Lodge Inc.C$2,500
Virden Pioneer Home Museum Inc.C$1,347
Providence University CollegeC$1,000
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$521k · 22 repeat orgsC$194k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
38

Total granted

C$521k
C$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+24%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • VD
    VIRDEN & DISTRICT HEALTH AUXILIARY
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$75k · revenue +113% · 37% of their budget
  • FL
    Fort La Bosse Foundation- (VCI clock & Accessible Playground
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$46k · revenue +420%
  • VC
    VIRDEN CEMETERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • VS
    VIRDEN SKATEBOARD PARK C/O TOWN OF VIRDEN
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k
  • SA
    Seniors Access to independent Livinggraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +48%
  • VA
    VIRDEN AREA WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$13k · revenue -90% · 67% of their budget

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
Olds College

Olds college works with industry and clients to develop and deliver a range of training programs and products designed to meet desired specifications in areas of agriculture horticulture land and environmental management agribusiness…

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2
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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3
Red Deer Polytechnic

All red deer polytechnic (rdp) programs are educational. the polytechnic offers academic upgrading pre-employment apprenticeship certificate diploma and bachelor degree programs.

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4
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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5
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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6
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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7
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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8
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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9
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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10
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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11
Red River College Polytechnic

Red river college polytechnic is recognized globally for excellence in applied learning research and innovation. the mission of red river college polytechnic is to elevate people industry and community in manitoba through future-focused…

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12
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies

Saskatchewan indian institute of technologies is a post-secondary educational institute with an emphasis on the training education and employment development of first nations adults. programming is provided in the areas of academic…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virden Pioneer Home Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cherry Point Park Committee (Cppc). 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 65 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRDEN & DISTRICT HEALTH AUXILIARY — C$74,989 over 5y, 37% of budgetFort La Bosse Foundation- (VCI clock & Accessible Playground — C$45,770 over 8y, 21% of budgetSeniors Access to independent Living — C$20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetVIRDEN CEMETERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — C$19,722 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetARTS MOSIAC — C$18,700 over 3y, 10% of budgetBorder Regional Library — C$13,071 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetVIRDEN PIONEER HOME MUSEUM — C$12,532 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetVIRDEN AREA WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 67% of budgetVirden Youth for Christ — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION OF MANITOBA — C$11,275 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVirden Aud Restoration — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKENTON COMMUNTY PARK PROJECT — C$8,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSK POLYTECH - SASKATOON — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELKHORN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetOAK LAKE CARE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHERRY POINT PARK COMMITTEE — C$4,250 over 1y, 37% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElkhorn Elks Community Fund — C$3,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetSOURIS RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDON UNIVERSITY — C$3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOBA ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM — C$3,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSAIT — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkissimo Lodge Inc. — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAKELAND COLLEGE - HELEN CARSCADDEN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReston & Area Early Learning Crentre — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVirden Music & Arts Festival — C$2,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetASSINIBOINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence University College — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Island University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakehead University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Assiniboine River Conservation District — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrairie Mountain Health — C$500 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.

  • Who funds VIRDEN & DISTRICT HEALTH AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds Fort La Bosse Foundation- (VCI clock & Accessible Playground ↗
  • Who funds Seniors Access to independent Living ↗
  • Who funds VIRDEN CEMETERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS MOSIAC ↗
  • Who funds Border Regional Library ↗
  • Who funds VIRDEN PIONEER HOME MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VIRDEN AREA WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Virden Youth for Christ ↗
  • Who funds THE PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION OF MANITOBA ↗
  • Who funds Virden Aud Restoration ↗
  • Who funds KENTON COMMUNTY PARK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SK POLYTECH - SASKATOON ↗
  • Who funds ELKHORN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds RIVER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OAK LAKE CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY POINT PARK COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ↗
  • Who funds Elkhorn Elks Community Fund ↗
  • Who funds SOURIS RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds BRANDON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MANITOBA ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SAIT ↗

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.

The Brandon Area Comm…Elkhorn & Area Founda…Oak Lake & Area Found…United Way Of Brandon…The Winnipeg Foundati…Richardson Foundation…Community Foundation …Hylife Foundation Inc.The Killarney Foundat…Manitoba Foundation f…The Glenboro Area Fou…Souris Glenwood Found…
The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc.MB15.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc. · Elkhorn & Area Foundation Inc. · Oak Lake & Area Foundation Inc. · United Way Of Brandon & District Inc. · The Winnipeg Foundation · Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc. · Community Foundation of Swan Valley Inc. · Hylife Foundation Inc. · The Killarney Foundation Inc. · Manitoba Foundation for Sports Inc · The Glenboro Area Foundation Inc · Souris Glenwood 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 65 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 public foundation under community resource.

Source object 131848525:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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