How much does The Winnipeg Foundation give?

The Winnipeg Foundation reported 1,034 grants totaling C$78,199,430 in its FY2024 T3010 return. It funded between 833 and 995 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are The Winnipeg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation (C$41M), The University Of Manitoba (C$12M), The Royal Winnipeg Ballet (C$11M).

Does The Winnipeg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Winnipeg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pollard Family Foundation Inc., Winnipeg Arts Council Inc., Thomas Sill Foundation Inc..

Where is The Winnipeg Foundation based?

The Winnipeg Foundation is based in WINNIPEG, MB.

The Winnipeg Foundation

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Winnipeg, MB · Public foundation

The Winnipeg Foundation

THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION connects donors from all walks of life with local charitable organizations that help our city flourish for all.

C$78M

Granted FY2024still arriving

1,034

Grants FY2024still arriving

Regions reached

C$18M

Largest

01What it funds

01FY2024 · 1034 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under C$10k430 grants · C$1.4M
C$10k–50k373 grants · C$8.6M
C$50k–250k183 grants · C$18M
C$250k+48 grants · C$50M

C$14,930

Median grant

Regions reached

C$2.4B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation	C$18,091,200
Province of Manitoba	C$3,047,483
The University Of Manitoba	C$2,292,839
Manitoba Recreational Trails Association Inc.	C$1,594,784
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet	C$1,572,979
City of Winnipeg	C$1,311,430
United Way Of Winnipeg	C$1,256,225
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Inc.	C$1,222,705
Main Street Project Inc.	C$1,213,881
Selkirk & District Community Foundation Inc.	C$1,145,665
Ma Mawi-Wi-Chi-Itata Centre Inc	C$1,123,800
Ogniwo Polish Museum Society Inc.	C$852,006
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Inc.	C$779,579
Children's Heritage Education Endowment Fund	C$762,364
Siloam Mission Inc.	C$735,709

02The need

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Which regions its grants reach

Manitoba

C$331M

Ontario

C$14M

British Columbia

C$3.2M

Alberta

C$2.4M

Saskatchewan

C$2.2M

Quebec

C$1.2M

Nova Scotia

C$40k

Yukon

C$40k

New Brunswick

C$16k

Prince Edward Island

C$5k

Newfoundland and Labrador

C$2k

How this is measured

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

C$346M · 1278 repeat orgsC$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

1278 repeat relationships: 934 still active in FY2024, 344 since wound down; 99 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1278

403

Total granted

C$346M

C$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+15%

Still filing today

95%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

MH
Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation
3× · 2022–2024 · C$41M · revenue +55% · 73% of their budget
TU
The University Of Manitoba
7× · 2017–2024 · C$12M · revenue +20%
TR
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
7× · 2017–2024 · C$11M · revenue +38%

Funded once

PO
Province of Manitoba Department of Sport Culture and
one grant, 2020 · C$805k
NE
NORTH END WELLNESS CENTRE INC.
one grant, 2019 · C$145k · revenue -15%
CA
CANADIAN AGRI-FOOD FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · C$131k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mlc Montessori Learning Centres Inc.

To provide montessori pre-school program on a non-profit basis in the province of manitoba.

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Winnipeg: Human Rights Education City Inc.

Promotion of the city of winnipeg as a centre for human rights. promotion of human rights education and developing programs and services that will bring community awareness to the issues of human rights within the city of winnipeg.

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Manitoba Theatre Centre Foundation

To assist and promote the operations of the royal manitoba theatre centre inc.

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Manitoba Foundation for Sports Inc

C1 - providing educational scholarships to athletes enrolled in post-secondary institutions. h4 - providing grants to qualified donees to assist with community recreational programs.

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Winnipeg Inner City Youth Futures Fund Inc.

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Springfield Learning Centres Incorporated

To provide day care services on a non-profit basis in the province of manitoba

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Full Circle for Indigenous Education Inc.

Full Circle for Indigenous Education seeks to enrich the learning and growth of people in Manitoba to support the reclamation of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being.

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River West Park Kids Inc.

To provide child care services on a non-profit basis in the Province of Manitoba

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Linwood Child Centre Inc.

To provide day care services on a non - profit basis in the province of manitoba.

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Kinder Korner Early Learning Centre Inc.

To provide daycare services on a non-profit basis in the province of manitoba

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Manitoba Women's Institute

Provide educational opportunities for women of all ages throughout the province through local regional and provincial seminars conventions workshops and newsletters. mwi is an organization that focuses on personal development family…

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Film Training Manitoba Inc

Film training manitoba is an organization that provides workshop training professional development programs and on-the-job training for the film industry and television industry.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indigenous Family Centre Inc.; the most unlike its peers is Theatreone Performance Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1706 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1706 of the 1,780 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

248

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

465

Early backer (in before they grew)

1647/1706

Grantees still filing

1185/1706

Grew since first funded

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pollard Family Foundation Inc.MB37.3× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · Winnipeg Arts Council Inc. · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · Price Family Foundation Inc. · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · Winnipeg Goldeyes Field of Dreams Foundation Inc. · First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg Inc · The Ernst Hansch Foundation Inc. · Manitoba Arts Council · Graham C. Lount Family Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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