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Yellowknife, NT · Public foundation

The Yellowknife Community Foundation

THE YELLOWKNIFE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION solicits and receives endowment funds we provide grants to qualified donees who provide a broad range of community services we provide student awards to qualified individuals we receive flow-trough funds from donors and various levels of governments and other charities we educate and…

C$229k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$200k
C$13,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA NWTC$25,000
DECHINTA INITIATIVEC$20,000
NORTHERN ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTREC$17,000
WEST POINT FIRST NATIONC$15,000
KA'A'GEE TU FIRST NATIONC$15,000
CHARTER COMMUNITY OF K'ASHO GOT'INEC$15,000
PINNQUAQ FOUNDATIONC$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST TERRITORIESC$15,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$14,500
YELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETYC$13,000
Individual grant recipientC$13,000
THE SOUP KITCHENC$12,000
YELLOWKNIFE HISTORIAL SOCIETYC$10,075
YELLOWKNIFE SENIORS SOCIETYC$9,625
ECOLOGY NORTHC$7,350
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$107k · 4 repeat orgsC$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

C$107k
C$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$171k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$50k · revenue +66%
  • YN
    YWCA NWT
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$29k · revenue 0%
  • YW
    YELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$18k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$26k · revenue +12%
  • NL
    NWT LITERACY COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$12k · revenue +72%
  • NM
    NORTHERN MOSAIC NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k

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
Yukon University

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

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2
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation

The yellowstone to yukon conservation initiative foundation (y2y) works with a network of groups and individuals to preserve and maintain the wildlife plants wilderness and natural processes of the mountainous region from yellowstone…

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3
Yellowknife Education District # 1

We are a public education school district. we educate children from preschool to grade 12. we follow the government of the northwest territories education act.

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4
Yellowknife Daycare Association

The yellowknife day care association provides day care services and after school care for children in yellowknife northwest territories. as well as summer camps.

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5
Yukon Conservation Society

Nature interpretation & outdoor education; newsletter publication; organization of environmental & conservation workshops/events; outreach activities; research on environmental issues; habitat & wildlife studies; participation in…

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6
Yukon Fish & Game Association

The ongoing programs are designed with the goal of protecting wildlife and the environment with conservation initiatives such as fish tagging fish/wildlife studies public education/training through kid's camps & hunter education.

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7
Yukon Literacy Coalition

Family literacy financial literacy youth financial literacy constructing effective literacy & learning societies skills for success training and education partnership development work social enterprise training & development tourism &…

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8
Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust

The objective of the trust is to restore enhance and protect fish and wildlife population and their habitat i the yukon. its mandate is achieved by providing funds to various organizations that meet the trust objectives

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9
Yukon Historical & Museums Association

Understanding and promoting heritage and history in the Yukon. We continue to build a learning environment for history and culture and the development of skills and best practices in the heritage sector. We share knowledge with the Yukon…

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10
Yellowhead Indigenous Education Foundation

Advancement of knowledge sharing by providing funding programming publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of assistance to indigenous people for life-long learning

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11
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth

To facilitate hands-on and life-skills educational opportunities for indigenous youth through working on community projects that support the needs of the local community. project selection and development is carried out with local youth…

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12
Yukon Womens Transition Home Society

24 hour 15 bed shelter for women and children fleeing violence 10 unit affordable second stage housing for up to 18 months with possibility of extension. Support to women through referrals advocacy and peer counselling Assist and advocate…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowknife Women's Society and the most unlike its peers is The Soup Kitchen. 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

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYWCA NWT — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — C$26,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDECHINTA INITIATIVE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTRE — C$17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPINNQUAQ FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN — C$12,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNWT LITERACY COUNCIL — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ALBERTA AND NORTHWEST TERRI — C$10,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE HISTORIAL SOCIETY — C$10,075 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE SENIORS SOCIETY — C$9,625 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetECOLOGY NORTH — C$7,350 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE PUBLIC DENOMINATIONAL DISTRICT EDUCATION AUTHORI — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF YELLOWKNIFE — C$2,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN MOSAIC NETWORK — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL VOICE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVENS - A COMMUNITY FOR SENIORS — C$1,750 over 2y, 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.

United Way of Northwe…Makeway FoundationThe Canadian Red Cros…Canadian Women's Foun…Raymond James Canada …United Way East Ontar…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Northwest TerritoriesNT20.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northwest Territories · Makeway Foundation · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 28 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 foundations.

Source object 889101978:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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