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Winnipeg, MB · Private foundation

Thomas Sill Foundation Inc.

The foundation makes grants to qualified donees that are operating charitable programs in manitoba.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2023
137
Grants FY2023
4
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k55 grants · C$257k
  • C$10k–50k80 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Boniface Hospital FoundationC$50,000
Assiniboine Park ConservancyC$50,000
West Central Women's Resource CentreC$40,000
Health Sciences Centre FoundationC$30,000
BGC Winnipeg Inc.C$30,000
Manitoba Camping AssociationC$30,000
Toba Centre for Children and Youth Inc.C$30,000
Norwest Coop Community Health Centre Inc.C$30,000
DASCH Foundation Inc.C$30,000
Seed Winnipeg Inc.C$25,000
YMCA of BrandonC$25,000
Community Education Development AssociationC$25,000
St. John's AmbulanceC$25,000
Christmas Cheer Board of WinnipegC$24,000
Salvation ArmyC$22,000
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.2M · 147 repeat orgsC$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

147 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2023, 79 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
272

Total granted

C$5.2M
C$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+24%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$702k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • SM
    Siloam Mission
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$172k · revenue +98%
  • SW
    SEED WINNIPEG INC.
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$154k · revenue +69%
  • AP
    ASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$150k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MC
    Manitoba Crafts Museum and Librarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$87k · revenue +39% · 65% of their budget
  • NH
    Nova House Inc.
    one grant, 2017 · C$75k · revenue +5%
  • SH
    Salem Home Inc.
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +25%

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
Winnipeg Housing Rehabilitation Corporation

Providing subsidized rental housing to low-income families; developing neighbourhood strategies for lower income households

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2
Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.

Winnipeg arts council inc. funds and supports artists and arts organizations. we initiate and promote development of the arts for the people of winnipeg.

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3
Manitoba Arts Council

Provide programs of support to mb arts and cultural organizations and artists. this includes professional development grants creation and presentation arts education and capacity building. provide grant support to indigenous artists and…

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4
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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5
Beginning Experience of Winnipeg Inc
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6
Manitoba Theatre Centre Foundation

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

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7
Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation

Manitoba habitat conservancy (mhc) is manitoba's leading habitat and wildlife-focused charity directly implementing voluntary long-term conservation through perpetual conservation agreements and habitat improvement through restoration and…

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8
Winnipeg Inner City Youth Futures Fund Inc.
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9
Manitoba Library Association Inc.

A not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in the promotion development and support of library and information services in Manitoba for the benefit of MLA members the library and information community and the citizens of…

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10
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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11
University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation

To support the university of winnipeg by developing a sustainable university community that promotes the attractiveness of the university to its faculty staff students and the greater community. it manages projects on behalf of the…

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12
Winnipeg Film Group Inc.

Promotion and development of the art of moving images - provision of equipment and facilities support to filmmakers for production and marketing. distribution of films nationally and international. educational programs and conduct…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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

434 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. 434 of the 484 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.

23
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
134
Early backer (in before they grew)
420/434
Grantees still filing
313/434
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSiloam Mission — C$172,100 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSEED WINNIPEG INC. — C$154,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVANCY — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBGC WINNIPEG INC. — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSt. Boniface Hospital Foundation — C$145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVariety the children's charity of Manitoba — C$145,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$144,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLake Winnipeg Foundation Inc. — C$135,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetHARVEST MANITOBA — C$127,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetManitoba Camping Association — C$120,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTH EAST CHAPTER — C$120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER BOARD OF WINNIPEG — C$117,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetNeubergthal Heritage Foundation — C$115,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMcDonald Youth Services — C$115,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Winnipeg Foundation — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth End Community Renewal Corp. — C$90,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetManitoba Crafts Museum and Library — C$87,200 over 1y, 65% of budgetNova House Inc. — C$75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTides Canada Foundation — C$75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$67,100 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHealth Sciences Centre Foundation — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jubilee Fund Inc. — C$60,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPrison Fellowship Canada — C$58,200 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSamaritan House Ministries Inc. — C$55,600 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetIISD EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA INC. — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNorwest Coop Community Health Centre Inc. — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Manitoba — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBookmates Inc. — C$54,300 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCareer Trek — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSalem Home Inc. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRight to Play International Inc. — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL AVIATION OF WESTERN CANADA INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrace Hospital Foundation Inc. — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYMCA of Brandon — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMennonite Heritage Village (Canada) Inc. — C$45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFORT WHYTE ALIVE — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Arts Centre Foundation — C$42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE PLACE WORKSHOP INC. — C$40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCNIB — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Assoc of Canada — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARYMOUND INC. — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetToba Centre for Children and Youth Inc. — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWest Central Women's Resource Centre — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Winnipeg Inc. — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHR BRUCE OAKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLake Winnipeg Research Consortium — C$39,100 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetThe Friend of Elmwood Cemetery Inc. — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Canadian CED Network — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

The Jewish Foundation…The Winnipeg Foundati…The Pollard Family Fo…The Gail Asper Family…The Ernst Hansch Foun…Winnipeg Arts Council…Price Family Foundati…Manitoba Arts CouncilGraham C. Lount Famil…Wellington West Found…The Cardinal Foundati…All Charities Campaign
The Jewish Foundation of ManitobaMB40.9× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Winnipeg Foundation · The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · The Ernst Hansch Foundation Inc. · Winnipeg Arts Council Inc. · Price Family Foundation Inc. · Manitoba Arts Council · Graham C. Lount Family Foundation Inc. · Wellington West Foundation Inc. · The Cardinal Foundation · All Charities Campaign

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 484 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 2023-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 119263408:2023-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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