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Thunder Bay, ON · Public foundation

Thunder Bay Community Foundation

Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community

C$603k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k25 grants · C$110k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$278k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$215k
C$6,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$135,000
THUNDER BAY COMMUNITY AUDITORIUMC$80,038
OUR KIDS COUNT OF THUNDER BAY INC.C$47,837
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY - THE THUNDER BAY NATIONALC$40,217
THUNDER BAY AND DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETYC$31,470
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THUNDER BAYC$23,000
ROOTS COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$19,483
CONFEDERATION COLLEGEC$16,000
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERNC$15,000
COMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECTC$14,370
THUNDER BAY FOOD BANKC$12,759
MAGNUS THEATRE COMPANY NORTHWEST INCORPORATEDC$12,500
ST. JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION OF THUNDER BAYC$12,000
ST. ANDREW SOUP KITCHEN INC.C$12,000
HOSPICE NORTHWESTC$11,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 90% of grant dollars (C$4.4M). The 10% that went abroad (C$503k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 10% of all-years giving (C$503k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 62 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

62 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
81

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+78%

Still filing today

90%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SA
    Salvation Army
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$357k · revenue ×52
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$208k · revenue +19%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THUNDER BAY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$162k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • EC
    EMERGENCY COMMUNITY SUPPORT FUND GRANTS
    one grant, 2020 · C$440k
  • AC
    AAA COVID-19 FUND GRANTS
    one grant, 2020 · C$159k
  • TB
    THUNDER BAY COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM
    one grant, 2020 · C$67k · revenue -100%

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

04Your 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.

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Community Safety Initiatives Thunder Bay
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Leadership Thunder Bay

Leadership thunder bay is an organization which operates a program aimed at creating networks of diverse leaders who explore issues facing thunder bay and strengthening the skills to inspire and engage others in building a strong and…

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Thunder Bay Community Foundation

Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community

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4
Thunder Bay Police Association
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5
Thunder Bay Therapeutic Riding Association

To provide therapy to individuals who have a physical emotional or mental disability by giving them the opportunity to ride horses with the assistance of volunteers.

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6
Community Living Thunder Bay

Community Living Thunder Bay provides services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.

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7
Native People of Thunder Bay Development Corp

Purchase maintain operate non-profit housing for low-end income native families and elders rent-geared-to- income rents to keep tenants and families in our housing program for native people off-reserve

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8
Thunder Bay Conservatory of Music

We operate educational music programming for children and adults year round; recital programs; a community orchestra. we produce educational chamber concerts and lectures.

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9
Thunder Bay and Area Victim Services

Program delivery of assistance and referral services to victims of crime or tragic circumstances through funding by the ministry of children community and social services along with donations and fundraising.

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10
Thunder Bay Family Network

Events of an educational nature to support individuals with disabilities and families to plan a secure future. Promotion to community to raise awareness and build capacity. ICAN! Network encourages young adult engagement.

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11
Brain Injury Association of Thunder Bay and Area

The association supports people of all ages living with the effects of an acquired brain injury through education public awareness information and advocacy. it continues to develop locally provided peer support programs sponsored through…

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12
Volunteer Action Centre of Thunder Bay

Volunteer support and services for non-profit/charitable sector - promote volunteerism - public education for non-profit organizations and volunteers

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Thunder Bay and the most unlike its peers is Cambrian Players. 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

98 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. 98 of the 151 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/98
Grantees still filing
76/98
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 budgetSalvation Army — C$357,450 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$225,819 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$208,103 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THUNDER BAY — C$162,131 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetOUR KIDS COUNT OF THUNDER BAY INC. — C$141,578 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetTHUNDER BAY COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM — C$121,465 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY THUNDER BAY — C$116,266 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHUNDER BAY AND DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETY — C$99,761 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetHOSPICE NORTHWEST — C$88,763 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetST.JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION OF THUNDER BAY — C$86,150 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetST ANDREW SOUP KITCHEN INC. — C$75,107 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetNorthwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre Non-endowed... — C$73,231 over 2y, 75% of budgetMAGNUS THEATRE COMPANY NORTHWEST INCORPORATED — C$70,832 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetROOTS COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$66,298 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetELEVATE NWO (AIDS COMMITTEE OF THUNDER BAY) — C$63,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$61,517 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THUNDER BAY — C$58,625 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetST JOHN AMBULANCE — C$56,168 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECT — C$51,892 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$51,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY ART GALLERY - THE THUNDER BAY NATIONAL — C$50,326 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUrban Abbey — C$49,766 over 1y, 14% of budgetGeorge Jeffery Children's Foundation — C$49,280 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (TBSYO) — C$48,717 over 4y, 58% of budgetLakehead Transportation Museum Society — C$47,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FINNISH LABOUR TEMPLE INC — C$35,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetShelter House Thunder Bay — C$33,686 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$32,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEANOR DRURY CHILDREN'S THEATRE — C$32,059 over 4y, 41% of budgetMIKINAKOOS CHILDREN'S FUND — C$32,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetLUTHERAN COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE THUDNER BAY — C$31,997 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORHTERN NISHNAWBE EDUCATION COUNCIL — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetP.R.O. KIDS — C$28,422 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUNDERGROUND GYM — C$24,026 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$23,550 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetIsthmus:Because Hunger doesn't take weekends off — C$22,560 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHING ASSISTANCE — C$21,950 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSt. Thomas Anglican Church Family Giving Centre — C$21,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED FOR LITERACY (FORMERLY FRONTIER COLLEGE) — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$19,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP QUALITY CANADA — C$19,326 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPRECIOUS BUNDLES CHILDREN'S CLOTHING ASSITANCE PROGRAM — C$19,100 over 4y, 34% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$18,935 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$18,933 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY FOOD BANK — C$18,044 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetLAKEHEAD SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBEENDIGEN INCORPORATED — C$13,450 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Thunder…The Paterson Foundati…John Andrews Foundati…The Ukrainian Catholi…Church of the Holy Cr…Lakehead District Sch…Hydro One Employees' …First-Wesley United C…Our Saviour's Luthera…Ontario Power Generat…Dayna Elizabeth Karle…Thunder Bay Police As…
United Way of Thunder BayON52× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Thunder Bay · The Paterson Foundation · John Andrews Foundation · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Church of the Holy Cross · Lakehead District School Board Employees Charity Trust Fund · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · First-Wesley United Church · Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of Thunder Bay · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Dayna Elizabeth Karle (Dek) Addiction Recovery Foundation · Thunder Bay Police Association

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 151 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 supportive health care.

Source object 119264224:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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