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St Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

Unitarian Congregation of Niagara

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C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$565
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$509k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUT OF THE COLDC$565
RAFTC$500
START ME UP NIAGARAC$500
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARAC$500
NIAGARA REGIONAL NATIVE CENTERC$500
GILLIAN'S PLACEC$500
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15k · 12 repeat orgsC$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

C$15k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • PL
    POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +141%
  • SM
    START ME UP NIAGARA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +22%
  • R
    RAFT
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • SS
    SILVER SPIRE UNITED CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +33%
  • CU
    CANADIAN - UKRAINIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$710
  • WC
    WESTVIEW CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · C$600 · revenue -74%

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.

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Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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West Niagara Affordable Housing
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3
Westview Centre 4 Women

Offers essential services to those struggling with homelessness incomes below the poverty line social isolation addiction and mental health issues. We provide a community of services including hot meals clothing food pantry laundry…

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4
Niagara Victim Crisis Support Service Inc

Immediate short term crisis intervention for victims of crime or tragic circumstances within niagara region. emotional support counselling programs and services for victims.

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5
Grow- Community Food Literacy Centre

Grow's mission is to provide healthy and accessible food for all. grow reduces food insecurity with dignity builds capacity and community fosters sustainability to support health belonging and social justice in niagara falls through food…

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6
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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7
Niagara Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Humane Society

Niagara spca operates an animal shelter clinic and provides animal control services in the niagara region.

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8
West Niagara Second Stage Housing & Counselling Inc

Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.

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9
Women's Place of South Niagara Inc.

Shelter for abused women and their children - 24 hour crisis line - individual (one to one) and group counselling - court support service - transitional housing support services - support services for children and youth - volunteers…

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10
North York Women's Resource Centre

NYWC delivers programs for women by women. Programs include: • Women’s Empowerment – A skill-based series that builds on women’s strengths and personal power to promote self-confidence and success. • Violence Prevention and Support…

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11
Community Animal Allies of Niagara

Adoptions tnr low income spay neuter shelter of homeless pets foster homes pet retention sanctuary for feral cats finding lost pets subsidized vet care for low income owners.

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12
Community Addiction Services of Niagara

Assessment referral and outpatient counselling for niagara region residents with substance abuse and gambling problems and their families

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Start Me Up Niagara and the most unlike its peers is Westview Christian Fellowship. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA — C$2,230 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$2,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAFT — C$2,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SPIRE UNITED CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — C$1,760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITARIAN SERVICE COMMITTEE — C$1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS SOCIETY — C$1,100 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetNIAGARA REGIONAL NATIVE CENTER — C$950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGILLIAN'S PLACE — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTVIEW CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — C$600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY ECUMENCIAL CHAPLAINCY — C$556 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANIMAL OUTREACH (CEDAR ROW FARM SANCTUARY) — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE ISLAMIQUE DE QUEBEC — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT AND PEACE — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN UNITARIANS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE — C$40 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.

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.

Niagara Community Fou…United Way NiagaraTrillium United ChurchSt Davids Queenston U…Niagara Region Police…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…The Branscombe Family…United Way Golden Hor…Abundance CanadaVancouver FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…United Way East Ontar…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON10.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · United Way Niagara · Trillium United Church · St Davids Queenston United Church · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · The Branscombe Family Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Abundance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 23 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 108077777:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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