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St Catharines, ON · Public foundation

United Way Niagara

We raise money from the communities served through corporate employee and individual donations.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
292
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$292k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 292 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k250 grants · C$280k
  • C$10k–50k24 grants · C$598k
  • C$50k–250k17 grants · C$1.8M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$292k
C$511
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA Niagara RegionC$291,785
Big Brothers Big Sisters of NiagaraC$249,968
Community Care St. Catharines & ThoroldC$192,372
Canadian Mental Health Assocation Niagara BranchC$139,206
Start Me Up NiagaraC$136,173
Family Counselling Centre NiagaraC$134,482
Distress Centre of Niagara Inc.C$118,192
Learning Disabilities Association of NiagaraC$99,211
Positive Living NiagaraC$95,097
RAFT (Resource Association for Teens)C$81,927
Bethlehem Housing & Support ServicesC$77,254
BGC NiagaraC$75,000
Port CaresC$67,761
Community Care of West NiagaraC$64,354
The Hope CentreC$63,977
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 — 70% of grant dollars (C$14M). The 30% that went abroad (C$6.2M) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$5.2M
Manitoba
C$88k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$17k
Nova Scotia
C$16k
Quebec
C$10k
Saskatchewan
C$7k
Alberta
C$7k
British Columbia
C$3k
New Brunswick
C$981
Prince Edward Island
C$238

Beyond home — 30% of all-years giving (C$6.2M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 234 repeat orgsC$899k to everyone else

234 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

234
163

Total granted

C$20M
C$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+23%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$356k 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

  • NC
    NIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +88%
  • CC
    Community Care of St. Catharines & Thorold
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$992k · revenue +49%
  • YN
    YWCA Niagara Region
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$910k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • SA
    SEE ADDITIONAL SCHEDULE - OTHER AGENCIES
    one grant, 2022 · C$232k
  • R(
    RAFT (Resource Association for Teens)
    one grant, 2018 · C$64k
  • CC
    Community Care of West Niagara
    one grant, 2018 · C$51k

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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United Way Niagara

We raise money from the communities served through corporate employee and individual donations. the funds are distributed to other registered charities through an allocation process or as designated by the donors. we also carry out…

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2
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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3
Niagara Tournament of Hope

Donate funds for breast cancer research and detection and cancer support services

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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation

Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…

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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…

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7
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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8
Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation/Fondation Du Cancer De La Region D'ottawa

The ottawa regional cancer foundation is a supportive cancer care champion. we harness the power of our community to deliver life changing results for those affected by cancer. we offer a community cancer hub a single portal for local…

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9
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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10
Neo Kids Foundation

The purpose of the foundaiton is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north. amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment and other related expenditures incurred by health sciences…

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11
The Ontario Caregiver Organization

The Ontario Caregiver Organization exists to support Ontario's 4 million unpaid caregivers who provide physical and/or emotional support to a family member partner friend or neighbour in need. We work to amplify and spread existing…

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12
Autism Speaks Canada

Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region and the most unlike its peers is My Grandfather's Cat. 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

392 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. 392 of the 421 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)
103
Early backer (in before they grew)
367/392
Grantees still filing
266/392
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 budgetNIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$1,478,581 over 5y, 11% of budgetCommunity Care of St. Catharines & Thorold — C$992,066 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetYWCA Niagara Region — C$910,369 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$433,131 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION NIAGARA BRANCH — C$417,488 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA — C$417,090 over 4y, 16% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$359,698 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters North and West Niagara — C$331,842 over 4y, 11% of budgetYWCA Niagara Region — C$299,303 over 2y, 89% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association of Niagara — C$277,872 over 4y, 13% of budgetBethlehem Housing and Support Service — C$275,225 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way of South Niagara — C$259,097 over 2y, 22% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Niagara — C$257,496 over 3y, 21% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara — C$251,193 over 5y, 38% of budgetUnited Way of Niagara Falls and Fort Erie — C$237,421 over 2y, 13% of budgetDistress Centre of Niagara Inc. — C$214,828 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Care St. Catharines & Thorold — C$211,122 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetStrive Niagara — C$203,632 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFORT (The Foundation of Resources for Teens) — C$183,345 over 4y, 20% of budgetRAFT (Resource Association for Teens) — C$176,469 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMainstream - an Unsheltered Workshop — C$171,083 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Care of West Niagara — C$164,752 over 3y, 14% of budgetWESTVIEW CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — C$161,950 over 4y, 15% of budgetBGC Niagara — C$147,284 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Assocation Niagara Branch — C$142,468 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetStart Me Up Niagara — C$137,389 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEPILEPSY NIAGARA — C$136,695 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetFamily Counselling Centre Niagara — C$135,012 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Place - St. Catharines - Gillian's Place — C$133,564 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetQuest Community Health Centre — C$133,562 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTRE — C$132,248 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPORT CARES — C$127,360 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PLACE SOUTH NIAGARA — C$125,173 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNiagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre (Folk Ats Council of — C$124,252 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA of Niagara — C$114,428 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPositive Living Niagara — C$112,597 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNiagara Regional Sexual Assault Centre (CARSA) — C$102,652 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH NIAGARA — C$102,098 over 3y, 25% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association of Niagara — C$101,820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Niagara Second Stage Housing and Counselling — C$100,218 over 2y, 19% of budgetCommunity Living-Grimsby,Lincoln and West Lincoln — C$87,677 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnite Way of Winnipeg — C$86,090 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNiagara Victim Crisis Support Service Inc — C$85,687 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetRAFT (Resource Association for Teens) — C$82,772 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION — C$80,469 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCNIB — C$79,972 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBGC Niagara — C$78,370 over 5y, 19% of budgetHotel Dieu Shaver — C$77,773 over 5y, 1.6% 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…Wise Guys Charity FundThe Ontario Paper Tho…Ctfs Employees' Chari…The Branscombe Family…Niagara Region Police…United Way of South N…Barterpay It Forward …United Way of Canada …United Way of Niagara…The Allstate Foundati…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON55.9× affinity112 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 · Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · United Way of South Niagara · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada · United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie · The Allstate Foundation of Canada · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation

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 421 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 2024-03-31, 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 130532443:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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