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St Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie

United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie continues to work towards improving the lives of people in our community by raising funds and investing them directly into social and human services programs in Niagara Falls and Fort Erie.

C$807k
Granted FY2018
35
Grants FY2018
1
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$88k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$289k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$429k
C$11,031
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NIAGARA FALLSC$102,642
FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTREC$88,986
YWCA NIAGARA REGIONC$88,910
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARAC$75,390
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARAC$72,838
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA REGIONC$30,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH NIAGARAC$28,946
FORT ERIE MULTICULTURAL CENTREC$24,878
AUTISM ONTARIO NIAGARA CHAPTERC$24,400
WOMEN'S PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARAC$23,981
BETHLEHEM HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICESC$22,872
DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARAC$21,715
EPILEPSY NIAGARAC$19,186
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARAC$14,585
INCOMMUNITIES (INFORMATION NIAGARA)C$13,323
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 25 repeat orgsC$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -73% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
2

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-73%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Niagara Falls
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$205k · revenue +94% · 32% of their budget
  • YN
    YWCA Niagara Region
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$178k · revenue +242%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$151k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • FM
    Family Mental Health Support Network
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • AL
    Adult Literacy Council of Greater Fort Erie
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue -73%

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
Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc.

Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc. provides community based rehabilitation services to persons living with the affects of an acquired brain injury. Services include supportive housing friendly visiting personal care life skills…

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2
Niagara Training and Employment Agency Inc.

Provision of employment oriented training programs for persons with developmental disabilities in the niagara region. also provide an out of home respite program with developmental disabilities.

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3
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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4
Niagara Support Services

Provision of adult residential services day programs family support autism classroom preschool and intervenor services for persons with developmental disabilities.

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5
Epilepsy Niagara

Public education and support services for people living with epilepsy within the niagara region.

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6
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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7
Niagara Children's Centre

The centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges

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8
Niagara Resource Service for Youth

Operate a drop-in centre and crisis housing program for street youth and community-based youth programs in the niagara region. provide counselling referral and access to the other services food clothing recreational social support crisis…

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9
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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10
Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (Attch) Niagara

ATTCH Niagara provides free and low cost trauma specialize therapy to those who could not otherwise afford it. Services include the following: Trauma specific therapy for marginalized children and youth; family and group therapy and skills…

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11
Community Support Services of Niagara Region

Meals on wheels congregate dining volunteer transportation visiting and social safety service arrangements and coordination homemaking fall prevention and wellness supportive housing

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12
Inclusion West Niagara

Group homes and independent services - we provide adult and children group homes and provide needed support for those living more independently. family support services - providing support to families who have a family member with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Forest Nature Experience. 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

32 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. 32 of the 37 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
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 budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Association of Niagara Falls — C$205,284 over 2y, 32% of budgetYWCA Niagara Region — C$177,820 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA — C$150,780 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA — C$145,676 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association of Niagara — C$76,065 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of South Niagara — C$59,778 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetDistress Centre of Niagara — C$48,956 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWomen's Place of South Niagara — C$47,962 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBethlehem Housing and Support Services — C$45,744 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEpilepsy Niagara — C$43,372 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFORT ERIE MULTICULTURAL CENTRE — C$35,027 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAUTISM ONTARIO NIAGARA CHAPTER — C$33,993 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPositive Living Niagara — C$33,170 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINCommunities — C$26,764 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels — C$25,180 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCanadian National Institute for the Blind — C$22,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStrive Niagara — C$22,062 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNiagara Nutrition Partners operated by Community Care of St. — C$19,186 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, NIAGARA PENINSULA CHAPTER OF HOP — C$18,226 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Forest — C$17,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSt. John Ambulance, Niagara Falls Branch — C$16,892 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING PORT COLBORNE - WAINFLEET — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT ERIE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE INC. — C$9,772 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT NETWORK — C$9,593 over 1y, 17% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FORT ERIE — C$9,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGATEWAY RESIDENTIAL AND COMMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NIAGA — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF FORT ERIE — C$4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLITERACY LINK NIAGARA — C$3,880 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG CARER'S INITIATIVE — C$3,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAdult Literacy Council of Greater Fort Erie — C$3,400 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFAITH TABERNACLE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY — C$3,150 over 1y, 0.4% 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 NiagaraThe Branscombe Family…Ctfs Employees' Chari…United Way of South N…Wise Guys Charity FundSt. Andrew's United C…Stamford Lane United …The Ontario Paper Tho…Niagara Region Police…Hamilton Community Fo…United Way Golden Hor…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON24.7× affinity22 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 · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · United Way of South Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · St. Andrew's United Church · Stamford Lane United Church · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · Hamilton Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe

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 37 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 2018-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization.

Source object 119260545:2018-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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