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Yellowknife, NT · Public foundation

United Way of Northwest Territories

The organization raises money and allocates the funds to local community charities and non-profits to support the poor disadvantaged youth and other organizations throughout the nwt to build stronger communities.

C$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
115
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$208k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k50 grants · C$111k
  • C$10k–50k48 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$50k–250k17 grants · C$1.8M
C$11,750
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FIRST FOUNDATIONC$208,324
YELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETYC$158,657
NORTHERN MOSAIC NETWORKC$155,977
Individual grant recipientC$151,000
SOARING EAGLE FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$145,375
WEST POINT FIRST NATIONC$144,764
FORT SMITH METIS COUNCILC$123,700
YELLOWKNIVES DENE FIRST NATIONC$112,500
TOWN OF HAY RIVERC$85,500
HAY RIVER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTREC$83,000
Individual grant recipientC$75,000
HOME BASE YKC$65,730
VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERSC$60,405
FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF THE NWTC$60,056
LUTSEL K E DENE FIRST NATIONC$53,600
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Northwest Territories
C$5.2M
Alberta
C$271k
Ontario
C$105k
British Columbia
C$24k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$16k
Quebec
C$5k
Nunavut
C$2k
Nova Scotia
C$1k
Manitoba
C$730
New Brunswick
C$520
Saskatchewan
C$273

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.8M · 94 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
78

Total granted

C$4.8M
C$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$987k 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

  • SE
    SOARING EAGLE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$333k · revenue +98%
  • FF
    FOOD FIRST FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$297k · revenue +344% · 67% of their budget
  • YW
    YELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$260k · revenue +408%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$79k
  • GT
    GWICH'IN TRIBAL COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k
  • YK
    YAMOZHA KUE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$27k · revenue +173%

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.

1
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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2
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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3
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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4
People's Food Institute

Work with smaller indigenous northern remote communities focusing on building food sovereigty reganining traditional knowledge around land and food. Ongoing work- Coalition for Healthy School Food build awareness about the importance of…

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5
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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6
Sci Canada Foundation

Conservation efforts through conducting surveys anti-poaching programs predation studies wildlife restoration and harvest initiatives programs education through scholarship programs for college students apprentice hunter programs support…

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7
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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8
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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9
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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10
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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11
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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12
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grande Prairie Friendship Centre and the most unlike its peers is Fort Simpson Historical Society. 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

137 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. 137 of the 219 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/137
Grantees still filing
85/137
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOARING EAGLE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$332,577 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetFOOD FIRST FOUNDATION — C$296,833 over 8y, 67% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETY — C$259,745 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHERN MOSAIC NETWORK — C$203,083 over 6y, 34% of budgetYWCA NWT — C$142,669 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHAY RIVER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTRE — C$133,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetFOOD RESCUE (YELLOWKNIFE) — C$122,529 over 8y, 14% of budgetINCLUSION NWT — C$120,042 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF THE NWT — C$119,895 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetHOME BASE YK — C$96,137 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHAY RIVER PENTECOSTAL CHAPEL — C$89,850 over 2y, 67% of budgetHAY RIVER SOUP KITCHEN — C$80,322 over 8y, 20% of budgetInuvik Youth Centre — C$76,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$67,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEcology North — C$63,547 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNWT Breast Health — C$61,799 over 4y, 69% of budgetVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$60,405 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDRENS FIRST SOCIETY — C$59,622 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNWT LITERACY COUNCIL — C$57,230 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAVENS - A COMMUNITY FOR SENIORS — C$53,982 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINUVIK FOOD BANK — C$43,697 over 6y, 10% of budgetFORT SMITH ECUMENICAL GROUP - FOOD BANK/SOUP KITCHEN — C$43,607 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetBISHOP OF THE ARCTIC THE — C$40,720 over 7y, 15% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — C$39,247 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT #1 — C$35,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLET'S HELP SOCIETY ALBERTA — C$34,400 over 1y, 63% of budgetYAMOZHA KUE SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE SENIORS SOCIETY — C$25,707 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetDECHINTA INITIATIVES — C$25,323 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL — C$22,550 over 4y, 25% of budgetInuvik Homeless Shelter — C$22,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFORT SIMPSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$19,622 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$17,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN PARISH (ST. AIDENS ANGLICAN CHURCH PORT BLANDFORD) — C$17,550 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE PLAYSCHOOL ASSOCIATION — C$17,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetINUVIALUIT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$16,625 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTREE OF PEACE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$15,222 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGirl Guides of Canada — C$15,017 over 4y, 10% of budgetArctic Paws — C$15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFORT SMITH ANIMAL SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$12,553 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDECHCHO DIVISIONAL EDUCATION COUNCIL — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNWT SPCA — C$12,236 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNWT DISABILITIES COUNCIL — C$11,977 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Parents for French - NWT — C$11,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYellowknife Church of Christ — C$9,306 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAssociation Franco-culturelle de Yellowknife — C$9,222 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANTON TERRITORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,165 over 8y, 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.

  • Who funds SOARING EAGLE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWKNIFE WOMEN'S SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN MOSAIC NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NWT ↗
  • Who funds HAY RIVER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RESCUE (YELLOWKNIFE) ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSION NWT ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF THE NWT ↗
  • Who funds HOME BASE YK ↗
  • Who funds HAY RIVER PENTECOSTAL CHAPEL ↗
  • Who funds HAY RIVER SOUP KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds Inuvik Youth Centre ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Ecology North ↗
  • Who funds NWT Breast Health ↗
  • Who funds VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS FIRST SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NWT LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds AVENS - A COMMUNITY FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds INUVIK FOOD BANK ↗

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 Yellowknife Commu…Makeway FoundationAtco Electric EpicWalter and Duncan Gor…United Way Waterloo R…United Way Maritimes/…United Way of Kingsto…United Way of the Alb…Right To FoodThe Tenaquip Foundati…Taking It Global Yout…United Way Simcoe Mus…
The Yellowknife Community FoundationNT20.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Yellowknife Community Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Right To Food · The Tenaquip Foundation / la Fondation Tenaquip · Taking It Global Youth Association · United Way Simcoe Muskoka

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 219 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 890068547:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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