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Thunder Bay, ON · Public foundation

United Way of Thunder Bay

United way provides funding to several charitable organizations that provide human care services in these areas of service: counselling poverty & hunger children and youth services volunteer support rehabilitation/recreation crisis & emergency services services for seniors public safety & crime prevention community education &…

C$983k
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$113k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k73 grants · C$59k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$266k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$657k
C$494
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETYC$113,450
THUNDER BAY COUNSELLING CENTREC$101,433
OUR KIDS COUNT OF THUNDER BAYC$98,999
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIOC$68,292
COMMUNITY CLOTHING ASSISTANCEC$57,190
UNITED WAY CENTRAIDE CANADAC$56,015
LAKEHEAD SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCILC$55,800
SHKODAY ABINOJIIWAK OBIMIWEDOONC$55,076
EVERGREEN A UNITED NEIGHBOURHOODC$50,872
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WOMEN'S CENTREC$43,137
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUITION ASSOCIATION OF NOWC$32,618
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THUNDER BAYC$31,436
ST. ANDREW SOUP KITCHEN INCC$29,989
NORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIESC$26,600
VICTIM SERVICES OF KENORA & AREAC$21,449
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.8M · 226 repeat orgsC$224k to everyone else

226 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 141 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226
77

Total granted

C$9.8M
C$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+30%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$21k 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

  • TB
    THUNDER BAY COUNSELLING CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$844k · revenue +24%
  • OK
    OUR KIDS OUNT OF THUNDER BAY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$740k · revenue +183%
  • JH
    JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$653k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • MC
    MIKINAKOOS CHILDREN'S FUND
    one grant, 2020 · C$45k
  • KO
    KEEWAYTINOOK OKIMAKANAK COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$37k · revenue +224%
  • WD
    Wilderness Discovery Handi-Capable Centre
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +0%

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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Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Specialized and general hospital based health care for the people of Northwestern Ontario. Providing educational opportunities to students of the Northern School of Medicine in our roll as a teaching hospital.

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2
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation

The foundation provides funding to the thunder bay regional health sciences centre and other regional healthcare providers for the following: -purchase of medical equipment -capital construction projects -edcuations programs healthcare…

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3
Thunder Bay District Crime Stoppers Inc.

Thunder bay district crimestoppers is a civilian non-profit charitable organization that brings together the police services the media and the community in the fight against crime and contributing to an improved quality of life. the…

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4
The Children's Aid Society of the District of Thunder Bay

In the district of thunder bay we protect children and promote their well-being; strengthen the individual's and family's ability to provide for children in their care; strengthen the community's ablity to respond to the needs of children…

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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Toronto Wildlife Centre

As the busiest wildlife centre in the country every day communities rely on Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) for help. Staffed and equipped specially for wildlife medicine TWC's wildlife emergency hospital is the only one of its kind in the…

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9
Canadian Mental Health Association - North Bay and District

Mental health case management addictions treatment developmental peer support and psychosocial family programs employment centre mental health and law programs housing program properties

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10
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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11
Community Living Thunder Bay Foundation

To promote support and protect the status and interest of people with a developmental disability and the general well-being and welfare of such persons; To solicit receive and hold contributions of money and property; To raise and hold…

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12
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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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 Countryside Reformed Church. 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

279 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. 279 of the 309 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)
84
Early backer (in before they grew)
261/279
Grantees still filing
205/279
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 budgetTHUNDER BAY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$843,599 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetOUR KIDS OUNT OF THUNDER BAY — C$739,939 over 8y, 14% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$653,323 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetRegional Food Distribution Association of NWO — C$584,412 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetLAKEHEAD SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL — C$492,479 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetTHUNDER BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — C$399,539 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetShkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon — C$375,914 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetST. ANDREW SOUP KITCHEN INC — C$372,185 over 8y, 20% of budgetCommunity Clothing Assistance — C$326,156 over 8y, 12% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$298,607 over 8y, 55% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$290,919 over 7y, 13% of budgetNorthwestern Ontario Women's Centre — C$284,574 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHUNDER BAY FOOD BANK — C$249,359 over 8y, 53% of budgetEVERGREEN A UNITED NEIGHBOURHOOD — C$246,502 over 8y, 33% of budgetCHIDLREN'S CENTRE THUNDER BAY — C$202,676 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROOTS TO HARVEST — C$182,824 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetNorthwind Family Ministries — C$170,582 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHUNDER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$154,545 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCNIB — C$135,461 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Thunder Bay — C$134,955 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMarch of Dimes Canada — C$124,032 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE NWO — C$121,593 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetGATHERING OF RIVERS FOR COMMUNITY CARE — C$120,565 over 7y, 72% of budgetPositive Recreation Opportunities for Kids — C$99,841 over 8y, 12% of budgetCONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$93,314 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Hearing Society — C$88,361 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHUNDER BAY LITERACY GROUP — C$81,479 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$79,899 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHospice Northwest — C$79,766 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetCrisis Homes Inc o/a Faye Peterson Transition House — C$77,459 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE CANADA — C$75,522 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVolunteer Thunder Bay! — C$73,125 over 3y, 30% of budgetVictim Services Kenora & Area — C$71,496 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Ontario Archaeological Society — C$66,245 over 2y, 23% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS WORKERS SPEAKERS SCHOOL — C$57,732 over 7y, 27% of budgetThunder Bay Drug Awareness Committee — C$53,010 over 3y, 78% of budgetGEORGE JEFFREY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$51,625 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetBEENDIGEN INCORPORATED — C$50,617 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSt. Joseph's Foundation of Thunder Bay — C$47,185 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION OF THUNDER BAY — C$47,084 over 7y, 14% of budgetPRECIOUS BUNDLES CLOTHING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$42,500 over 2y, 82% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THUNDER BAY & DISTRICT — C$36,348 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHope Air — C$32,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLakehead University — C$30,526 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society - TB — C$30,309 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMA'MO'WEH WII'SOO'KA'TIWIN FOUNDATION — C$30,307 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROGRAM — C$30,007 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetRedwood Park Church — C$29,697 over 5y, 0.8% 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 THUNDER BAY COUNSELLING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds OUR KIDS OUNT OF THUNDER BAY ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Regional Food Distribution Association of NWO ↗
  • Who funds LAKEHEAD SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Shkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon ↗
  • Who funds ST. ANDREW SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Clothing Assistance ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN A UNITED NEIGHBOURHOOD ↗
  • Who funds CHIDLREN'S CENTRE THUNDER BAY ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS TO HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds Northwind Family Ministries ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD ↗
  • Who funds CNIB ↗
  • Who funds Shelterhouse Thunder Bay ↗
  • Who funds March of Dimes Canada ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE NWO ↗
  • Who funds GATHERING OF RIVERS FOR COMMUNITY CARE ↗
  • Who funds Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids ↗
  • Who funds CONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Hearing Society ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY LITERACY GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Northwest ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Homes Inc o/a Faye Peterson Transition House ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY CENTRAIDE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Volunteer Thunder Bay! ↗
  • Who funds Victim Services Kenora & Area ↗
  • Who funds The Ontario Archaeological Society ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS WORKERS SPEAKERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Thunder Bay Drug Awareness Committee ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE JEFFREY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEENDIGEN INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds St. Joseph's Foundation of Thunder Bay ↗

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.

Thunder Bay Community…John Andrews Foundati…The Paterson Foundati…The Ukrainian Catholi…Hydro One Employees' …Church of the Holy Cr…Lakehead District Sch…Ontario Power Generat…Our Saviour's Luthera…Bethlehem Christian R…The Sisters of St Jos…Thunder Bay Police As…
Thunder Bay Community FoundationON52× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunder Bay Community Foundation · John Andrews Foundation · The Paterson Foundation · The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Eastern Canada · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Church of the Holy Cross · Lakehead District School Board Employees Charity Trust Fund · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of Thunder Bay · Bethlehem Christian Reformed Church · The Sisters of St Joseph of Sault Ste Marie · 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 309 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 foundations.

Source object 129820387:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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