Sault Ste. Marie, ON · Public foundation
United Way Sault Ste. Marie & Algoma District
Raising funds by means of public donations in order to aid in supporting recognized charities and benevolent enterprises federations and agencies.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$4k
- C$10k–50k10 grants · C$165k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY | C$60,000 |
| CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH OF SAULT STE MARIE | C$30,000 |
| SSM YMCA | C$22,500 |
| ALGOMA SUBSTANCE ABUSE REHABILITATION CENTRE (BRENTON HOUSE) | C$22,500 |
| WOMEN IN CRISIS | C$15,000 |
| CANADIAN HEARING SOCIETY | C$15,000 |
| ALGOMA FAMILY SERVICES | C$13,500 |
| SAULT SEARCH AND RESCUE | C$12,701 |
| SAULT STE MARIE ALCOHOL RECOVERY HOME | C$11,250 |
| ONTARIO MARCH OF DIMES | C$11,250 |
| CREDIT COUNSELLING SERVICE OF SAULT STE. MARIE AND DISTRICT | C$11,250 |
| ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS | C$3,750 |
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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- FYFAMILY YMCA4× · 2017–2020 · C$173k · revenue +80%
- CMCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH OF SAULT STE MARIE4× · 2017–2020 · C$150k · revenue +287%
- ASALGOMA SUBSTANCE ABUSE REHABILITATION CENTRE (BRETON HOUSE)4× · 2017–2020 · C$113k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCREDIT COUNSELLING SERVICE OF SAULT STE MARIE AND DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · C$15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Ottawa salus provides housing and support services to people with serious and persistent mental illness and substance use health. ottawa salus offers a variety of services to individuals living within its 14 properties or in the community.…
Crisis Response phone and text lines including mobile crisis and 988 support; Court Diversion programming for adult and youth; client case management; early psychosis intervention; forensics supportive housing; New Foundations and…
Emergency crisis assistance provision based on police agency and self referral. 24 hours 7 days a week emergency services in the district of algoma. assist in completing application and ongoing support to victims through the victim quick…
The Canadian Mental Health Association - Elgin Branch provides community support services to the County of Elgin which include: 24 hour Crisis/support line Individual and Group therapy culturally specific outreach workers case management…
Cmha provides rehabilition and support services to people with mental illness living in the community. the following programs are provided by community support workers: social/recreation residential permanent housing case management court…
Programs and services for the psychiatric community and their families. promotion of mental health public education on mental illness. client advocacy one-to-one support safe bed provision crisis intervention information and referral…
Recovery services for adults addicted to substances.
Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…
Mental health services for persons with acute or serious mental illness. services provided include counseling; supportive housing: community outreach support social/recreational/rehabilitation services; education; peer support;…
Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…
Protecting the well-being of children. child welfare/protection of children under the child & family services act. non-residential programs - to monitor families to ensure the safety and well-being of children. to make decisions on place…
Camh works to advance knowledge about addiction and mental health through providing patient care and carrying out research and education and serves as a provincial resource to clinical helathcare providers investigators and educators in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Algoma and the most unlike its peers is Ken Brown Recovery Home Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH OF SAULT STE MARIE ↗
- Who funds ALGOMA SUBSTANCE ABUSE REHABILITATION CENTRE (BRETON HOUSE) ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN HEARING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds SAULT SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAULT STE MARIE ALCOHOL RECOVERY HOME ↗
- Who funds ALGOMA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO MARCH OF DIMES ↗
- Who funds ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS ↗
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.
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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.