Saskatoon, SK · Public foundation
Western Grains Research Foundation
The WESTERN GRAINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (wgrf) supports and conducts research (through intermediaries) in grain production including the development of new crops and varieties weed disease adn insect control crop production and harvesting techniques herbicide and fertilizer effectiveness and soils and resource management.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$14k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$51k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$200k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$388k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN | C$387,714 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | C$100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA | C$100,000 |
| HAYWIRE CREATIVE INC. | C$21,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE | C$15,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | C$15,000 |
| PRAIRIE CERTIFIED CROP ADVISER BOARD | C$7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$6,300 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +16%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA4× · 2021–2024 · C$400k · revenue +18%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA3× · 2021–2023 · C$300k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAone grant, 2024 · C$100k
- HCHAYWIRE CREATIVE INC.one grant, 2024 · C$21k
- PCPRAIRIE CERTIFIED CROP ADVISER BOARDone grant, 2024 · C$8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
5 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. 5 of the 10 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.