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St Catharines, ON · Public foundation

Wise Guys Charity Fund

The Wise Guys Charity Fund is a registered charitable organization without share capital.

C$314k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$289k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McNally House HospiceC$40,000
FACS Niagara FoundationC$25,000
West Lincoln Memorial Hospital FoundationC$25,000
Hospice NiagaraC$25,000
Port CaresC$25,000
Habitat for HumanityC$25,000
Niagara Olympic ClubC$20,000
Community Care of St CatharinesC$20,000
Niagara Safety VillageC$16,586
Anglicans in Action (Anglican Diocese of Niagara)C$15,000
NOTL Public LibraryC$12,000
Garden City ProductionsC$10,509
Niagara Sexual Assault CentreC$10,000
Niagara Regional Native CentreC$10,000
Niagara Children's CentreC$10,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 32 repeat orgsC$805k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
50

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$725k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

94%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$80k 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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$150k · revenue +35%
  • PC
    Port Cares
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$95k · revenue +59%
  • MH
    MCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE
    3× · 2018–2024 · C$92k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • SN
    STRIVE NIAGARAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$60k · revenue +86%
  • WP
    WOMENS PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +28%
  • RR
    RED ROOF RETREAT
    one grant, 2019 · C$32k · revenue +9%

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
Niagara Concerts
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2
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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3
Niagara College Foundation
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4
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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5
Information Niagara Inc.
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6
Ymca of Niagara

We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By create safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA is committed to ensuring everyone…

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7
Sport By Ability Niagara Inc
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8
Down Syndrome Niagara
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9
Niagara Artists' Company

Presentation of contemporary visual art exhibitions and events workshops for professional development of artists and youth. providing equipment and facilities for creation and production of contemporary visual and media arts.

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10
Niagara Health System

Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services and the most unlike its peers is Fonds Foyer Richelieu Welland. 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

74 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. 74 of the 89 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
51/74
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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWELLSPRING NIAGARA — C$105,880 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFONDS FOYER RICHELIEU — C$100,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPort Cares — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMCNALLY HOUSE HOSPICE — C$92,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNIAGARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$85,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFACS Niagara Foundation — C$76,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWest Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHospice Niagara — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOTEL DIEU SHAVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$74,570 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSTRIVE NIAGARA — C$60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBETHESDA COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Care of St. Catharines — C$51,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGRIMSBY AUX MARINE — C$50,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetNiagara Falls Community Health Centre — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENS PLACE OF SOUTH NIAGARA — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYWCA — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$46,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATHSTONE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ST CATH/THOROLD — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE OF WEST NIAGARA — C$40,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE — C$39,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNOTL PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$38,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTLAND FOREST — C$33,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAUTISM ONTARIO NIAGARA REGION CHAPTER — C$32,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRED ROOF RETREAT — C$32,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN NIAGARA FALLS OUTREACH — C$29,456 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSOCKS 4 CHANGE — C$27,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWESTVIEW CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING PORT COLBORNE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNIAGARA FURNITURE BANK — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKristen French Child Advocacy Centre — C$23,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION NIAGARA — C$21,853 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLincoln Pelham Public Library — C$20,504 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAVE SPRINGS CAMP INC — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMomentum Choir — C$17,422 over 1y, 22% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NIAGARA — C$17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNiagara Safety Village — C$16,586 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetATTCH Niagara — C$15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS ART GALLERY — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAnglicans in Action (Anglican Diocese of Niagara) — C$15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE YELLOW DOOR THEATRE PROJECT — C$13,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetGATEWAY NIAGARA — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget1ST ST CATHARINES SCOUTS — C$12,895 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGarden City Productions — C$10,509 over 1y, 4.5% 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 NiagaraCtfs Employees' Chari…Niagara Region Police…The Branscombe Family…The Ontario Paper Tho…Rotary Club of St. Ca…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Barterpay It Forward …St. Andrew's United C…Silver Spire United C…Erwin Taylor Charitab…
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON51.8× affinity57 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 · Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · The Branscombe Family Foundation · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · Rotary Club of St. Catharines Charitable Trust · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · St. Andrew's United Church · Silver Spire United Church · Erwin Taylor Charitable Foundation

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 89 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 2024-10-31, 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 886717859:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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