Burlington, ON · Charitable organization
Appleby United Church
We are a congregation of the United Church of Canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$11k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Church of Canada | C$18,130 |
| Wesley Urban Ministries | C$13,860 |
| Reach Out Centre for Kids | C$4,100 |
| Burlington Food Bank | C$3,715 |
| Canadian Central America Relief Effort | C$1,500 |
| Children Believe | C$738 |
| Halton Womens Place | C$523 |
| Shifra Homes | C$500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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
- UCUnited Church of Canada5× · 2017–2022 · C$120k · revenue +22%
- WUWesley Urban Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · C$45k · revenue +96%
- PWPartnership West Family Support Network5× · 2017–2023 · C$19k · revenue +457%
Funded once
- BFBurlington Food Bankone grant, 2022 · C$3k
- ROReach Out Centre For Kidsone grant, 2020 · C$600 · revenue -61%
- HWHALTON WOMEN'S PLACEone grant, 2018 · C$479
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.
Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…
HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…
We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…
To promote health and relieve poverty in developing nations by providing individuals families and communities who are poor or in need with health care services products and information that prevent and manage serious threats to health and…
Building affordable decent homes for eligible families
Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…
Health Programs: Deliver medical care and health education to underserved communities. Education Programs: Enhance literacy and education through school construction scholarships teachers training and educational materials. Emergency…
Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…
Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Halton Women's Place and the most unlike its peers is Reach Out Centre for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 United Church of Canada ↗
- Who funds Wesley Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds Partnership West Family Support Network ↗
- Who funds Reach Out Centre for Kids ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CENTRAL AMERICA RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Halton Womens Place ↗
- Who funds Shifra Homes ↗
- Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
- Who funds Children Believe ↗
- Who funds SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds Reach Out Centre For Kids ↗
- Who funds Hope for Sierra Leone (Transfomations Canada) ↗
- Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity ↗
- Who funds Hospital for Sick Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH BRANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · Burlington Community Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Burlington North Foundation Inc. · The Rotary Club of Burlington-Lakeshore Trust Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Halton Columbus Charities · New Street Christian Reformed Church · JTC Heersink Foundation · United Way of Oakville · Hamilton Community Foundation · Canada Gives
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.