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North York, ON · Charitable organization

Autism Speaks Canada

Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and services increasing understanding acceptance and inclusion for people with autism spectrum…

C$901k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$110k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$91k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$700k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRENC$700,000
THE GOVERNORS OF UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$40,918
PARENTS OF BLACK CHILDRENC$25,000
UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUEC$25,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Dora-Lee Kyle-FC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.4M · 8 repeat orgsC$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +202% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
46

Total granted

C$7.4M
C$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+202%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$160k 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

  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +30%
  • HB
    HOLLAND BLOORVIEW
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$944k · revenue +44%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$546k · revenue ×1,050

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · C$218k
  • TG
    The Governors of the University of Alberta
    one grant, 2018 · C$186k
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2022 · C$185k

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
The Autism Centre of Canada

Providing resources consultation and guidance to individuals and parents with developmental disabilities.

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2
Autism Society Canada / Société Canadienne De L'autisme

Knowledge hub for families and persons on the autism spectrum; influencing public at the national level; collaboration with provincial and territorial associations to share best practices and increase fundraising capacity through national…

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3
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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4
Society for Autism Support and Services (Calgary Region)

Services and supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families including: diagnostic and assessment services residential treatment toddler program early intervention and preschool programming consultation services…

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5
Autism Alliance of Canada

Autism alliance of canada is a pan-canadian not-for-profit coalition with a membership of sector leaders including autistic people caregivers clinicians researchers and representatives from organizations across the country. the alliance…

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6
Society for the Treatment of Autism

Autism treatment services of canada is a national affiliation of an organization that provides a plan to provide treatment education management and consultation services to people with autism and related disorders across canada

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7
Geneva Centre for Autism

We offer: - a wide range of clinical services which are determined individually for each person with asd: preschool and school-aged children and their families individuals over 18 years of age; - comprehensive education and training…

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8
Autism Speaks Canada

Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and…

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9
Autism Calgary Association

Family public and community education; information and referral; advocacy; community presentations; in-house services and conferences; peer to peer networking; community based events providing opportunities for social interaction between…

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10
Autism Support Network Society

Providing education programs and funding for research into autism and autism spectrum disorders. particularly with respect to intensive behavioural treatment based on the principles of applied behavior analysis to help canadian individuals…

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11
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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12
Autism Science Foundation Canada

Asf canada's mission is to fund breakthrough research to improve the lives of people with autism. asf canada provides funds to support university-based research in canada. asf canada board members have presented at national conferences and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Society Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology. 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

44 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. 44 of the 79 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
38/44
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 budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$5,269,246 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW — C$944,019 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$546,222 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE — C$300,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$84,184 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AUTISM AWARENESS CENTRE — C$80,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$78,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$70,936 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISAND — C$65,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSaskatchewan Abilities Council Inc. — C$64,758 over 1y, 25% of budgetOPEN SKY CO-OPERATIVE LTD. — C$55,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$44,982 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Resource Center — C$40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEdmonton Circle of Friends Society Inc — C$40,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetShuswap Children's Association — C$40,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAutism Society Ontario — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKerry's Place Autism Services — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM EDMONTON — C$40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIEND 2 FRIEND SOCIAL LEARNING SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGiant Steps School Montreal — C$40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SINNEAVE FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAutism Society Alberta — C$40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOODVIEW MENTAL HEALTH AND AUTISM SERVICES — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSENECA COLLEGE — C$39,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING TORONTO — C$39,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Quebec — C$39,048 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBrandon University — C$37,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN ADA[PTIVE SNOWSPORTS — C$35,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING YORK SOUTH — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN ABILITIES COUNCIL — C$34,787 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Autism Services of Edmonton — C$29,959 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetposAbilities Association of British Columbia — C$28,810 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN AT RISK OTTAWA — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPROSET AUTISM — C$25,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRE - SIR WILFRID LAURIER SCHOOL BOARD — C$25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$23,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Yukon — C$23,040 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Nelson Family Development Society — C$16,848 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAutism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBridges to Belonging — C$14,277 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGeneva Centre for Autism — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAutism Society Newfoundland and Labrador — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Unity for AutismGoodlife Kids Foundat…Els For Autism CanadaCo-operators Communit…The Azrieli Foundatio…Kids Up Front Foundat…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Canada Post Community…Charities Aid Foundat…The Tenaquip Foundati…The Catherine and Max…Toronto Foundation
Unity for AutismON15.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Unity for Autism · Goodlife Kids Foundation · Els For Autism Canada · Co-operators Community Fund (Charity) · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Tenaquip Foundation / la Fondation Tenaquip · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Toronto 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 79 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 charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 869420208:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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