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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Black Opportunity Fund

Held Consultations and Townhalls to educate the public on issues affecting Black Canadians Black Entrepreneur Program to provide wrap around supports: business education financial literacy skill straining and other supports to help build their capacity and knowledge to operate successful and sustainable businesses.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$157k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k22 grants · C$166k
  • C$10k–50k40 grants · C$720k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$257k
C$10,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Black Life Impact FoundationC$156,971
Acorn to Oak Youth ServicesC$50,000
Durham Family & Cultural CentreC$50,000
Afrique au FémiC$30,000
Kidnetix Kidz AssociationC$25,000
ResQ Youth InternationalC$25,000
Individual grant recipientC$25,000
Midaynta Community ServicesC$25,000
McBride Youth United AssociationC$20,000
Oasis Youth Care ProgramsC$20,000
Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition CentreC$20,000
Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures IncC$20,000
Business is jammin societyC$20,000
Côte Des Neiges Black Community Association IncC$20,000
Atlantic Equity and ResearchC$20,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 48% of grant dollars (C$1.1M). The 52% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 52% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$275k · 6 repeat orgsC$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
31

Total granted

C$275k
C$907k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • RA
    Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition Centre
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$45k · revenue +56%
  • BA
    Black Artists' Networks in Dialogue
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$35k · revenue +15%
  • OY
    Oasis Youth Care Programs
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$30k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SF
    SickKids Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$212k · revenue +6%
  • CC
    Centre Communautaire Bon Courage de Place Benoîtgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$120k · revenue +66%
  • BH
    Black Health Education Collaborative
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Black Mentorship Inc.

Mentorship youth empowerment cross-cultural training (dei)

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2
Cee Centre for Young Black Professionals

Career training and development programs or youth at risk between ages 18-29 in the following industries: Digital technology culinary arts social services and trades

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3
Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development

Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development (CACD) is a Black-led youth-focused Registered Charitable Organization dedicated to transforming the lives of BIPOC (Black Indigenous and People of Color) youth between the ages of…

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4
Afro Women and Youth Foundation

The afro women and youth foundation (awtf) is a charitable organization providing leadership empowrrment and mentorship programs to black women and youth. we offer public education training and consulting on anti-black racism gender-based…

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5
The Power to Be International

Leadership program for racialized girls - Girls Empowerment - Akeelah's Room - Changemakers Program (Service Learning) - This program allows post-secondary students and professional volunteers to obtain valuable work experience while…

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6
Youth Film and Media Training Network

Programs are designed to prepare at risk young adults for the transformational era and environment we live in to help address growing income disparities. programs include job placement and internships: successful graduates of the training…

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7
Urban Alliance On Race Relations

Urban alliance on race relations (uarr) is dedicated to fostering diversity inclusion and equity through running workshops community events and impactful initiatives. our projects aim to bring community members together to combat hate and…

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8
The Black Women's Institute for Health

Healing pathways - a free therapy program for black women girls and gender-diverse people offering up to nine free therapy sessions with culturally safe mental health supports. mothering minds - a maternal mental health support programs…

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9
Atikokan Youth Initiatives Incorporated

Youth oriented programs to promote skill development and empower youth to make healthy lifestyle choices.

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10
Healthy Youth Network

What's your path - helping young people refine their skills passions & interests in order to develop a path for the future based on their priorities and goals. ally program - this youth-led ally program that creates systemic change is…

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11
Black Youth Helpline

National helpline & services for youth and families canada-wide: helps address issues and challenges of the most vulnerable youth through a focus on support for youth families and schools with the goal of premature school leaving…

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12
100 Strong Foundation

'strong academy - a summer program designed to mobilize and equip young black boys with the tools necessary to achieve their maximum potential in education and build on life skills. built on empowering valuing and appreciating the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association de la communauté noire de Cote-des-Neiges/Cote-des-Neiges black community association Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Afrique au féminin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 96 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
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 budgetSickKids Foundation — C$212,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentre Communautaire Bon Courage de Place Benoît — C$120,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc — C$120,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetDurham Family & Cultural Centre — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAcorn to Oak Youth Services — C$50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRestoration and Empowerment for Social Transition Centre — C$45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBlack Artists' Networks in Dialogue — C$35,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOasis Youth Care Programs — C$30,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetAfrique au Fémi — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRahma Community and Youth Centre Inc. — C$25,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMidaynta Community Services — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetParents of Black Children — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmadeusz — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCôte Des Neiges Black Community Association Inc — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Reading Partnership — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Holistic Ongoing Opportunities Development Facilitation — C$20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBGC East Scarborough — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBusiness is jammin society — C$20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMoyo Health and Community Services — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSuccess Beyond Limits — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBLACK AVIATION PROFESSIONALS NETWORK — C$15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSingle Mothers Inspiring Leadership in Education — C$10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDelmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBlack Canadian Women in Action Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNia Centre for the Arts — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWomen s Health In Women s Hands — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican Caribbean Cultural Potpourri (ACCPI) — C$10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAfrican Communities of Manitoba Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetA-Supreme Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetThe Olive Branch of Hope — C$10,000 over 1y, 50% 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.

  • Who funds SickKids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Centre Communautaire Bon Courage de Place Benoît ↗
  • Who funds Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc ↗
  • Who funds Durham Family & Cultural Centre ↗
  • Who funds Acorn to Oak Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition Centre ↗
  • Who funds Black Artists' Networks in Dialogue ↗
  • Who funds Oasis Youth Care Programs ↗
  • Who funds Afrique au Fémi ↗
  • Who funds Sickle Cell Foundation of Alberta ↗
  • Who funds Rahma Community and Youth Centre Inc. ↗
  • Who funds Midaynta Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Parents of Black Children ↗
  • Who funds Amadeusz ↗
  • Who funds Côte Des Neiges Black Community Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Reading Partnership ↗
  • Who funds The Holistic Ongoing Opportunities Development Facilitation ↗

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.

Toronto FoundationLaidlaw FoundationThe Catherine and Max…TELUS Friendly Future…The Catherine Donnell…Second Harvest Canada…The J W McConnell Fam…United Way Maritimes/…Right To FoodFood Banks Canada/Ban…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…
Toronto FoundationON8.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Laidlaw Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Right To Food · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 96 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under upholding human rights.

Source object 727678070:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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