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Kitchener, ON · Public foundation

Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.

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C$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
255
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$344k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 255 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k35 grants · C$205k
  • C$10k–50k130 grants · C$3.2M
  • C$50k–250k89 grants · C$8.5M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$344k
C$29,323
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURONC$343,846
SOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYC$235,591
RAY OF HOPE INCC$203,491
PACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCHC$203,275
ISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETYC$196,783
FORT YORK FOOD BANK A NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONC$181,996
HOME HORIZAON GEORGIAN TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL SERVICEC$178,884
REGENERATION OUTREACH COMMUNITYC$176,069
LAKESIDE HOPE HOUSEC$174,229
ORILLIA CHRISTIAN CENTREC$171,506
BISSELL CENTREC$150,797
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRISTC$147,015
GRAVENHURST AGAINST POVERTYC$142,826
INN FROM THE COLD INCC$140,889
SOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSIONC$140,678
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$38M
British Columbia
C$14M
Alberta
C$5.3M
Nova Scotia
C$2.4M
New Brunswick
C$1.7M
Manitoba
C$1.5M
Saskatchewan
C$1.3M
Quebec
C$647k
Prince Edward Island
C$614k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$342k
Northwest Territories
C$31k
Nunavut
C$2k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$63M · 412 repeat orgsC$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

412 repeat relationships — 212 still active in FY2024, 200 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

412
191

Total granted

C$63M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$886k 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURON
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +79%
  • PC
    PACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +48%
  • SC
    SOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CS
    CENTRAL STATION COMMUNITY CENTRE INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$79k
  • HM
    Hope Missiongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$63k · revenue +185%
  • SO
    SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · C$54k

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
Soar Community Services

Services were provides in four broad sectors: housing justice employment and addictions and mental health. housing programs consist of a homeless shelter and two transitional houses for youth. justice programs consist of community based…

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2
Yukon Womens Transition Home Society

24 hour 15 bed shelter for women and children fleeing violence 10 unit affordable second stage housing for up to 18 months with possibility of extension. Support to women through referrals advocacy and peer counselling Assist and advocate…

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3
London Cares Homeless Response Services

London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…

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4
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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5
North Shore Crisis Services Society

Sage House is an 18-bed transition house for women and children fleeing abuse. It provides food clothing referrals and advocacy. Sage Second Stage provides longer term housing for women and children with complex housing needs. The Women's…

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6
Nipissing Transition House

Residential distress centre for abused women & their children. serv. provided inc. secure shelter food counselling referral advocacy & follow-up. operates 24/7. non-res crisis support prog. that provides support counselling referrals…

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7
The Hope Centre: Community Resources in Advocacy

Soup kitchen adult drop-in support short-term food assistance medical assistance housing help centre christmas baskets rental assistance and emergency beds transitional housing

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8
Cara Transition House Inc

Provide shelter and safety to women and their dependent children who are escaping family violence. Provide food housing clothing personal care items medical supplies prescriptions and household items to residents of our emergency shelter…

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9
Yorktown Shelter for Women

Yorktown Shelter for Women (YSW) provides a safe and secure haven for women and their children fleeing an abusive relationship. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day by a multilingual and multicultural team, who are committed to the…

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10
Ywca Hamilton

Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…

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11
Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency

Youth without shelter is a 53 bed residence for homeless youth aged 16-24. in addition to shelter and food the following services are provided: mental health counselling life skills training employment services personal clothing and…

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12
Indwell Community Homes

Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Society of Southeast Bc and the most unlike its peers is Ambrose University. 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

624 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. 624 of the 644 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.

31
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
225
Early backer (in before they grew)
604/624
Grantees still filing
453/624
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURON — C$1,294,775 over 5y, 12% of budgetRay of Hope Inc. — C$1,274,400 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$1,159,861 over 8y, 14% of budgetSOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$1,133,345 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetORILLIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE — C$1,060,844 over 8y, 21% of budgetJOURNEY HOME COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$986,576 over 8y, 22% of budgetREGENERATION OUTREACH COMMUNITY — C$948,301 over 8y, 11% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$941,582 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$869,272 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHome Horizon Georgian Triangle Residential Service — C$838,726 over 8y, 30% of budgetYouth Impact Jeunesse — C$822,602 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$801,007 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE REFUGE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTER — C$795,684 over 8y, 13% of budgetBISSELL CENTRE — C$784,545 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLAKESIDE HOPE HOUSE — C$783,511 over 7y, 10% of budgetCITYREACH CARE SOCIETY — C$761,964 over 8y, 21% of budgetCHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE INC. — C$735,186 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY — C$733,194 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HALIFAX ARK OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — C$716,341 over 7y, 53% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD INC — C$673,607 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$627,865 over 8y, 15% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE (HAMILTON) — C$618,079 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetVINCENT PLACE MEN'S SHELTER INC — C$617,258 over 8y, 15% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$599,148 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOpen Arms Resource Centre Society — C$591,391 over 8y, 25% of budgetGREEN WOOD COALITION — C$530,308 over 8y, 77% of budgetHAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY — C$526,104 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetOperation Sharing of Woodstock — C$521,118 over 4y, 15% of budgetORANGEVILLE FOOD BANK — C$516,156 over 7y, 15% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF LONDON — C$501,834 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE DOOR SUPPORT SERVICES — C$495,631 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNEW HOPE OUTREACH SERVICES — C$493,810 over 6y, 30% of budgetS.H.I.F.T — C$489,694 over 4y, 41% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$465,197 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY GATEWAY OF HOPE — C$457,571 over 8y, 51% of budgetNELSON CARES SOCIETY — C$451,357 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetRatanak International — C$444,266 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$434,699 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE DAM - DEVELOP ASSIST MENTOR — C$430,357 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetMilton Transitional Housing Corp — C$429,863 over 8y, 23% of budgetUNITED CHURCH DOWNTOWN MISSION OF WINDSOR INC — C$415,899 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWOODGREEN RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$412,423 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDAWN TO DAWN ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS SOCIETY — C$410,352 over 7y, 11% of budgetFIRST UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$408,740 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY — C$408,121 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetGrace Ministries of Thunder Bay — C$406,866 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE GRIND PEMBROKE — C$398,868 over 7y, 14% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN (BARRIE) — C$396,411 over 8y, 4.7% 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 UNITED WAY OF PERTH-HURON ↗
  • Who funds Ray of Hope Inc. ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds SOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ORILLIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY HOME COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds REGENERATION OUTREACH COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds START ME UP NIAGARA ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Home Horizon Georgian Triangle Residential Service ↗
  • Who funds Youth Impact Jeunesse ↗
  • Who funds YONGE STREET MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE REFUGE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BISSELL CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds LAKESIDE HOPE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CITYREACH CARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE INC. ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE HALIFAX ARK OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD INC ↗
  • Who funds KINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE (HAMILTON) ↗
  • Who funds VINCENT PLACE MEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Open Arms Resource Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds GREEN WOOD COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY ↗
  • Who funds Operation Sharing of Woodstock ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEVILLE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MISSION SERVICES OF LONDON ↗
  • Who funds BLUE DOOR SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds S.H.I.F.T ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY GATEWAY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NELSON CARES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Ratanak International ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE DAM - DEVELOP ASSIST MENTOR ↗
  • Who funds Milton Transitional Housing Corp ↗

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.

The Meeting House Chu…Ontario Realtors Care…The Home Depot Canada…The Food Bank of Wate…The Charis FoundationHockey Helps the Home…Creekside ChurchH W Siebens Charitabl…Royal Lepage Shelter …Youth and Philanthrop…Mazon CanadaTrinity United Church
The Meeting House Church FamilyON23.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Meeting House Church Family · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · The Charis Foundation · Hockey Helps the Homeless/Hockey Aide Les Sans-Abri · Creekside Church · H W Siebens Charitable Foundation · Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Mazon Canada · Trinity United Church

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 644 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 819882655:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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