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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Brands for Canada

The organization receives donations of new clothing from manufacturers and retailers and distributes them to over 80 social agencies working with clients living in poverty and crisis.

C$681k
Granted FY2022
43
Grants FY2022
5
Regions reached
C$107k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$95k
  • C$10k–50k23 grants · C$479k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$107k
C$12,572
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LIVING TORONTOC$106,570
HOMELESS CONNECT TORONTOC$38,241
FAMILY RESCUE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIESC$36,559
LINKS FOR GREENER LEARNING INC.C$30,283
GRACE LIFE CENTRE INC.C$30,240
NELSON CARES SOCIETYC$30,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCHC$25,000
ELMWOOD COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE AND AREA ASSOCIATION INC.C$25,000
ABBOTSFORD CULTURAL CENTREC$24,000
FAITH SANCTUARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCHC$23,459
BRAEBURN NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE INCORPORATEDC$22,854
KIDS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS (KIP) CANADAC$21,469
HARBOURFRONT FOUNDATIONC$20,572
ELSPETH HEYWORTH CENTRE FOR WOMEN (NORTH YORK)C$18,666
JANE-ALLIANCE NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICESC$17,183
02Your 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.

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Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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2
East York and East Toronto Family Resources Organization

(1) Community capacity-building activities; (2) family support including outreach referrals parenting education; (3) early child development pre/peri/post natal supports; (4) peer-to-peer social supports harm reduction education; (5)…

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3
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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4
Woodgreen Community Services

Services for children: licensed child care summer day camp for children services for immigration: settlement services and adult esl classes employment services : counseling job placement employment resource centers summer job placement job…

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5
Family Service Toronto

1. Mental Health Counselling- Provide counseling education seminars and support for individuals and families coping with issues including separation/divorce depression sexual orientation and senior care. 2. Gender-Based Violence…

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6
Community Counselling and Resource Centre

1. community counselling - individual family and couple counselling; therapy support and groups 2. housing resource centre - housing help; provide clients with up to date vacancy lists for affordable housing

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7
Women's Habitat of Etobicoke

The shelter offers a safe refuge and supports to assess risk and plan for safety. additionally the shelter offers trauma-informed counselling supports with assessing the residents needs and setting goal including advocacy and referrals to…

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8
Acorn Family Place Inc.

Acorn family place is a family rescource centre which offers a variety of programs and services including: -connecting families @home -drop in services for community support and counselling clothing depot art in the city -food connections…

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9
Durham Youth Services

Durham youth services offers a variety of homelessness prevention rapid rehousing and housing stabilization supports youth aged 16-24 who are at risk of or experencing homelessness. dys prevention programs include family reconnect focussed…

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10
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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11
Home Suite Hope Shared Living Corp.

Stabilizing First is a 1 year program aimed at moving homeless single parent-led families from homelessness to housed. This program works to stabilize the families by connecting them to all the resources they may need to be successful.…

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12
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elmwood Community Resource Centre and Area Association Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Humber College Educational Foundation. 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

42 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. 42 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
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 budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING TORONTO — C$106,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CONNECT TORONTO — C$38,241 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetLINKS FOR GREENER LEARNING INC. — C$30,283 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGRACE LIFE CENTRE INC. — C$30,240 over 1y, 74% of budgetNELSON CARES SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetELMWOOD COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE AND AREA ASSOCIATION INC. — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetABBOTSFORD CULTURAL CENTRE — C$24,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFAITH SANCTUARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — C$23,459 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBRAEBURN NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE INCORPORATED — C$22,854 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS (KIP) CANADA — C$21,469 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHARBOURFRONT FOUNDATION — C$20,572 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetELSPETH HEYWORTH CENTRE FOR WOMEN (NORTH YORK) — C$18,666 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJANE-ALLIANCE NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES — C$17,183 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMA MAWI-WI-CHI-ITATA CENTRE INC. — C$14,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER-OAK PARENT CHILD CENTRE INC. — C$13,778 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION TORONTO BRANCH — C$13,456 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS DELIVERANCE TEMPLE INC. — C$12,960 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$12,960 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJESSIE'S THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$12,572 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOMES FIRST SOCIETY — C$12,246 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOSTI IMMIGRANT SERVICES — C$11,156 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$8,848 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKESIDE HOPE HOUSE — C$8,525 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARGARET'S HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC. — C$7,968 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST SCARBOROUGH BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB — C$6,762 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIDEAU-ROCKCLIFFE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OTTAWA FOOD BANK/LA BANQUE D'ALIMENTATION D'OTTAWA — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF DURHAM REGION — C$5,994 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF TORONTO — C$4,283 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARDEN WOODS CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$4,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJASPER PLACE WELLNESS CENTRE — C$3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBSON VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRHEMA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES CANADA INC. — C$2,838 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN HORNER COMMUNITY CENTRE OF ETOBICOKE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES — C$2,353 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLYTHWOOD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH — C$2,327 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKAWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,016 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Chum Charitable Found…Daily Bread Food BankYouth and Philanthrop…Right To FoodSecond Harvest Canada…Kids Up Front Foundat…Ontario Realtors Care…Toronto FoundationOntario Power Generat…Socks 4 Souls Canada …Canadian Women's Foun…Mazon Canada
Chum Charitable FoundationON14.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chum Charitable Foundation · Daily Bread Food Bank · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Right To Food · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Socks 4 Souls Canada Inc. · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Mazon 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 43 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 2022-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 135401180:2022-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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