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Cambridge, ON · Private foundation

Brenda & Dave Walden Family Foundation

The purpose of the corporation is to recieve and maintain a fund or funds and to donate part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$56k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCAC$30,500
CHILD WITNESS CENTREC$13,500
BEREAVED FAMILIES OF ONTARIO-MIDWESTERN REGIONC$12,000
CAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANKC$5,000
CRANE LAKE DISCOVERY CAMPC$4,000
LEARNING CENTER NIAGARAC$2,500
SCOTTISH RITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (LEARNING CENTRE FOR HAMC$2,500
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$201k · 7 repeat orgsC$63k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$201k
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • BF
    BEREAVED FAMILIES OF ONTARIO-MIDWESTERN REGION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$64k · revenue +48%
  • LC
    LEARNING CENTRE FOR HAMILTON
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$34k · revenue +213%
  • SM
    SHELTER MOVERS WATERLOO REGION
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$21k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SUPPORT CONNECTIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +8%
  • MP
    MARILLAC PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +49%
  • KA
    KW ACCESSIBLITIY
    one grant, 2021 · C$8k · revenue +11%

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
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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2
Halton Women's Place

We operate two emergency shelters in Halton Region for abused women and their dependent children. Staff are on duty 24/7 and meals clothing information transportation and other related services are available. We operate a 24 hour crisis…

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3
Helping Hands Orillia

Community support services and supportive housing for seniors or adults with disabilities. Programs include: Meals on Wheels transportation homemaking personal support respite transitional beds and daily at-home support for high-risk…

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4
Domestic Abuse Services Oxford

Womens programs - counselling support child care temporary housing.

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5
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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6
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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7
Guelph - Wellington Women in Crises

Providing emergency temporary shelter to abused women and children; sexual assault counselling; human trafficking relief program

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8
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey

Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with…

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9
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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10
Ronald Mcdonald House South Central Ontario

Provide short-term accommodation to families during treatment of their critically ill children being treated at nearby hospitals.

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11
Hospice Outreach Programs of Elgin

Hospice Outreach of Elgin is a community organization providing support to those living with a life limiting illness and their families and caregivers. The organization provides programs and services at no charge to people when and where…

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12
Women's Place (St Catharines & District) Inc

As one of the first shelters in Ontario Women's Place (operating as Gillian's Place) has over 40 years of experience and expertise in gender-based violence service in Niagara. Since 1977 we have grown from an 8-bed emergency shelter to a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBEREAVED FAMILIES OF ONTARIO-MIDWESTERN REGION — C$64,360 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetYWCA — C$50,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEARNING CENTRE FOR HAMILTON — C$33,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS WATERLOO REGION — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL ONTARIO DEVELOPMENT RIDING PROGRAM — C$15,400 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES — C$12,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT CONNECTIONS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARILLAC PLACE — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKW ACCESSIBLITIY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE LAKE DISCOVERY CAMP — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLissard House — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOG POUND RESCUE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST. MARY PARISH — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…The May Court Club of…Cambridge & North Dum…The Roman Catholic Ep…Abundance CanadaRotary Club of Kitche…Kitchener-Conestoga R…Unity Centre of Pract…Wallenstein Feed Char…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Ontario Realtors Care…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON14.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · Abundance Canada · Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · Unity Centre of Practical Christianity · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care 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 18 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 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 847487501:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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