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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Canadian Alternative Investment Foundation

Provide low interest loss to registered charities and grants to registered charities.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2020
21
Grants FY2020
6
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$202k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$647k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.4M
C$40,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PILLAR NONPROFIT NETWORKC$1,400,000
SAINT JOHN COMMUNITY LOAN FUNDC$569,482
K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYEDC$416,911
FONDS D'EMPRUNT ECOMIQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE (QUEBEC)C$150,000
LOW-INCOME FAMILY EMPOWERMENT SOLE-SUPPORT PARENTS INFORMATIC$147,230
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HALIFAXC$75,276
ACCESS-MICRO-CREDIT GASPESIEC$75,000
FONDS COMMUNAUTAIRE D'ACCESS AU MICRO-CREDITC$70,000
THE PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEARTC$70,000
CEASE - CENTRE TO END ALL SEXUAL EXPLOITATIONC$59,184
FONDS MAURICEC$40,000
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAC$34,000
THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATIONC$34,000
URSULINE RELIGIOUS OF THE DIOCESE OF LONDON IN ONTARIOC$31,000
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH FOR THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO IN UPPER CAC$26,000
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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MicroEntreprendre Coeur et Hautes-Laurentides

Promouvoir et développer l'entreprenariats féminin en offrant un support technique adéquat. consentir des prêts aux femmes appauvries dans le but que ces femmes acquièrent leur autonomie financière.

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MicrocrÉDit MontrÉAl / Microcredit MontrÉAl

Soutenir techniquement et financièrement la mise sur pied de projets à caractère social et économique venant de population marginalisée et exlcus du réseau de financement traditionnel.

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3
Les Soeurs de Sainte-Marcelline

La corporation supporte le collège ste marcelline la résidence l'amitié saraguay (1974) inc. et d'autres organismes. de plus elle aide les personnes démunies en donation et autres supports financiers.

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4
The Ursulines of Jesus

Spiritual and financial accompaniment for victims especially women and children caught up in natural disasters or civil unrest the street people those in situations where there has been violence and/or human traffiicking; support towards…

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5
Les Missions Des Soeurs Antoniennes De Marie

Nous donnons des fonds à l'administration centrale d'une confession religieuse pour des activités missionnaires à l'étranger et au bénéfice des œuvres des Sœurs Antoniennes de Marie.

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6
Petites Soeurs des Pauvres

La corporation des petites soeurs des pauvres fait partie d'une institution internationale vouée dans l'église à l'accueil et à l'apostolat des personnes âgées souffrant de pauvreté de solitude et d'autres problèmes sans distinction de…

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7
L'oeuvre Des Saints-ApÔTres

Utiliser les biens immobiliers et employer les ressources en capital et en revenus aux fins que poursuit la société des missionnaires des saints-apôtres qui sont d'éveiller et accompagner des jeunes et des adultes dans la vocation au…

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8
Microbank of Jamaica/Microbanque Du Jamaique

The microbank is globally situated to eradicate poverty enrich lives and build communities mandated to impact humanity through creative ideas technology exclusive finance for development and innovation among others. as such granting loans…

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9
La Congrégation des Soeurs de Sainte-Anne

La congrégation des soeurs de sainte-anne oeuvre au canada aux états-unis et en haïti. les fins de la corporation sont la charité la religion l'enseignement l 'éducation et le bien-être.

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10
Microbank of Canada/Microbanque Du Canada

The microbank is globally situated to eradicate poverty enrich lives and build communities mandated to impact humanity through creative ideas technology exclusive finance for development and innovation among others. as such granting loans…

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11
Soeurs de la Providence/Sisters of Providence/Hermanas de laProvidencia

La corporation regroupe les services administratifs des oeuvres de bienfaisance et certains services de soutien de la congrégation religieuse des soeurs de la providence dont les fins sont la religion et la charité. elle regroupe des…

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12
Microentreprendre Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

L'organisme vise à soulager la pauvreté par la création et le développement d'un outil d'investissement accessible et de permettre un accompagnement et un support technique adéquat quant au montage ou à la gestion de projets.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of the Sacred Heart (Canada) /Societe Du Sacre-Coeur(Canada) and the most unlike its peers is Pillar Nonprofit Network. 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

20 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. 20 of the 22 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPILLAR NONPROFIT NETWORK — C$1,400,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetSAINT JOHN COMMUNITY LOAN FUND — C$569,482 over 1y, 58% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$416,911 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFONDS D'EMPRUNT ECOMIQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE (QUEBEC) — C$150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLOW-INCOME FAMILY EMPOWERMENT SOLE-SUPPORT PARENTS INFORMATI — C$147,230 over 1y, 24% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HALIFAX — C$75,276 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACCESS-MICRO-CREDIT GASPESIE — C$75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFONDS COMMUNAUTAIRE D'ACCESS AU MICRO-CREDIT — C$70,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART — C$70,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCEASE - CENTRE TO END ALL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — C$59,184 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFONDS MAURICE — C$40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION — C$34,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURSULINE RELIGIOUS OF THE DIOCESE OF LONDON IN ONTARIO — C$31,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH FOR THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO IN UPPER CA — C$26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBANGLADESH CENTRE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAntigonish Affordable Housing Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetST JOHN NEUMANN FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREY SISTERS OF IMMUCULATE CONCEPTION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORETTO COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS — C$1,000 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.

Congregation of the S…Canadian Women's Foun…United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…Canadahelps CanadonPayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in CanadaON8.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 22 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 2020-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Source object 842868408:2020-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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