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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes

1.

C$6.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
230
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 230 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k32 grants · C$56k
  • C$10k–50k159 grants · C$3.5M
  • C$50k–250k39 grants · C$2.8M
C$20,000
Median grant
13
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Circle on PhilanthropyC$100,000
The Arctic Rose FoundationC$100,000
Hamlet of Chesterfield InletC$100,000
IlitaqsiniqC$100,000
Yellowknife Women's SocietyC$100,000
MakeWay FoundationC$100,000
MakeWay Charitable SocietyC$100,000
Action Canada for Sexual Health and RightsC$100,000
Arctic Indigenous Wellness FoundationC$100,000
Hamlet of Chesterfield InletC$75,000
Lifetimes CirclesC$75,000
YWCA NWTC$75,000
Qajuqturvik Community Food CentreC$75,000
Salaheddin Islamic Centre IncC$75,000
The New Mom ProjectC$75,000
02The need
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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$52M
British Columbia
C$29M
Alberta
C$17M
Manitoba
C$6.6M
Saskatchewan
C$6.2M
Nova Scotia
C$5.1M
New Brunswick
C$4.4M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$3.9M
Quebec
C$3.0M
Prince Edward Island
C$1.6M
Northwest Territories
C$1.5M
Yukon
C$1.0M
Nunavut
C$900k

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$112M · 653 repeat orgsC$26M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

653 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2024, 548 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

653
673

Total granted

C$112M
C$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+39%

Still filing today

96%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.6M 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

  • MC
    MakeWay Charitable Society
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$871k · revenue +841%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$804k · revenue +231%
  • MF
    MakeWay Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$676k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • ÉS
    Église Souffle de Vie
    one grant, 2023 · C$253k · revenue +15%
  • DF
    Delta Family Resource Centre
    one grant, 2023 · C$253k · revenue -9%
  • GA
    Global Access and Inclusion Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$252k

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.

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Violence Against Women Services Elgin County

Violence against women services elgin county provides: - 24 hour emergency shelter for women who have been abused and their children - 24 hour help line - community counselling and support services - sexual assault program - prevention…

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2
Yorktown Family Services

Violence against women services (vaws) provide a safe haven for women and their children fleeing abusive relationships. the shelter staffed 24/7 is supported by a multilingual and multicultural team committed to the well-being and…

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3
Niijkiwendidaa Anishnaabekwewag Services Circle

Violence Against Women Counselling Support Program; Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence Support Program; Transitional Housing Support program Nihdawin Housing Support Program; and Healthy Babies healthy Children support Program

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4
East Indian Women's Cultural Connection Society

Provided crises counselling and short-term counselling/support for abused east indian women and their children and youth. provided long-term family support/counselling and interpreter services for east indian women and their children and…

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5
Women's Place Kenora

The centre offers support/counselling/workshops for women in area of: - abuse issues emotional economic spiritual sexual - threats/intimidations/stalking - legal rights/responsibilities - safety planning - prevention of violence - anger…

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6
Chestermere Women's Crisis Society

Basic Needs Support Court Support Advocacy Housing Support Emergency Accommodation

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7
The Centre for Social Justice Initiatives

Peer Support Groups- Counselling Sharing resources educational workshops about Gbv

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Abused Women's Resilience Centre

Ongoing

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9
Sos Violence Conjugale

Services téléphoniques d'accueil d'évaluation et de référence au femmes victimes de violence conjugale

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10
Vancouver Island Men's Therapy Centre Society

Victim services - deliver support information advocacy and crisis intervention to male survivors (16+) of sexual assault and childhood trauma. trauma counselling - we offer individual counselling to male (16+) who are victims of physical…

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11
Victim Services of Peel

Victim services of pee (vsop) offers a wide variety of programs and services to help those affected by crime and tragic circumstance in brampton and mississauga. highly trained staff and volunteers provide immediate crisis intervention…

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12
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Society for Women

To provide counselling and outreach programs as well as to educate women who have been affected by domestic violence

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Safe Haven/Resource Service Inc. and the most unlike its peers is La Sejournelle. 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

1161 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. 1161 of the 1,358 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.

97
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
486
Early backer (in before they grew)
1132/1161
Grantees still filing
962/1161
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 budgetMakeWay Charitable Society — C$871,073 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$804,340 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMakeWay Foundation — C$676,475 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association Of Halifax — C$655,842 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetRENFREW COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE CRISIS SUPPORT CENTRE — C$646,927 over 4y, 32% of budgetThe Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre — C$639,542 over 5y, 33% of budgetThe Young Women's Christian Association Of Moncton — C$623,011 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetThe Prince George Sexual Assault Centre Society — C$603,053 over 7y, 15% of budgetB.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association — C$580,611 over 3y, 11% of budgetDIVERSEcity Community Resources Society — C$565,714 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSalvation Army Honeychurch Family Life Resource Centre — C$565,110 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetBarbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic — C$554,789 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetHeritage Skills Development Centre — C$548,824 over 5y, 33% of budgetThe Elizabeth Fry Society of Northern Alberta — C$540,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetSECOND STORY WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$537,712 over 7y, 84% of budgetElizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia — C$517,400 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetSagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society — C$512,962 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetThe Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia — C$495,582 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSurvivor s Hope Crisis Centre — C$495,398 over 8y, 53% of budgetWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE SKILLS TRAINING OF WINDSOR — C$486,567 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetST. JOHN'S WOMEN'S CENTRE INC. — C$485,886 over 5y, 33% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$481,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCalgary Immigrant Women's Association — C$463,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Resource Centre (Killaoe) Inc — C$449,480 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetAfricans in Partnership Against Aids — C$418,832 over 3y, 32% of budgetLA MAISON PARENT-ROBACK — C$405,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetScarborough Women's Centre — C$403,460 over 5y, 28% of budgetYWCA NWT — C$403,133 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSEED Winnipeg Inc. — C$399,625 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSkills for Change — C$392,247 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAWHL-Assaulted Women's Helpline — C$390,896 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetNorth York Community House — C$390,522 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSouth Asian Women's Centre — C$390,283 over 5y, 20% of budgetLondon Abused Women's Centre — C$389,336 over 4y, 17% of budgetService a la Famille Restigouche — C$380,850 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetIslamic Family And Social Services Association (IFSSA) — C$375,400 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetTerrace Women's Resource Centre Society — C$375,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetBlackfoot Family Lodge Society — C$369,176 over 5y, 85% of budgetProvincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of — C$368,800 over 3y, 24% of budgetOUTSaskatoon Inc. — C$367,538 over 5y, 14% of budgetL'Escale Madavic Inc — C$362,865 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Elizabeth Fry Society of Saint John NB Inc — C$361,520 over 3y, 27% of budgetBattlefords' & Area Sexual Assault Centre Inc — C$357,898 over 5y, 35% of budgetSecond Stage Safe Haven Inc — C$355,025 over 6y, 40% of budgetLethbridge Family Services — C$353,280 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBC Women's Health Foundation — C$350,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetANDPVA - Association for Native Development — C$350,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSea to Sky Community Services Society — C$345,200 over 3y, 1.2% 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.

Women's Shelters Cana…Royal Lepage Shelter …Mary Kay Ash Charitab…Shoppers Foundation f…Regroupement des Mais…Jeremy's Memorial Fou…Carrefour Provincial …Fondation RONAUnifor Social Justice…The Federation of Com…Manitoba Association …H W Siebens Charitabl…
Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes CanadaON59.4× affinity276 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada · Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation · Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Regroupement des Maisons pour Femmes Victimes de Violence Conjugale · Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violence · Carrefour Provincial Famille Jeunesse Inc. · Fondation RONA · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbia · Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc. · H W Siebens Charitable 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 1358 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 129855607:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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