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Guelph, ON · Private foundation

Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)

The charity was active in donations throughout the year to provide funding for canadian charitable organizations which create employment and promote local self-reliance through co-operative and community based initiatives.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$46k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$27k
  • C$10k–50k46 grants · C$1.2M
C$23,000
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELEPHANT THOUGHTS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHC$45,500
LAKECITY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$40,000
THE REACH FOUNDATION INCC$40,000
WATER FIRST EDUCATION & TRAINING INCC$40,000
AUTISM SOCIETY NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORC$40,000
AUTISM RESOURCE CENTRE INCC$40,000
PRODUCTIONS JEUN'ESTC$40,000
STELLA'S PLACEC$40,000
PRODUCTIONS SPECTRUMC$40,000
RISE ASSET DEVELOPMENTC$40,000
PROSPECT HUMAN SERVICES SOCIETYC$40,000
ARTBEAT STUDIO INCC$30,000
ZERO CEILING SOCIETY OF CANADAC$30,000
ON SITE PLACEMENT SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$30,000
PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETYC$30,000
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$1.5M
British Columbia
C$869k
Alberta
C$628k
Quebec
C$549k
Saskatchewan
C$405k
Nova Scotia
C$377k
Manitoba
C$275k
New Brunswick
C$259k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$191k
Prince Edward Island
C$80k

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.7M · 44 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
48

Total granted

C$3.7M
C$944k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+24%

Still filing today

98%
98%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$616k 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

  • LE
    LAKECITY EMPOWERMENT SERVICES ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$185k · revenue +38%
  • WF
    WATER FIRST EDUCATION & TRAINING INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$150k · revenue +426%
  • OS
    OPEN SKY CO- OPERATIVE LTD.
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$150k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • SN
    SPENCE NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +27%
  • LE
    L'EQUIPE ENTERPRISE
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +24%
  • BU
    BOIS URBAIN - MEUBLESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +56%

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
In the Works - a Social Enterprise Network

In the Works' experiential work program integrates a holistic trauma informed and effective pre-employment framework while participants complete hands-on work experience across a variety of sectors. Participants will complete 'In the…

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2
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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3
Youth Habilitation Quinte Inc.

Mental health counseling-provide information & consultation confidential assessment individual case planning individual & group counseling transitional aged youth-provide assistance in connecting to and receiving supports for mental health…

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4
Redefin'd Young Adult Empowerment Centre

Redefin’d provides community and meaningful work programs to young people who have experienced social and psychological barriers to employment. We promote health by empowering young people to learn effective communication and social…

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5
Causeway Work Centre

Employment Supports - provides support services and assistance to persons with mental illness and barriers to employment to find employment. Youth Program - provides youth with a structured program with assistance in seeking employment…

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6
The Canadian Council On Rehabilitation and Work

1. Employment Services (New Brunswick) maintains partnerships with the business community various levels of government agencies/organizations and partners in education and skills development in order to best support job seekers with…

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7
Intersections Media Opportunities for Youth Society

Our program offers an employability and life skills workshop experience opportunity to youth facing multiple barriers to employment. Through the unique and familiar medium of art and digital filmmaking as well as involvement in group-based…

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8
Community Youth Programs Inc

Community youth programs provides housing and support for adolescents aged 15 to 18 who are unable to live with a family and unprepared for independent living. there is an emphasis on school achievement and part-time paid or volunteer work…

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9
Youth Employment Centre-Bold Street

Through agreements with fedcap canada (ministry of labour immigration training & skills development) employment services are provided to the community's job seekers and business owners with a focus on those with barriers to employment.…

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10
Stepstones for Youth

Stepstones for youth helps unlock the potential of vulnerable children and youth who have experienced trauma and abuse and are living in poverty many of whom are from foster care and the child welfare system. the organization's prevention…

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11
New Beginnings (Essex County)

New beginnings delivers programs for high risk youth and families. we deliver employment programs for youth between the ages of 16 and 29 years of age. we deliver like skills training and supports to youth in targetted areas of our…

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12
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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

119 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. 119 of the 120 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/119
Grantees still filing
75/119
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 budgetPRODUCTIONS JEUN'EST — C$210,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetLAKECITY EMPOWERMENT SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$185,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWORKING FOR CHANGE — C$150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION & TRAINING INC — C$150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetOPEN SKY CO- OPERATIVE LTD. — C$150,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCHOICES FOR YOUTH INC — C$137,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetON SITE PLACEMENT SERVICES — C$125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHOLLYBURN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$119,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRISE ASSET DEVELOPMENT — C$115,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPATHWAY TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF OTTAWA — C$110,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPOTENETIAL PLACE SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSpectre de rue inc — C$110,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Kettle Friendship Society — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE ASSISTANCE FOR YOUTH INC. — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetEdmonton City Centre Church Corporation (e4c) — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetZERO CEILING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMUNCH CAFÉ & CATERING INC — C$90,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetARTBEAT STUDIO INC — C$90,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetROOTS TO HARVEST — C$90,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCORE NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH CO-OPERATIVE LTD. — C$90,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAUTISM RESOURCE CENTRE IN — C$80,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE REACH FOUNDATION INC — C$80,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTake a Hike Youth at Risk Foundation — C$80,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPROSPECT HUMAN SERVICES SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGUELPH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$64,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING NORTH HALTON — C$62,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM FOOD BANK AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPRODUCTIONS SPECTRUM — C$60,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetIgnite Adult Learning Corporation — C$60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY- NORTHERN YOUTH LEADERSHIP — C$46,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEPHANT THOUGHTS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH — C$45,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPIONEER COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCIATION — C$40,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING OAKVILLE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR — C$40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDAN'S LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCNIB — C$38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT EDUCATION SOCIETY (TIES) — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLUBHOUSE SOCIETY OF EDMONTON & AREA (PROSPER PLACE) — C$32,800 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH — C$32,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVIBE ARTS — C$31,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH IMPACT JEUNESSE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPENCE NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetL'EQUIPE ENTERPRISE — C$30,000 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

The Home Depot Canada…TELUS Friendly Future…Youth and Philanthrop…The McLean FoundationJohansen-Larsen Found…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Right To FoodRaising the Roof Chez…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Makeway FoundationFondation Ssq Inc.
The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot CanadaON20.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The McLean Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Right To Food · Raising the Roof Chez Toit · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Makeway Foundation · Fondation Ssq Inc.

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 120 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 872672134:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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