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Oakville, ON · Public foundation

Ctfs Employees' Charity Trust

The trust received funds through payroll deductions from employees of the canadian tire services group of companies.

C$59k
Granted FY2019
46
Grants FY2019
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN TIRE JUMPSTART CHARITIESC$4,992
GILLIAN'S PLACEC$3,500
NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$3,000
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCEC$2,502
COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NIAGARA REGIONC$2,400
THE HOPE CENTREC$2,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF NIAGARAC$2,000
COMMUNITY CARE OF ST. CATHARINES/THOROLDC$2,000
YMCA NIAGARA REGIONC$1,750
HALTON WOMEN'S PLACEC$1,750
NIAGARA RESOURCE SERVICE FOR YOUTHC$1,750
FOUNDATION FOR RESOURCES OF TEENS OF WEST NIAGARA (FORT)C$1,750
MEALS ON WHEELS - NIAGARA FALLSC$1,720
STRIVE NIAGARAC$1,500
BETHLEHEM HOUSINGC$1,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$281k · 33 repeat orgsC$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

C$281k
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
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

  • CT
    Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$154k · revenue +6%
  • HH
    Hamilton Health Science
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$13k · revenue +69%
  • GP
    Gillian's Place
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$11k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • WP
    Women's Place South Niagaragraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +26%
  • JB
    Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue -36%
  • FH
    Food4Kids Halton
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue -19%

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
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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2
West Niagara Second Stage Housing & Counselling Inc

Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.

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3
Reach Out Niagara Family Support Services

Mental Health Services Counseling and Support Programs

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4
Niagara Children's Centre

The centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges

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5
West Niagara Affordable Housing
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6
Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc.

Brain Injury Community Re-Entry (Niagara) Inc. provides community based rehabilitation services to persons living with the affects of an acquired brain injury. Services include supportive housing friendly visiting personal care life skills…

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7
Niagara Health System

Provision of health care for residents of niagara region; hospital services.

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch

Programs and services for the psychiatric community and their families. promotion of mental health public education on mental illness. client advocacy one-to-one support safe bed provision crisis intervention information and referral…

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9
Niagara Support Services

Provision of adult residential services day programs family support autism classroom preschool and intervenor services for persons with developmental disabilities.

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10
The Niagara District Homes Committee for the Physically Disabled

To provide housing and support services for the physically disabled individuals.

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11
Niagara Training and Employment Agency Inc.

Provision of employment oriented training programs for persons with developmental disabilities in the niagara region. also provide an out of home respite program with developmental disabilities.

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12
Down Syndrome Niagara
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Resource Service for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Knox Presbyterian Church. 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

62 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. 62 of the 65 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
53/62
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 budgetCanadian Tire Jumpstart Charities — C$154,007 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHamilton Health Science — C$12,502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGillian's Place — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOne Foundation for Niagara's Hospitals — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood for Life Canada — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHalton Food for Thought — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGBF Community Services — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProject S.H.A.R.E. of Niagara Falls — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHALTON WOMEN'S PLACE — C$4,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBethlehem Housing — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStrive Niagara — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Resources of Teens of West Niagara (FORT) — C$4,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPelham Cares Inc. — C$3,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAutism Society of Ontario — C$3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNiagara Foundation for Family and Children's Services (FACS) — C$3,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Halton — C$3,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInterval House of Hamilton-Wentworth — C$3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF NIAGARA — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Care of West Niagara — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPort CARES — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Canada — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Lincoln Memorial — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA NIAGARA REGION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Place South Niagara — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NIAGARA REGION — C$2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Niagara — C$2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association of Niagara — C$2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Foundation of Niagara — C$2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJoseph Brant Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE OF ST. CATHARINES/THOROLD — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood4Kids Halton — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Arms Mission — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood4Kids Niagara — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNIAGARA RESOURCE SERVICE FOR YOUTH — C$1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS - NIAGARA FALLS — C$1,720 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHome Suite Hope — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF SOUTH NIAGARA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Roof Retreat — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS - BURLINGTON (CANADIAN RED CROSS) — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHotel Dieu Shaver, Health and Rehabilitation Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE NIAGARA — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society - Niagara — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATON ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES-NIAGARA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC. — C$850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALCOHOL RECOVERY IN DIGNITY — C$750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — C$750 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.

United Way NiagaraNiagara Community Fou…Wise Guys Charity FundThe Ontario Paper Tho…The Branscombe Family…Niagara Region Police…United Way Golden Hor…Ontario Realtors Care…Niagara-On-The-Lake R…Ontario Power Generat…Barterpay It Forward …The Synod of the Dioc…
United Way NiagaraON37.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Niagara · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Wise Guys Charity Fund · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · The Branscombe Family Foundation · Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Barterpay It Forward Foundation · The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara

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 65 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 2019-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2019. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2020) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 870665361:2019-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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