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Burlington, ON · Public foundation

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (Canada)

Expand public awareness of adoption and waiting children in foster care.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$340k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$38k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$340k
C$88,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF CANADAC$340,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - TORONTOC$178,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - DISTRICTS OF SUDBURY &C$170,000
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$170,000
DURHAM CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYC$104,019
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - WINDSOR-ESSEXC$88,000
THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF HAMILTONC$85,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - HALIFAXC$85,000
DEPARTMENT OF CHILD YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICESC$83,476
EDMONTON REGION CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESC$82,737
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - DISTRICTS OF NIPISSING & PARRYC$79,765
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND SENIORSC$37,767
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$13M · 23 repeat orgsC$338k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
4

Total granted

C$13M
C$338k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - TORONTO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +40%
  • AF
    ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$687k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF HAMILTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$680k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • EA
    Edmonton & Area Child and Family Services Authority
    one grant, 2017 · C$85k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$85k
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · C$85k

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
Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region

Family and children's services niagara provides mandated child welfare services to the niagara region include:the investigation of the possible abuse or neglect of children; children protection services; foster care; adoption services;…

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2
The Children's Aid Society of Oxford County

Child protection and family counselling services

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3
Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton

The Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton provides protection services under the Children Youth and Family Services Act (CYFSA). The organization works closely with families community partners and First Nations…

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4
Children and Family Services for York Region

Yrcas is an agency mandated by the province of ontario to ensure protection of children from abuse abandonment and neglect in the york region. it provides protection to children by assisting families in ensuring children's safety in their…

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5
The Children's Aid Society of the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington

Provision of child welfare services according to the child and family services act. delivery of prevention and early intervention programs to stengthen families and communities. provision of post secondary scholarships to former youth in…

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6
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region

The provision of child protection services to the children youth and families of the waterloo region

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7
Children's Aid Society of Toronto

Protect and prevent children and youth from neglect and abuse - provide safe and nurturing care for children and youth - improve. lives of abused and neglected children through education and other preventative measures.

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8
Child and Family Services of Grand Erie

Child and family services of grand erie ensures the well-being and safety of children and youth is our purpose passion and focus. together with our communities we support work and advocate for children youth and families to achieve their…

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9
The Children's Aid Foundation of York Region

Children's camps york region children's aid society special needs program

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10
Highland Shores Children's Aid Society

Investigate allegations or evidence of child abuse and neglect provide protective services to children provide guidance counselling and other services to families for the purposes of protecting children provide care to children by…

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11
The Children's Aid Society of the County of Dufferin

We are an integrated children's agency that advocates for and provides coordinated services for children families and individuals. our primary focus is on children most in need of counseling support and protection from abuse and neglect…

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12
Simcoe Muskoka Child Youth and Family Services

Provide child protection services as mandated under the Child and Family Services Act (2017) - Provide family support and counselling services - Provide adoption disclosure and adoption services - Provide youth counselling services -…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Aid Society of London and Middlesex and the most unlike its peers is Durham Children's Aid Society. 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

17 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. 17 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
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 budgetCatholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto — C$2,810,002 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - TORONTO — C$1,401,712 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - DISTRICTS OF SUDBURY & — C$1,147,881 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — C$695,281 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$686,864 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF HAMILTON — C$680,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$657,603 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetHALIFAX REGION CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$655,938 over 8y, 64% of budgetChildren's Aid Society of Stormnt,Dundas & Glengarry — C$590,659 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY-DISTRICTS OF NIPISSING & PARRY SND — C$589,402 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WINDSOR-ESSEX CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$546,070 over 7y, 16% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation of Ottawa — C$447,001 over 6y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF LONDON & MIDDLESEX — C$406,131 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily and Children's Services of Niagara — C$360,276 over 3y, 41% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE WATERLOO REGION — C$305,065 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetThe Windsor-Essex Choldren's Aid Society — C$105,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$63,750 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION - DISTRICTS OF SUDBURY & ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds HALIFAX REGION CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Aid Society of Stormnt,Dundas & Glengarry ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY-DISTRICTS OF NIPISSING & PARRY SND ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDSOR-ESSEX CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Aid Foundation of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF LONDON & MIDDLESEX ↗
  • Who funds Family and Children's Services of Niagara ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE WATERLOO REGION ↗
  • Who funds The Windsor-Essex Choldren's Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO ↗

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.

Children's Aid Founda…Hydro One Employees' …Charities Aid Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way of Greater…Vancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationMy Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Children's Aid Foundation of CanadaON18.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Children's Aid Foundation of Canada · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 27 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 876047804:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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