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Ajax, ON · Private foundation

Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation

The Foundation raised funds through various means including holding a golf tournament.

C$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$34k
C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feed the Need in DurhamC$18,510
Grandview Children's FoundationC$15,550
The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack FundC$1,200
Alzheimer Society of Durham RegionC$1,000
Dreams and Wishes Children's CharityC$500
Durham Outlook for the NeedyC$500
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES OF DURHAMC$500
SEDNA WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT SERVICES INC.C$500
Ajax Pickering Hospital FoundationC$500
Autism Home Base Durham IncC$500
Durham Children's Aid FoundationC$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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$241k · 20 repeat orgsC$104k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

C$241k
C$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+52%

Still filing today

95%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • FT
    Feed the Need in Durham
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +445%
  • AS
    Alzheimer Society of Durham Region
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$43k · revenue +22%
  • DC
    Durham Children's Aid Foundation
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$29k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • VD
    VON Durham Hospice Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +397%
  • OS
    Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of Durhamgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$14k · revenue +38%

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
Durham Mental Health Services

Durham mental health services provides a range of services to people with serious long standing mental health difficulties. programs include: four residential support houses a case management program community based crisis services court…

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2
Durham Mental Health Services Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and other property and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time for the benefit of durham mental health services. durham mental health services provides a range of…

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3
Durham Region Critical Incident Stress Support Team

Supply emotional support services to emergency responders in time of crisis teach pre-incident prevention to mitigate effects of trauma

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4
North House

North house provides a wide range of housing and support programs for those who are at risk or in crisis within the communitied or north durham. the programs are aimed at helping low income families and individuals in need of subsidized…

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5
Durham Alliance Outreach

Mental health care

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6
Durham and District Foodbank

Relief of poverty providing food security to low income individuals and families

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7
For the Love of a Child

Fundraising for the purpose of providing financial assistance to families living in the durham region and incurring extraordinary costs associated with raising a child with special needs

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8
Resources for Exceptional Children - Durham Region

Resources for exceptional children and youth – durham region will assist the family to enhance their child’s participation in their community and support the family to advocate for services that they require. resources for exceptional…

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9
Durham Down's Syndrome Association

Provided resources and held various events for those with and affected by down syndrome

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10
Simcoe Hall Women's League Foundation

Investment activities and gifts to qualified donees in durham region

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11
Pregnancy Help Centre of Durham

The pregnancy help centre of durham provides support and education to young families in distress dure to pregnancy. we provide prenatal information and provide ongoing support for those who find themselves pregnant and choose to carry to…

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12
Brain Injury Association of Durham Region

The following programs are offered to support individuals caregivers and family of those affected by brain injury: - Adult Day Program - Dementia Strategy - Supported Independent Living Program - Community Support Program - Information…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Children's Aid Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Animal Shelter for Uxbridge-Scugog. 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

46 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. 46 of the 49 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
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 budgetFeed the Need in Durham — C$47,653 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Durham Region — C$43,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGrandview Children's Foundation — C$32,750 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDurham Children's Aid Foundation — C$29,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Denise House (Sedna Women's Shelter & Support Services I — C$16,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVON Durham Hospice Services — C$15,250 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetEpilepsy Durham Region — C$14,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetROSE OF DURHAM — C$13,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Durham — C$13,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVictim Services of Durham Region — C$13,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOntario Shores Foundationfor Mental Health — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDurham College Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDurham Community Foundation — C$6,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAnimal Guardian Society — C$5,744 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetThe Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund — C$3,532 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeed the Need in Durham — C$3,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakeridge Health Foundation — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPflag Canada (Durham Region) — C$3,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHuman Society of Durham Region — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRO ACTION COPS & KIDS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetART WITH A HEART INC. — C$2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWINDREACH FARM FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation Durham Region — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Home Base Durham — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNOVA'S ARK — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Durham — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTheir Opportunity — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDurham Outlook for the Needy — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSimcoe Hall Settlement House — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Durham — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOshawa Aeronautical Military and Industrial Museum — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLuke's Place — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAction Volunteers For Animals — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoyal Canadian Legion — C$500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew Animal Shelter for Uxbridge- Scugog — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES OF DURHAM — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters South-West Durham — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Victory Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Royal Legion Branch 112 — C$500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAjax Pickering Hospital Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Refuge Youth Outreach Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Paul's on-the-Hill Community Food Bank — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart Place Cancer Support Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake a wish foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Durham Community Foun…United Way of Durham …Ontario Power Generat…William F Hayball Cha…Pickering Rotary Club…St. Joseph's Council …Arbor Memorial Founda…Youth and Philanthrop…Herman Kassinger Foun…Oshawa Parkwood Rotar…Kiwanis Club of Oshaw…Ajax Pickering Hospit…
Durham Community FoundationON31.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Durham Community Foundation · United Way of Durham Region · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · William F Hayball Charitable Foundation · Pickering Rotary Club Charitable Trust · St. Joseph's Council No. 6361 Charitable Welfare Trust · Arbor Memorial Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Herman Kassinger Foundation · Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Oshawa Education Foundation · Ajax Pickering Hospital 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 49 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 798564894:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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