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Whitby, ON · Public foundation

Durham Community Foundation

Dcf fosters philantropy by connecting donors volunteers and community leaders addressing durham’s challenges through research advocacy and collaboration.

C$198k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k41 grants · C$138k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$4,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEED THE NEED IN DURHAMC$60,000
PRECIOUS MINDS SUPPORT SERVICESC$6,500
WHITBY ARTS INCORPORATED (STATION GALLERY)C$6,000
THEIR OPPORTUNITY MINOR SPORTS CORPORATION LACROSSINGC$5,800
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH-WEST DURHAM ANDC$4,760
DURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION FOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN OBLIGATIONC$4,700
BETHESDA HOUSEC$4,500
JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITYC$4,000
COMMUNITY JUSTICE ALTERNATIVES OF DURHAM REGIONC$4,000
WINDREACH FARM FOUNDATIONC$4,000
WHITBY HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$4,000
UXBRIDGE YOUTH CENTREC$4,000
DURHAM YOUTH SERVICESC$4,000
THE DURHAM GIRLS CHOIRC$4,000
SUNRISE DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORT SERVICESC$4,000
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 74 repeat orgsC$954k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
91

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$946k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+33%

Still filing today

97%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24
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$169k · revenue +445%
  • WH
    WHITBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$131k · revenue +146% · 62% of their budget
  • CC
    CAREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$98k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • AC
    AIDS COMMITTEE (DURHAM)graduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$81k · revenue +46%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$45k · revenue +36%
  • HO
    HORIZONS OF FRIENDSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k · revenue -70%

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.

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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
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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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
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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5
Durham Art Gallery

Advancement of the public's appreciation of the arts by presenting a broad range of arts practices and by providing educational activities

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6
Frontenac Youth Services

1) frontenac youth services operates a licensed children's mental health centre that provides services to adolescents and their families in the durham region. 2) frontenac runs two residential programs in the oshawa area for adolescents…

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7
Ignite Durham Learning Foundation

The ignite durham learning foundation is a charitable community organization that serves to remove financial barriers to create equitable opportunities that empower durham district school board students to achieve academic and personal…

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8
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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9
John Howard Society of Durham Region

Counselling;employment program;youth services;literacy/upgrading;residence program access to affordable housing; d.a.d.a. of durham;anger management;addictions-project x; criminal record-pardon application;presentations;parenting;diversion…

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10
Durham Association for Family Resources and Support

To provide opportunities and supports for persons with disabilities and their families to plan and implement good lives in the community for their family members with disabilities to provide public educaiton and increase awareness of the…

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11
The Participation House Project (Durham Region)

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide and maintain residential facilities for physically disabled persons and to provide care and education to them. ph durham also creates community and activities for disabled people.

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12
Literacy Council of Durham Region

From our office we do literacy and numeracy tutoring math class student assessments volunteer orientation interviews. we also supply tutoring materials and support to tutors and education in the durham region.

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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 Lake Scugog Historical 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

162 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. 162 of the 168 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/162
Grantees still filing
130/162
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEED THE NEED IN DURHAM — C$168,800 over 6y, 17% of budgetWHITBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$131,300 over 6y, 62% of budgetCAREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$97,525 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAIDS COMMITTEE (DURHAM) — C$80,604 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetART WITH A HEART INC. — C$78,251 over 4y, 42% of budgetVICTORY NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES INC. — C$77,220 over 3y, 76% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH - WEST DURHAM AND NORTHUMB — C$75,578 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetTHEIR OPPORTUNITY MINOR SPORTS CORPORATION — C$59,756 over 5y, 11% of budgetDURHAM ALLIANCE OUTREACH — C$56,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DURHAM — C$53,200 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE OSHAWA YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$52,667 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE ALTERNATIVES OF DURHAM REGION — C$48,860 over 3y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$45,660 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENTISTS INS CHOOL — C$45,275 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$45,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF DURHAM — C$43,333 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES OF DURHAM REGION — C$42,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetDURHAM DEAF SERVICES INC. — C$39,339 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAUTISM HOME BASE DURHAM INC. — C$39,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHORIZONS OF FRIENDSHIP — C$35,230 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$31,750 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDURHAM YOUTH SERVICES — C$30,870 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSIMCOE HALL SETTLEMENT HOUSE — C$30,250 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBIBLE FAITH CHURCH OF DURHAM — C$30,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetDURHAM COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$28,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERT MCLAUGHLIN GALLERY — C$28,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOSHAWA-DURHAM RAPE CRISIS CENTRE — C$28,144 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUXBRIDGE YOUTH CENTRE INC. — C$27,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$26,900 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN'S MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE AND COUNSELLING CENTRE OF DUR — C$25,481 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetDURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$24,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUKE'S PLACE SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND CHILD — C$24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDREACH FARM FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING AJAX-PICKERING AND WHITBY — C$21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARKWOOD FOUNDATION — C$21,290 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRECIOUS MINDS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$20,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRESOUND CHAIR — C$20,350 over 4y, 53% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE COALITION OF NORTHUMBERLAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSUNRISE YOUTH GROUP FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY HANDICAPPED (OSHAWA) — C$20,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDOXA PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE MINISTRIES — C$19,838 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE CHARLES H. BEST DIABETES CENTRE — C$19,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetROSE OF DURHAM YOUNG PARENTS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$18,600 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSEDNA WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT SERVICES INC. — C$18,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetABILITIES CENTRE DURHAM — C$18,186 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOak Ridges Hospice — C$17,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLukes Place Support & Resource Centre for Women + Kids — C$17,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetThe Youth Education Arts and Health Foundation — C$17,000 over 2y, 22% 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 of Durham …Deer Creek Cares Char…Pickering Rotary Club…William F Hayball Cha…Herman Kassinger Foun…Ontario Power Generat…St. Joseph's Council …Oshawa Parkwood Rotar…Faith United ChurchRotary Club of Bowman…Ajax Pickering Hospit…Arbor Memorial Founda…
United Way of Durham RegionON49.2× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Durham Region · Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation · Pickering Rotary Club Charitable Trust · William F Hayball Charitable Foundation · Herman Kassinger Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · St. Joseph's Council No. 6361 Charitable Welfare Trust · Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation · Faith United Church · Rotary Club of Bowmanville Charitable Trust · Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation · Arbor Memorial 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 168 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 898797931:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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