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Burlington, ON · Charitable organization

Food for Life Inc.

Food for Life is a regional leader in food rescuing and sharing good surplus food to charities and direct to neighbours ensuring everyone has access to good food.

C$325k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
8
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$270k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$15,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Unemployed Help CentreC$50,000
Moisson MontrealC$40,000
Second HarvestC$40,000
Greater Vancouver Food BankC$30,000
Loaves & Fishes Community Food BankC$25,000
Feed Nova ScotiaC$25,000
Breakfast Clubs of CanadaC$25,000
Whitehorse Food BankC$15,000
Project Share - NiagaraC$15,000
Airdrie Food bankC$15,000
Regional Food DistributionC$10,000
Regina Food bankC$10,000
Moose Jaw Food BankC$10,000
Moisson Rive SudC$10,000
Community Food Sharing AssociationC$5,000
02The need
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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$347k
Quebec
C$124k
British Columbia
C$87k
Nova Scotia
C$64k
Alberta
C$62k
Saskatchewan
C$47k
Yukon
C$33k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$5k

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$584k · 13 repeat orgsC$237k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

C$584k
C$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UH
    Unemployed Help Centre
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$103k · revenue +4%
  • LF
    Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$57k · revenue +76%
  • AF
    Airdrie Food Bank
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$42k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • HS
    Harvest Share-Parry Sound
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -19%
  • CJ
    Canavua - John Humphrey Centre for Peace
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k

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
Northumberland County Foodbanks

Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities

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2
Greater Hamilton Food Share

Emergency food procurement. solicitation and distribution of food obtained from the community and from the food industry. food is distributed to local food banks hot meal programs and child nutrition programs.

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3
Elgin Food Bank

Collecting and dispersing food for local residents

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4
Weymouth Area Food Bank

Provides food for people in need

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5
Durham and District Foodbank

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

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6
Markham Food Bank

Alleviate food insecurity for markham community members

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7
Hungry Bear Food Support Committee

To provide emergency food for families and individuals in need of support - food security

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8
Hinton Food Bank Association

Operation of Food Bank to provide staple food supplies on a short term basis to families / individuals

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9
Canning Area Food Bank

Provide food to families in need

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10
Shelburne Loyalist Food Bank

Local food bank

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11
Alliston Food Bank Inc.

Distributing food to supplement the food needs of local families experiencing difficult financial times

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12
Central Food Network

Our mission is to relieve poverty by providing food heating supplies & other basic necessities for people who are of low income & in need. We operate two food banks a food distribution hub a Community Cooks meal program & Heat Bank…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Moisson Rive-Sud. 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

22 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. 22 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnemployed Help Centre — C$103,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFeed Nova Scotia — C$64,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Community Food Bank — C$57,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAirdrie Food Bank — C$42,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBurlington Food Bank — C$41,069 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetProject Share - Niagara — C$38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Sharing Association — C$37,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRegina Food bank — C$37,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWhitehorse Food Bank — C$33,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMoisson Rive Sud — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMoose Jaw Food Bank — C$30,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakfast Clubs of Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeed the Need Durham — C$23,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHarvest Share-Parry Sound — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCanavua - John Humphrey Centre for Peace — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBarrie Food Bank — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOME SUITE HOPE SHARING LIVING — C$9,994 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHalton Food For Thought — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HALTON — C$5,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCompass Point Bible Church — C$3,596 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HALTON HAMILTON — C$500 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.

Food Banks Canada/Ban…Steelworkers Humanity…Unifor Social Justice…Vancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationFood Banks MississaugaOntario Association o…David McAntony Gibson…Charities Aid Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Ontario Realtors Care…United Way Golden Hor…
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires CanadaON14× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Food Banks Mississauga · Ontario Association of Food Banks · David McAntony Gibson Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe

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 29 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 890943772:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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