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Etobicoke, ON · Private foundation

Gay Lea Foundation

The Gay Lea Foundation continues to operate within its mandate and adhere to its stated purpose; disbursing grants to organizations that are benefiting communities.

C$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$136k
C$15,909
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$940k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEARFUND CANADAC$26,300
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION HAMILTONC$25,000
CUPS CALGARY SOCIETYC$25,000
GREEN IGLUC$21,296
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$15,909
SHEAF/ESPIGA FOUNDATIONC$12,425
H2O4ALLC$10,000
HOSPICE WELLINGTONC$8,400
SHINE THROUGH THE RAIN FOUNDATIONC$7,500
CHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE INC.C$3,000
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 29 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
76

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$96k 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

  • CP
    CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEF
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$120k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    TEARFUND CANADA
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$94k · revenue +5%
  • TH
    THE HEART OF HASTINGS HOSPICE
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$80k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · C$125k · revenue -14%
  • CD
    Co-operative Development Foundation of Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$115k · revenue ×34 · 54% of their budget
  • SS
    SALAMA SHIELD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$34k · revenue +98% · 28% of their budget

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
The Hunger Project

Ongoing programs: the hunger project canada and in partnership with the global hunger project will carry out programs of the following regions: ending hunger in rural communities in africa india bangladesh mexico and peru through the…

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2
Pih Partners in Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…

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3
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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4
Forafrika

Forafrika's work is carried out through our six core programming pillars: humanitarian emergency response; access to safe drinking water sanitation and hygiene (wash); supporting quality education; enhancing health and nutrition; boosting…

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5
Volunteers for Humanity

Promote health by providing affected populations with health care services or products that prevent and manage serious threats to health and survival. Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing basic necessities of life including…

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6
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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7
Action contre la faim Acf (Canada) / Action against hunger Acf (Canada)

Action against hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. we save the lives of malnourished children. we ensure everyone can access clean water food training and health…

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8
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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9
Life from water canada

Life from Water Canada is committed to the following range of humanitarian and developmental activities: - Clean Water Projects:We install solar-powered and hand-pumped shallow wells to provide communities with sustainable access to clean…

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10
Clean Water International Canada Society

We believe every child has the right to clean water clean water international canada is dedicated to advancing wtaer sanitaion and hygiene (wash) through sustainable community-led programs. our work directly contributes to several united…

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11
Human Concern International (Hci)

Health Programs: Deliver medical care and health education to underserved communities. Education Programs: Enhance literacy and education through school construction scholarships teachers training and educational materials. Emergency…

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12
Real Humanitarian

Real Humanitarian provides orphaned and vulnerable children and their families with access to health care education vocational training and the basic necessities of life. This is done by financially supporting the children's education…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canada-Africa Community Health Alliance/Alliance De Sante Communautaire Canada-Afrique and the most unlike its peers is Westview Christian Fellowship. 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

103 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. 103 of the 110 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/103
Grantees still filing
72/103
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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEF — C$120,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCo-operative Development Foundation of Canada — C$115,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetTEARFUND CANADA — C$94,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEART OF HASTINGS HOSPICE — C$80,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADA-AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$65,141 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE (ACTS) SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOC — C$60,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSHEAF/ESPIGA — C$55,189 over 4y, 29% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$50,154 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSOR LIFELINE OUTREACH INC. — C$50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ONTARIO DIVISION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCODE — C$48,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetS.H.A.R.E. AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — C$46,123 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetH204ALL — C$46,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFEED ONTARIO (FORMERLY ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS) — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY RELIEF AND REHABILITATION INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$38,700 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHRIVE FOR GOOD — C$35,130 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSALAMA SHIELD FOUNDATION — C$33,512 over 1y, 28% of budgetSHINE THROUGH THE RAIN FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$30,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES OF HALTON-HAMILTON — C$25,080 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HELPING ORPHANS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ETERNITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION HAMILTON — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION WATERLOO WELLINGTON — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS INTERNATIONAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA Hamilton — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS FOR AFIRCA FOUNDATION — C$22,136 over 1y, 23% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN IGLU — C$21,296 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ONTARIO - GREATER DURHAM — C$21,131 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING NORTH HALTON — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN LEARNING CENTRE — C$20,520 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELLNESS & EMOTIONAL SUPPORT (WES) FOR YOUTH ONLINE — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetONE CARE HOME + COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBOURS CANADA (NEPAL) — C$20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetRESIDENTIAL HOSPICE OF GREY-BRUCE INC. — C$19,781 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEEDS OF DIVERSITY CANADA-PROGRAMME SEMENCIER DU — C$18,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetALL NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — C$17,950 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEMBO (TANZANIA EDUCATION AND MICRO-BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY) — C$17,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE INC. — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$15,909 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEWATER CANADA — C$15,200 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…Elementary Teachers' …The Peter Gilgan Foun…The Peterborough K. M…Luke Four FoundationOntario Realtors Care…Unifor Social Justice…F. K. Morrow Foundati…The George Lunan Foun…Youth and Philanthrop…The Guelph Community …Gore Mutual Insurance…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON14.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fund · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation · Luke Four Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The Guelph Community Foundation · Gore Mutual Insurance Company 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 110 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 2024-09-30, 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 814996377:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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