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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation

The gordon and ruth gooder charitable foundation hopes the legacy of its founders will be to have helped improve the lives of youth at risk.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$223k
  • C$50k–250k16 grants · C$1.3M
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONC$150,000
THE KING'S TRUST CANADAC$150,000
LOFT COMMUNITY SERVICESC$125,000
RICK HANSEN FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE YONGE STREET MISSIONC$100,000
FOCUS FORWARD FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTHC$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER TORONTOC$75,000
CNIBC$50,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$50,000
HOME HORIZON GEORGIAN TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL SERVICESC$50,000
RISE ASSET DEVELOPMENTC$50,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGC$50,000
TORONTO KIWANIS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$50,000
BUSINESS IN THE STREETSC$50,000
FERNIE YOUTH SERVICESC$50,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 34 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
35

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+23%

Still filing today

97%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$781k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$375k · revenue +16%
  • TY
    THE YONGE STREET MISSION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$352k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    Covenant House of Toronto
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$325k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • ST
    Sistema Toronto Academygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$150k · revenue +84%
  • NY
    NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue -4%
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -4%

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
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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2
Junior Achievement of Central Ontario

Here at JA Central Ontario we envision a world in which young people have the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities. We want to make sure all young people are economically empowered with the skills confidence and networks to…

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3
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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4
Girls E-Mentorship Innovation

Girls e-mentorship (gem) is a registered charitable organization that offers an innovative mentorship program for high school girls facing multiple barriers gem equips girls with the necessary skills to achieve their grown-up aspirations…

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5
For Youth Initiative in Toronto

The organization provides programs to create and foster an inclusive environment where youth and adult representatives of the diverse community of york in the city of toronto can work in partnership to address youth needs and issues and…

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6
Housing for Youth in the City of York Corporation

The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.

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7
Lay-Up Youth Basketball

Lay-up is working on the future of access to basketball through cost-free leadership basketball programs in toronto's priority communities. lay-up's mission is to empower youth with confidence life skills and to support their positive…

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8
Mindtrust Inc.

Mindtrust leadership program is responding to the need to develop next generation of leaders and is intended for impact-driven and mature students with an interest in the future leadershiop. this program features seven interactive sessions…

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9
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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10
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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11
Trellis Society for Community Impact

At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…

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12
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. 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

86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
52/86
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 budgetRick Hansen Foundation — C$900,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$375,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YONGE STREET MISSION — C$352,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCovenant House of Toronto — C$325,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE — C$200,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPathways to Education — C$160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSistema Toronto Academy — C$150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$150,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE KING'S TRUST CANADA — C$150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$145,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcDermott House Canada — C$113,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS FORWARD FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTH — C$100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDixon Hall — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOUNDATION (CANA — C$100,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLet's Talk Science — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for Canada — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$99,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBUSINESS IN THE STREETS — C$80,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetPine River Foundation — C$76,791 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CANADA — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPSTONES FOR YOUTH — C$75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Hincks-Dellcrest Foundation — C$55,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTON FRONTLINES CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRISE ASSET DEVELOPMENT — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOME HORIZON GEORGIAN TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER TORONTO AREA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTORONTO KIWANIS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFERNIE YOUTH SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGE HULL CENTRE — C$45,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKennedy House Youth Services Inc. — C$45,000 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.

The McLean FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Robert Kerr FoundationToronto FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…The Slaight Family Fo…Jackman FoundationThe Bickle-Wilder Fou…Aubrey & Marla Dan Fo…
The McLean FoundationON23.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation · Aubrey & Marla Dan 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 86 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 2024-03-31, 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 850240110:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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