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C$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
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.

C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONC$25,000
YELLOW BRICK HOUSEC$25,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$15,000
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTOC$15,000
YORK REGION CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY SAFETYC$10,000
YWCAC$10,000
MICHAEL HOUSEC$10,000
TORONTO RAPE CRISIS CENTREC$10,000
CHERUB'S INNC$10,000
ATLOHSA FAMILY HEALING SERVICESC$10,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$569k · 10 repeat orgsC$119k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

C$569k
C$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$225k · revenue +172%
  • YT
    YWCA - TORONTO
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +55%
  • YB
    YELLOW BRICK HOUSE
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$55k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • MP
    MARILLAC PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue +75%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$13k · revenue +24%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTRE GREY/BRUCE
    one grant, 2021 · C$11k · revenue +23%

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
Yorktown Shelter for Women

Yorktown Shelter for Women (YSW) provides a safe and secure haven for women and their children fleeing an abusive relationship. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day by a multilingual and multicultural team, who are committed to the…

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2
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey

Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with…

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3
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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4
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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5
Ywca Nwt

Family Violence Shelters: It is a secure and anonymous place for women & their children to receive support while they are fleeing violence. Family Centre: The Centre is for children up to age 5. We focus on mental and physical wellness and…

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6
Yorktown Family Services

Violence against women services (vaws) provide a safe haven for women and their children fleeing abusive relationships. the shelter staffed 24/7 is supported by a multilingual and multicultural team committed to the well-being and…

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7
North York Women's Resource Centre

NYWC delivers programs for women by women. Programs include: • Women’s Empowerment – A skill-based series that builds on women’s strengths and personal power to promote self-confidence and success. • Violence Prevention and Support…

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8
Yukon Womens Transition Home Society

24 hour 15 bed shelter for women and children fleeing violence 10 unit affordable second stage housing for up to 18 months with possibility of extension. Support to women through referrals advocacy and peer counselling Assist and advocate…

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9
Ywca Regina Inc.

We provide 1.safe supportive housing to women and children fleeing violence; 2.emergency shelter to women and children experiencing homelessness; 3.safe affordable housing to single women including support regarding life skills problem…

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10
Victoria Women's Transition House Society

For 50 years Victoria Women's Transition House Society has provided safe shelter counselling education and support for women of all ages with or without children to live free from violence and abuse in intimate relationships. We strive to…

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11
Halton Women's Place

We operate two emergency shelters in Halton Region for abused women and their dependent children. Staff are on duty 24/7 and meals clothing information transportation and other related services are available. We operate a 24 hour crisis…

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12
Timmins and Area Women in Crisis

The women's crisis centre provides support crisis intervention public education resource materials workshops 10 bed shelter a 24-hour crisis line support groups advocacy accompaniement practical assistance family court support program…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Toronto and the most unlike its peers is National Family Support and Restoration 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

21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA - TORONTO — C$85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW BRICK HOUSE — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTERS — C$45,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISISTERS TECHNOLOGY MENTORING — C$24,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMICHAEL HOUSE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARILLAC PLACE — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE GREY/BRUCE — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE OF YORK REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO RAPE CRISIS CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERUB'S INN — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMCDOUGALL HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Canadian Women's Foun…Shoppers Foundation f…The Home Depot Canada…Youth and Philanthrop…BenefAction FoundationUnifor Social Justice…Ontario Realtors Care…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Makeway FoundationOntario Power Generat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct Foundation
Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des FemmesON12.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · BenefAction Foundation · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct 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 21 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 819104779:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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