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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

H B Gordon Education Foundation

To solicit and receive gifts bequests trusts funds and property and beneficially or as a trustee or agent to hold invest develop mange accumulate and administer funds and property for the purpose of distributing funds and property exclusively to regsitered charities and 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act…

C$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SVP WATERLOO REGIONC$50,000
ST MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO REGIONC$5,000
KITCHENER WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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$305k · 7 repeat orgsC$61k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

C$305k
C$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+21%

Still filing today

57%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • RC
    RARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$65k · revenue +14%
  • SW
    SVP Waterloo Region
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$48k · revenue +100%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$37k · revenue +237%

Funded once

  • HC
    HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue -61%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -1%
  • TC
    THE CENTRE IN THE SQUARE INC.graduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue +105%

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
Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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2
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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3
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery connecting people and ideas through art with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations the Gallery collects preserves researches…

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4
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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5
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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6
Waterloo Region Green Solutions

The purposes of the organization are: 1. To deliver environmental programs and services including household and community action designed to promote: a) sustainable resource use renewable energy energy efficiency b) clean air water soil c)…

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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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9
Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation

The charity is primary a grant making organization which supports heritage initiatives in waterloo region. its primary purpose is to preserve and financially assist in the preservation of heritage landmarks historical buildings and other…

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10
Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region

1. increase awareness of the value of volunteering - we promote educate and advocate for volunteerism; we foster a culture of volunteerism within waterloo region. 2. provide easy access for community members to volunteer / participate - we…

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11
Leadership Waterloo Region

Leadership waterloo region is an educational program for future leaders in waterloo region. the program is designed to identify and nurture potential leaders to develop a network of people who can work to solve community problems and to…

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12
John Howard Society of Waterloo - Wellington

Programs include various youth programs such as youth justice and bullying and prevention programs in schools. adult programs include partner assault response back on track programs and many others which follow the mandate of promoting and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Hopespring Cancer Support Centre. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
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 budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSVP Waterloo Region — C$47,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGIONAL FAMILY NETWORK — C$17,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHopeSpring Cancer Support Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRE IN THE SQUARE INC. — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODBANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Eyesight Universal — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC. D. HOWE INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARIZON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMLSE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…Abundance CanadaThe Cloverleaf Founda…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Jewish Foundation of …Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …My Tribute Gift Found…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON11.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Abundance Canada · The Cloverleaf Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · My Tribute Gift 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 17 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 2024-02-28, 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 816213821:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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