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Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation

The harry e.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$109k
  • C$10k–50k46 grants · C$797k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$171k
C$15,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADAC$65,000
COMMUNITY LIVING TORONTOC$56,320
COMMUNITY LIVING NORTH HALTONC$50,000
INVESTING IN CHILDREN INC.C$35,000
THE CENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$30,000
CENTRE FOR OPPORTUNITIES RESPECT & ENPOWERMENTC$30,000
GROCER 4 GOOD ABILITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMC$30,000
QUINTE VOCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICESC$25,500
THE PARTICIPATION HOUSE PROJECT (DURHAM REGION)C$25,000
HUB FOR BEYOND 21 FOUNDATIONC$25,000
LAKERIDGE HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
COMMUNITY LIVING HUNTSVILLEC$25,000
COMMUNITY LIVING OAKVILLEC$20,000
COMMUNITY LIVING NEWMARKET/AURORA DISTRICTC$20,000
COMMUNITY LIVING WALLACEBURGC$20,000
02The need
02

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$6.4M
Nova Scotia
C$104k
Prince Edward Island
C$35k
Saskatchewan
C$20k
Quebec
C$10k
Manitoba
C$10k
New Brunswick
C$10k
British Columbia
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.5M · 81 repeat orgsC$1.1M 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 +18% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
68

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+18%

Still filing today

99%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$327k 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

  • SO
    Special Olympics Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +36%
  • CL
    Community Living Toronto
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$402k · revenue +33%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLUMPICS CANADA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$318k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHRISTIAN HORIZONS
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue -27%
  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +1%
  • LS
    L'ARCHE SUDBURY INC.
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +8%

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
Community Living Cambridge

At Community Living Cambridge we partner with individuals who have developmental disabilities and their community to live fulfilling lives. We do so by operating 26 group homes and apartments through independent living supports in the…

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2
Community Living Hamilton

Community Living Hamilton is an organization providing services and supports to individuals with an intellectual disability and their families. Services include: Community Participation Leisure and Recreation Respite Employment Residential…

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3
Canopy Support Services

Canopy Support Services delivers case management services for adults who have exceptional needs and advocacy services for individuals who have exceptional needs. Provide mediator based training to parents of children with behaviourial…

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4
Community Living Burlington

All programs are provided for individuals with a developmental disability. residential - provide residential services to individuals 365 days per year up to 24 hours per day employment - help find work in the community. day programs - life…

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5
Let's Grow - Learning and Living Hub

We are a safe and fun midtown Toronto day program designed specifically for complex developmental and physically disabled adults. We believe each team member is unique and on a path of living and learning. Our community warmly welcomes our…

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6
Community Living Association for South Simcoe

Class continues to support people with developmental disability through a range of accommodation options for adults with developmental disabilities programs for youth with developmental disabilities such as transition planning and support…

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7
Community Living-Central Huron

Community living-central huron provides a variety of staffing support to adults & children with a developmental disability. these supports include: 24hr in-home assistance; indepenent living assistance; employment; social & individuals…

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8
Innovative Community Support Services

The organization operates residences for physically and developmentally delayed adults. the organization offers employment programs social enterprise community programming and semi-independent living for individuals.

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9
Alternatives - Community Program Services (Peterborough) Inc.

Day programs for developmentally challenged adults. employment support programs for those with any kind of disability. supported independent living programs for developmental challenged adults

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10
Vita Community Living Services of Toronto Inc

Vita community living services of toronto provides residential programs in group homes and apartment settings respite programs for adults and youth adult life skills and work experience training for individuals with developmental…

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11
Community Living York South

Community Living York South operates programs serving individuals with intellectual disabilities in the southern sector of York Region Ontario encompassing the municipalities of Richmond Hill Markham Vaughan and Witchurch-Stouffville.…

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12
Reena Inc.

1. reena provides services for developmentally disabled adults most of whom were previously institutionalized but who are now living and working within the community. 2. reena also supports children with autism. 3. reena provides…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Living St. Catharines and the most unlike its peers is Propeller Dance. 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

156 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. 156 of the 170 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/156
Grantees still filing
118/156
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 budgetSpecial Olympics Canada — C$1,195,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Living Toronto — C$402,120 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLUMPICS CANADA FOUNDATION — C$317,758 over 6y, 11% of budgetPARTICIPATION HOUSE DURHAM — C$227,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetQUINTE VOCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES — C$157,800 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE WILLOW CENTRE CHILD & FAMILY FDN. — C$140,000 over 8y, 93% of budgetINVESTING IN CHILDREN INC. — C$115,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetAbilities Centre Durham — C$115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$110,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$101,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Greater Toronto — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND CO-OPERATIVE — C$91,287 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetNEW VISIONS TORONTO — C$83,579 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBrands for Canada Ontario — C$81,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetL'ARCHE TORONTO — C$81,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGood Foot Delivery — C$80,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARBROOK SOCIETY (O/A DARLING HOME FOR KIDS) — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING LONDON — C$71,618 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — C$70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGeneva Centre for Autism Foundation — C$65,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING NORTH HALTON — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE — C$60,250 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetL'ARCHE CAPE BRETON — C$60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGIANT STEPS TORONTO/YORK REGION — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMOORE.ANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetL'Arche London — C$58,104 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVE'AHAVTA — C$56,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING OAKVILLE — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM HOME BASE DURHAM — C$54,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING HUNTSVILLE — C$52,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILLOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC. — C$48,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARMONY PLACE SUPPORT SERVICES — C$45,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetH'art Centre — C$45,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING WELLAND PELHAM — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTPRINTS FOR AUTISM — C$39,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN HORIZONS — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Living Peterborough — C$35,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING CHATHAM KENT — C$32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING KINCARDINE AND DISTRICT — C$30,687 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetReach for the Rainbow Ontario — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR OPPORTUNITIES RESPECT & ENPOWERMENT — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN HORIZONS — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROCER 4 GOOD ABILITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — C$30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHUB FOR BEYOND 21 FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.0% 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.

  • Who funds Special Olympics Canada ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Toronto ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLUMPICS CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTICIPATION HOUSE DURHAM ↗
  • Who funds QUINTE VOCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLOW CENTRE CHILD & FAMILY FDN. ↗
  • Who funds INVESTING IN CHILDREN INC. ↗
  • Who funds Abilities Centre Durham ↗
  • Who funds JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Toronto ↗
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND CO-OPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NEW VISIONS TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Brands for Canada Ontario ↗
  • Who funds L'ARCHE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Good Foot Delivery ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARBROOK SOCIETY (O/A DARLING HOME FOR KIDS) ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING LONDON ↗
  • Who funds WOODSTOCK & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Geneva Centre for Autism Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING NORTH HALTON ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds L'ARCHE CAPE BRETON ↗
  • Who funds GIANT STEPS TORONTO/YORK REGION ↗
  • Who funds MOORE.ANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UHN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds L'Arche London ↗
  • Who funds VE'AHAVTA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING OAKVILLE ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM HOME BASE DURHAM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING HUNTSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds WILLOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC. ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY PLACE SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) ↗
  • Who funds H'art Centre ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING WELLAND PELHAM ↗
  • Who funds FOOTPRINTS FOR AUTISM ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Peterborough ↗

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 Harold E. Ballard…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…The George Lunan Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Ben and Hilda Kat…Goodlife Kids Foundat…Jays Care FoundationMarion Ethel Kamm and…The Toronto Star Chil…The Georgina Foundati…
The Harold E. Ballard FoundationON27.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harold E. Ballard Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation · Goodlife Kids Foundation · Jays Care Foundation · Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Charitable Trust · The Toronto Star Children's Charities · The Georgina 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 170 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 132116914:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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