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Whitby, ON · Private foundation

Heron Family Foundation

The foundation continues to support numerous qualified donees during the year.

C$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$410k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k19 grants · C$411k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$828k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.1M
C$25,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AEBEQC$410,000
MISSION EURASIAC$380,000
SEMBEQC$360,000
MONTREAL YFCC$148,000
TYNDALEC$125,000
MISSION GOC$120,000
EBANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$78,000
POWER TO CHANGEC$63,000
GRACE MISSIONC$60,000
C2C COLLECTIVEC$60,000
SLAVIC GOSPELC$60,000
ALPHA CANADAC$60,000
YFC CANADAC$54,000
SHAREWORD GLOBALC$48,000
GREATER EUROPE MISSIONC$48,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$28M · 40 repeat orgsC$3.0M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
13

Total granted

C$28M
C$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+28%

Still filing today

93%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$167k 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

  • S
    SEMBEQ
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$4.6M · revenue +2% · 73% of their budget
  • ME
    MISSION EURASIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.2M · revenue +35% · 61% of their budget
  • GO
    GLOBAL OUTREACH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCHES IN CANADA FOUgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$1.0M · revenue ×15
  • FS
    FOUNDATION SEMBEQ
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.0M · revenue -34%
  • TB
    TORONTO BAPTIST SEMINARY
    one grant, 2019 · C$400k · revenue -15% · 29% 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
Global Disciples Canada

We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…

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2
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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3
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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4
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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5
Seed International Mission of Canada (Seed Canada)

Missionary training -bible studies

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6
Equip Leadership Canada

A) to provide personnel and resources for christian organizations and ministries; and b) to provide training and materials to christian leaders and individuals involved in evanglism and christian ministry worldwide

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7
Going Beyond Missions

Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings

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8
Evangelism Canada (a Christ Centred Ministry)

1. teaching and preaching 2. church planting 3. outreach 4. discipleship

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9
Christian Education Ministries International

To promote Christian Education world-wide in order to help make disciples of Jesus Christ and to educate the church in North America about cultures by creating opportunities for them to interact to actively participate in meeting people's…

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10
Great Commission Collective Canada

Planting churches training and coaching pastors training elders resourcing churches

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11
Global Christian Ministries

Developing ministries and christian leadership by training pastors and lay workers funding missionary outreach program including attendance by chairman in countries where mission work is done

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12
Ambassadors for Christ Canada

Provide leadership conferences training and church planting support in developing countries. Also to provide spiritual life and evangelism conferences in Canada as well as in first nations church community

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bible League of Canada and the most unlike its peers is China Partner. 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

56 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. 56 of the 61 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEMBEQ — C$4,551,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetMISSION EURASIA — C$4,199,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH — C$2,985,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetASSOCIATION D'EGLISES BAPTISTES EVANGELIQUES AU QUEBEC — C$2,560,006 over 6y, 32% of budgetFRENCH MISSION — C$1,285,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetGRACE MISSION — C$1,074,000 over 8y, 59% of budgetTYNDALE UNIVERSITY — C$1,050,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetMONTREAL YFC — C$729,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetEVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP CANADA — C$722,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSIM CANADA — C$695,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION — C$678,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetREACH BEYOND — C$532,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE — C$457,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA — C$420,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSHAREWORD GLOBAL — C$412,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTORONTO BAPTIST SEMINARY — C$400,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION — C$374,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetYFC CANADA — C$368,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEGLISE BAPISTE EVANGELIQUE D'AHUNTSIC — C$350,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetJEWS FOR JESUS — C$295,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetCROSSROADS — C$259,999 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHERITAGE COLLEGE — C$242,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCHINA PARTNER — C$241,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetKAWARTHA YOUTH UNLIMITED — C$220,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetBIBLE ART MINISTRIES — C$208,002 over 8y, 69% of budgetPLEASANT BAY BIBLE CONFERENCE GROUNDS INC. — C$200,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetCANADIAN YOUTH NETWORK — C$179,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetC2C COLLECTIVE — C$160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN ROAD CHAPELS — C$123,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE TORONTO CITY MISSION — C$115,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMULTIPLY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetETHNOS CANADA — C$96,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBCM CANADA INT. INC. — C$90,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCROSS WORLD — C$84,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEGLISE BAPTISTE EVANGELIQUE DE RIVIÈRE-DES-PRAIRIES — C$80,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCHRISTIAN DIRECTION — C$66,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPICKERING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATION AT PRAYER — C$48,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetOPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCCLN — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYOUTH WORKER COMMUNITY/TRUTH MATTERS — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGATHER WOMEN — C$25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetOMF INTERNATIONAL — C$23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUEL SCHOOL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGHANA RURAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSFORME QUEBEC — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMISSIONAL LABS — C$15,000 over 1y, 7.0% 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 SEMBEQ ↗
  • Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION D'EGLISES BAPTISTES EVANGELIQUES AU QUEBEC ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TYNDALE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCHES IN CANADA FOU ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION SEMBEQ ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAL YFC ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SIM CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds REACH BEYOND ↗
  • Who funds POWER TO CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SHAREWORD GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO BAPTIST SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds YFC CANADA ↗
  • Who funds EGLISE BAPISTE EVANGELIQUE D'AHUNTSIC ↗
  • Who funds JEWS FOR JESUS ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHINA PARTNER ↗
  • Who funds KAWARTHA YOUTH UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE ART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANT BAY BIBLE CONFERENCE GROUNDS INC. ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN YOUTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds C2C COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ROAD CHAPELS ↗
  • Who funds THE TORONTO CITY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLY ↗
  • Who funds ETHNOS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BCM CANADA INT. INC. ↗
  • Who funds CROSS WORLD ↗

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 National Chr…The Charis FoundationLink Charity Canada I…Bramalea Baptist Chur…World Charitable Foun…D H Falle Family Foun…The Daccord Family Fo…Calvary Baptist Churc…Mariann TrustEmmanuel Baptist Chur…Peoples Ministries In…The Foundation Office…
Canadian National Christian FoundationON13.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canadian National Christian Foundation · The Charis Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Bramalea Baptist Church · World Charitable Foundation of Canada · D H Falle Family Foundation · The Daccord Family Foundation · Calvary Baptist Church Oshawa · Mariann Trust · Emmanuel Baptist Church of Barrie · Peoples Ministries Inc. · The Foundation Office.Ca

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 61 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 848406526:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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