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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

In the Spirit Giving Foundation

The foundation financially supports charitable organizations by gifting funds to qualified donees.

C$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$95k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$110k
C$25,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION HALTONC$60,000
WATER FIRSTC$50,000
WESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES INCC$25,000
BURLINGTON GREENC$25,000
OTTAWA MISSIONC$25,000
SHIFRA HOMESC$10,000
FOOD 4 KIDS HALTONC$10,000
CFUW BURLINGTON FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FUNDC$1,500
COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEARC$1,500
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$815k · 11 repeat orgsC$124k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

C$815k
C$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CH
    CONSERVATION HALTON
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$160k · revenue +61%
  • WF
    WATER FIRST
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$150k · revenue +383%
  • QF
    QAJUNQTURIK FOOD BANK
    2× · 2019–2022 · C$106k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • BG
    BURLINGTON GREEN
    one grant, 2019 · C$40k
  • IT
    INTERNATIONAL TEAMS
    one grant, 2020 · C$11k · revenue -15%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE - HAMILTONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +73%

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
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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2
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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3
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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4
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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5
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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7
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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8
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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9
Hamilton Community Foundation

Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. we facilitate…

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10
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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11
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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12
CityFund Foundation

The Foundation provides funds to qualified donees to further its charitable interests. Examples include: City of Toronto City of Burlington City of Brampton.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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

24 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. 24 of the 26 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
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 budgetCONSERVATION HALTON — C$160,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetWATER FIRST — C$150,200 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBURLINGTON GREEN — C$145,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetOTTAWA MISSION — C$125,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetQAJUNQTURIK FOOD BANK — C$106,460 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHALTON WOMEN'S PALCE — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES INC — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA FOOD BANKS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMLSE — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TEAMS — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS HALTON — C$10,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE - HAMILTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFRA HOMES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HAMILTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR — C$5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND (CORE) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEAGEN BEBENEK FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY - STRONG 50 — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEO — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSICKIDS FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTERRY FOX RUN — C$200 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.

Burlington Community …Toronto FoundationOakville Community Fo…Rotary Club of Burlin…The Rotary Club of Bu…United Way Golden Hor…Hamilton Community Fo…Canada GivesRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…BenefAction Foundation
Burlington Community FoundationON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burlington Community Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Burlington North Foundation Inc. · The Rotary Club of Burlington-Lakeshore Trust Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Hamilton Community Foundation · Canada Gives · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction 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 26 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 745433714:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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