Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Jacob and Catherine Wolak Foundation
The foundation gathers funds in order to help needed missions carry out their work.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST. HYACINTH MISSION FUND | C$2,000 |
| AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED | C$2,000 |
| CANADIAN FOOD FOR CHILDREN | C$2,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | C$500 |
| TORONTO RIGHT TO LIFE ASSOCIATION | C$500 |
| EWTN | C$200 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$200 went to new ones.
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
- ATAIDD TO THE CHURCH IN NEED4× · 2017–2020 · C$12k · revenue +50%
- SOSisters of Life2× · 2018–2020 · C$2k · revenue +200%
- TRTORONTO RIGHT TO LIFE ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2020 · C$2k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- EEWTNone grant, 2020 · C$200 · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
6 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.