Lunenburg, ON · Private foundation
Karma Foundation
The foundation was formed to receive and distribute funds to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1 (1) of the income tax act (canada).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACLAREN ART CENTRE | C$2,000 |
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.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- CACANADIAN ANIMAL ASSISTANCE TEAM3× · 2019–2021 · C$15k · revenue +18%
- DBDAVID BUSBY STREET CENTRE3× · 2019–2021 · C$15k · revenue +206%
- CFCENTRE FOR ADDITION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · C$15k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- DFDRESS FOR SUCESSone grant, 2020 · C$5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Provide emergency food assistance and consultation and referral to encourage self sufficiency.
Health care services to the community
We provide emergency shelter and necessities to abused women and their children as well as additional services such as court support housing support one-on-one and group supportive counselling for both women and their children. these…
Offers essential services to those struggling with homelessness incomes below the poverty line social isolation addiction and mental health issues. We provide a community of services including hot meals clothing food pantry laundry…
Youth haven (barrie) is a crisis care facility offering emergency shelter food and clothing. since 1987 it has been a place of refuge where youth can get both support and encouragement in finding work housing and continuing education.
Hearing and speach disadvantaged women + children community needs
Disbursing grants to qualified donees and soliciting new endowment funds were the sole activities during the year
To provide ongoing care for surrendered abandoned and feral cats in the orillia area. trapping feral cats and having them spayed and neutered and adopted if possible or returned to colonies where they are fed by volunteers.
Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…
Women's shelter counselling group support food & clothing for women and children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women & Children's Shelter (Barrie) and the most unlike its peers is Redwood Park Communities Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
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.
- Who funds CANADIAN ANIMAL ASSISTANCE TEAM ↗
- Who funds DAVID BUSBY STREET CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDITION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF BARRIE ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD PARK COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BARRIE AND DISTRICT CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCESS ↗
- Who funds MACLAREN ART CENTRE ↗
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: Barrie Community Foundation · United Way Simcoe Muskoka · Westside Evangelical Lutheran Church · Grace United Church · The Legacy for You Foundation · The Tonglen Foundation · The Albarrie Foundation · Simcoe County District School Board (Scdsb) · Honda Canada Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver 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.