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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto)

Provides free access to community events for children youth and their caregivers through the distribution of donated arts culture sports and recreational opportunities.

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
180
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$420k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 180 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k139 grants · C$446k
  • C$10k–50k33 grants · C$697k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$667k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$420k
C$4,420
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD (TCDSB)C$419,908
COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIOC$127,701
ONTARIO PARENTS ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCERC$103,715
TORONTO HIFZ ACADEMYC$102,420
REXDALE WOMEN'S CENTREC$97,977
NATIVE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTOC$93,947
TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$89,952
A SMOOTH WAY TO SUCCESSC$51,127
ESPERANCE CHARITABLE FUNDC$44,809
JANE FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTREC$36,735
WORKING WOMEN COMMUNITY CENTREC$34,179
COSTI IMMIGRANT SERVICESC$30,622
4REASONZC$29,886
EASTVIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY CENTREC$29,846
YOUTH ASSISTING YOUTHC$29,531
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$13M · 266 repeat orgsC$513k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

266 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2024, 114 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

266
62

Total granted

C$13M
C$366k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+29%

Still filing today

84%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$147k 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

  • TC
    TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +27%
  • RW
    REXDALE WOMEN'S CENTRE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$405k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    Toronto Foundation for Student Success
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$355k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AS
    A Smooth Way to Success
    one grant, 2017 · C$87k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k
  • ET
    Educate Train Believe Achieve
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k

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
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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2
The York Centre for Children, Youth & Families

The York Centre provides a range of treatment and intervention mental health related services for children, youth, and families who live in York Region. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team based upon a comprehensive approach…

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3
Central Toronto Youth Services

1. responds to the needs of young people their families and the youth serving community through advocacy research education & direct service programming. 2. provide & offer support & counseling services for youth via groupwork community…

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4
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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5
Family Service Toronto

1. Mental Health Counselling- Provide counseling education seminars and support for individuals and families coping with issues including separation/divorce depression sexual orientation and senior care. 2. Gender-Based Violence…

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6
Community Youth Programs Inc

Community youth programs provides housing and support for adolescents aged 15 to 18 who are unable to live with a family and unprepared for independent living. there is an emphasis on school achievement and part-time paid or volunteer work…

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7
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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8
East York and East Toronto Family Resources Organization

(1) Community capacity-building activities; (2) family support including outreach referrals parenting education; (3) early child development pre/peri/post natal supports; (4) peer-to-peer social supports harm reduction education; (5)…

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9
Neighbourhood Works Inc.

We serve children youth and their families in care with the minister of social development one co-ed youth homes ages 12 to 18 years two sibling homes ages birth to 25 years adult outreach worker for those experiencing homelessness…

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10
Trellis Society for Community Impact

At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association York Region Branch

Cmha supports youth (age 12 to 25) with programs such mobyss bounceback choices and youth wellness. epi program supports youth aged 14-34 that are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. cmha serves adult clients in variety of programs…

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12
Rebound Child & Youth Services Inc.

Providing children youth and families with programs and supportive services that build strength of character and strength of community for the purposed of positive change. programming/services include youth justice diversion life/social…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Child and Family Services of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Three to Be. 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

304 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. 304 of the 354 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)
78
Early backer (in before they grew)
278/304
Grantees still filing
235/304
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD (TCDSB) — C$2,102,860 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREXDALE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$405,163 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetToronto Foundation for Student Success — C$355,412 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCABBAGETOWN YOUTH CENTRE — C$326,492 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO — C$321,840 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetThe Neighbourhood Organization (formerly Thorncliffe Nei — C$257,147 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetEASTVIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$240,830 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetONTARIO PARENTS ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER — C$232,019 over 7y, 41% of budgetJane Finch Community and Family Centre — C$230,315 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSilent Voice — C$198,779 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetYonge Street Mission — C$191,122 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO HIFZ ACADEMY — C$180,367 over 4y, 16% of budgetNATIVE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$178,463 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWoodgreen Community Services — C$177,692 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Assisting Youth — C$169,609 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAlexandra Park Community Centre — C$153,960 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetCosti Immigrant Services — C$133,520 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEWCOMER WOMEN'S SERVICES TORONTO — C$120,661 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICE — C$107,423 over 7y, 20% of budgetHOSPICE TORONTO — C$100,347 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetRenascent — C$97,556 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEPHRAIM'S PLACE COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$97,471 over 4y, 30% of budgetChristie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre — C$94,374 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity Settlement — C$91,342 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWest Neighbourhood House — C$88,183 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Angel Foundation for Learning — C$86,002 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSt. Alban's Boys & Girls Club — C$83,796 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAfghan Women's Organization — C$83,166 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO (164 FOR YMCA NEWCOMER) — C$80,652 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO COUNCIL FIRE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE — C$78,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PEEL — C$75,177 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — C$75,128 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS BEYOND LIMITS EDUCATION PROGRAM — C$74,853 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetYWCA Toronto — C$74,698 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCultureLink Settlement and Community Services — C$73,855 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetROMERO HOUSE — C$73,138 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP — C$72,029 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDown Syndrome Association Toronto — C$68,636 over 7y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST SCARBOROUGH — C$68,056 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSt. Stephen's Community House — C$67,154 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$66,397 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChildhood Cancer Canada Foundation — C$62,641 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWarden Woods Community Centre — C$61,804 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetThe 519 — C$57,596 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFlemingdon Health Centre — C$57,366 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWoodGreen Community Services — C$57,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWaterfront Neighbourhood Centre — C$56,901 over 3y, 11% of budgetVariety Village — C$56,659 over 8y, 0.4% 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 TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD (TCDSB) ↗
  • Who funds REXDALE WOMEN'S CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Foundation for Student Success ↗
  • Who funds CABBAGETOWN YOUTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds The Neighbourhood Organization (formerly Thorncliffe Nei ↗
  • Who funds EASTVIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO PARENTS ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER ↗
  • Who funds Jane Finch Community and Family Centre ↗
  • Who funds Silent Voice ↗
  • Who funds Yonge Street Mission ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO HIFZ ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Woodgreen Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Youth Assisting Youth ↗
  • Who funds Alexandra Park Community Centre ↗
  • Who funds Costi Immigrant Services ↗
  • Who funds NEWCOMER WOMEN'S SERVICES TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANCE CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds BLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Renascent ↗
  • Who funds EPHRAIM'S PLACE COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre ↗
  • Who funds University Settlement ↗
  • Who funds West Neighbourhood House ↗
  • Who funds The Angel Foundation for Learning ↗
  • Who funds St. Alban's Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds Afghan Women's Organization ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER TORONTO (164 FOR YMCA NEWCOMER) ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO COUNCIL FIRE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PEEL ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS BEYOND LIMITS EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds YWCA Toronto ↗
  • Who funds CultureLink Settlement and Community Services ↗

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.

Chum Charitable Found…The Toronto Star Chil…Mlse FoundationTippet FoundationDaily Bread Food BankJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Robert Kerr FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The Catherine and Max…The George Lunan Foun…TD Securities Underwr…Toronto Foundation
Chum Charitable FoundationON57.1× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chum Charitable Foundation · The Toronto Star Children's Charities · Mlse Foundation · Tippet Foundation · Daily Bread Food Bank · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · Toronto 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 354 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 charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 805044542:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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