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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

Locking Arms Foundation

Supporting registered charities mainly in the city of waterloo and surrounding area concentrating on charities dealing with health poverty education and municipal improvements.

C$607k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$300k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$300k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIPC$100,001
WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$100,000
EPILEPSY ONTARIOC$50,000
EPILEPSY SOUTH CENTRAL ONTARIOC$50,000
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEEC$40,001
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADAC$30,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWSC$25,000
INTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADAC$20,004
FRIENDS OF THE MENNONITE CENTRE IN UKRAINE INC.C$20,003
BEYOND HOUSINGC$20,002
THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$20,000
TINY HOME TAKEOUTC$20,000
AUTISM ONTARIOC$20,000
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOOC$20,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$680k · 8 repeat orgsC$312k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

C$680k
C$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+58%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$227k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • WR
    WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$130k · revenue +10%
  • BH
    BEYOND HOUSING
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$40k · revenue +39%
  • SH
    SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$30k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IC
    INDWELL COMMUNITY HOMESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +99%
  • LS
    LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +3%
  • CC
    CONESTOGA COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED LEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +58%

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
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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2
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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4
Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc.

Reception house - waterloo region is established to provide temporary accomodation education counselling and other support services for refugees and government assisted refugees in need arriving in the regional municipality of waterloo.…

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5
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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6
Community Living Toronto

Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…

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7
Lutherwood

In operation since 1970 Lutherwood offers a range of mental health and social service programs in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington County. We provide the following: • We help children and their families work through mental health…

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8
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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9
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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10
Waterloo Region Family Network

Waterloo region network supports families of children youth and adults with special needs both with and without a diagnosis in waterloo region prviding resources and facilitating meaningful connections in all life stages. as a…

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11
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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12
Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region

Community mediation and dialogue services sexual harm services youth and adult serious crime dialogue Stride services supporting incarcerated women family dialogues elder dialogue and support services. Homesharing Justice Centre - creating…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Friendship and the most unlike its peers is The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. 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

23 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. 23 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
6/23
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 budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$200,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MENNONITE CENTRE IN UKRAINE INC. — C$80,003 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$80,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY SOUTH CENTRAL ONTARIO — C$60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetINDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY ONTARIO — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING — C$40,002 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADA — C$20,004 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAUTISM ONTARIO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTINY HOME TAKEOUT — C$20,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMILLENNIUM RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSVP WATERLOO REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAMINO WELLBEING + MENTAL HEALTH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONESTOGA COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED LEARN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED ROCK BIBLE CAMP — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Region Commu…Abundance CanadaAstley Family Foundat…The Cowan FoundationHamilton Community Fo…Link Charity Canada I…Janzen Family Foundat…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…The Food Bank of Wate…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Strategic Charitable …
United Way Waterloo Region CommunitiesON11.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Abundance Canada · Astley Family Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Janzen Family Foundation Inc. · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 24 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 746485341:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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