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Mississauga, ON · Charitable organization

Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada

The foundation's mission is to support women living with cancer and to help put an end to violence against women by providing grants to women's shelters and supporting community outreach programs

C$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$130k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$160k
C$10,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$319k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER FOUNDATIONC$160,000
DISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETYC$10,000
STRATHCONA SHELTER SOCIETY LTDC$10,000
MAISON BALDWIN HOUSEC$10,000
INTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTONC$10,000
MULTI-FEMMESC$10,000
LE CENTRE LOUISE-AMÉLIEC$10,000
YUKON WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOME SOCIETYC$10,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES - OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL SOCIETYC$10,000
XOLHEMET SOCIETY - WILMAS TRANSITION SOCIETYC$10,000
SECOND STAGE HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF DARTMOUTHC$10,000
YORKTON WOMEN IN NEED INCC$10,000
PEI FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC.C$10,000
YWCA WESTMAN WOMEN'S SHELTERC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$1.1M
British Columbia
C$124k
Alberta
C$118k
Quebec
C$110k
Saskatchewan
C$76k
Manitoba
C$69k
Nova Scotia
C$60k
New Brunswick
C$56k
Prince Edward Island
C$47k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$25k
Yukon
C$10k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 11 repeat orgsC$735k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
99

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$80k 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

  • LG
    LOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$845k · revenue +78%
  • PF
    PEI FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC.
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$45k · revenue +66%
  • LL
    LIBERTY LANE INC.
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$29k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • LG
    LOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • TL
    THE LIBRA HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue +9%
  • YS
    YWCA SASKATOON INC.graduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +162%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
First Step Women's Shelter

To provide emergency shelter services and safety for women and their children that have been abused. support and assistance as well as advoacy is also provided with referrals to other agencies.

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2
Perth County Transition Home for Women Inc

Providing women and their children who are experiencing violence and abuse with emergency residential shelter supportive individual and group counselling referrals and support related to finding housing family court and navigating social…

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3
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey

Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with…

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4
Women in Transition House Inc

Women in transition house inc. operates an emergency shelter for abused women and their children. mandate includes operation of the shelter intervention counselling referral service child care/play service and therapy room.

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5
Committee On Family Violence Association

Committee on family violence operates willow house an emergency shelter for women and children who have experienced domestic violence and women in crisis

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6
Sussex Vale Transition House Inc.

Provides room and board counselling and referral services for women and their children who have been victims of domestic violence and abuse.

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7
Marjorie House

Marjorie house- emergency shelter provides women & children who are at risk & are victims of violence in-house counselling group counselling 24 hour crisis telephone responce emergency transportation advocary support resources & education.…

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8
Yorktown Shelter for Women

Yorktown Shelter for Women (YSW) provides a safe and secure haven for women and their children fleeing an abusive relationship. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day by a multilingual and multicultural team, who are committed to the…

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9
Anova: a Future Without Violence

emergency shelter and second stage housing for abused women and their children - crisis and short term counselling information and referral services - counselling and support to survivors who have experienced sexual violence - community…

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10
Greenhaven Shelter for Women

Violence against women - emergency housing counselling transitional and housing support coordinating committees broader public sector-other adults social services

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11
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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12
Family Transition Place

Emergency shelter and transportation for women and their children who have experienced abuse/homeless shelter /24h hours cirsis line/safety planning and program for high risk populations. couseling for women who have experienced abuse or…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Safe Haven/Resource Service Inc. and the most unlike its peers is La Sejournelle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 118 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
52/65
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 budgetLOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER FOUNDATION — C$845,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetPEI FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC. — C$44,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTY LANE INC. — C$29,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYORKTON WOMEN IN NEED INC — C$27,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSECOND STAGE HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF DARTMOUTH — C$27,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYUKON WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOME SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON — C$18,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLA GITEE INC. — C$18,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLA MAISON DALAUZE — C$18,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIRVIEW AND DISTRICT WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$18,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCAROL - ANN'S HOUSE — C$17,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LIBRA HOUSE — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA SASKATOON INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON FAMILY VIOLENCE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEVERGREEN TRANSITION HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE SPARKES HOUSE INC — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLE CENTRE LOUISE-AMÉLIE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOCHRANE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY (BIG HILL HAVEN) — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPEARL'S PLACE TRANSITION HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGILLIAN'S PLACE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATHCONA SHELTER SOCIETY LTD — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALDIMAND & NORFOLK WOMEN'S SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMULTI-FEMMES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRAUMA RECOVERY FOR EXPLOITED YOUTH ( TREY NS) — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetXOLHEMET SOCIETY - WILMAS TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE OF HOPE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLA RE-SOURCE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOOSE JAW TRANSITION HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA NWT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S SAFE HAVEN — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES - OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAISON HELENE-LACROIX — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISHTAR WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER SAAKAATE HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAISON BALDWIN HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAIRDRIE P.O.W.E.R — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF BARRIE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMROSE WOMENS SHELTER — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST. THOMAS ELGIN SECOND STAGE HOUSING — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHAVENS WAY (SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA) — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAISON DES FEMMES DE SEPT-ILES — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOY'S PLACE — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHELP AND HOPE FOR FAMILIES — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDIXON HOUSE — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAISON LE PRELUDE INC — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINASMUCH HOUSE MISSION SERVICE OF HAMILTON — C$9,000 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.

Women's Shelters Cana…Canadian Women's Foun…Shoppers Foundation f…Royal Lepage Shelter …Fondation RONAUnifor Social Justice…Jeremy's Memorial Fou…Youth and Philanthrop…Boston Pizza Foundati…Ontario Realtors Care…Manitoba Association …The Canadian Red Cros…
Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes CanadaON47.1× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation · Fondation RONA · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violence · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Boston Pizza Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc. · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge

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 118 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 863841995:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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