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Winnipeg, MB · Public foundation

Mealshare Aid Foundation

Gifts to qualified donees education related to hunger and relief of poverty.

C$672k
Granted FY2021
297
Grants FY2021
12
Regions reached
C$129k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 297 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k286 grants · C$281k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$190k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$200k
C$384
Median grant
12
Regions reached
C$122k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILDREN CANADAC$128,624
CLUB DES PETITS DÉJEUNERS DU CANADA - BREAKFAST CLUB OF CC$71,744
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETYC$33,270
TRELLIS SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY IMPACTC$33,270
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KAWARTHA LAKESC$32,816
THE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETYC$24,955
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAMILTONC$14,912
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$13,594
Y.E.S.S. YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY OF EDMONTONC$12,615
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THOMPSON INC.C$12,615
DANS LA RUEC$12,362
CALGARY DROP-IN AND REHAB SOCIETYC$9,282
OPERATION COME HOME/OPÉRATION RETNRER AU FOYERC$8,631
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SUMMERSIDE INCC$8,525
PARKDALE FOOD CENTREC$7,568
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$998k
Alberta
C$611k
Quebec
C$432k
British Columbia
C$327k
Manitoba
C$63k
Saskatchewan
C$23k
Prince Edward Island
C$10k
Nova Scotia
C$6k
New Brunswick
C$6k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$4k
Yukon
C$1k
Northwest Territories
C$773

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.3M · 51 repeat orgsC$222k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 210 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
1

Total granted

C$2.3M
C$400

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
-24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$222k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • BC
    BREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$347k · revenue +156%
  • CD
    CALGARY DROP-IN AND REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$229k · revenue +45%
  • TK
    THE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$191k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UD
    UNITY & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · C$400 · revenue -24%

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
Northumberland County Foodbanks

Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities

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2
Stittsville Food Bank

Food bank

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3
Canning Area Food Bank

Provide food to families in need

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4
Weymouth Area Food Bank

Provides food for people in need

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5
Elgin Food Bank

Collecting and dispersing food for local residents

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6
Bashaw & District Food Bank

The bashaw food bank provides nutritional grocery hampers to individuals and families in our local area as needed. we provide support supplies and volunteers as needed to our local k-12 school for brekafast and snack programs and to our…

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7
Thunder Bay Food Bank Inc

Food distribution service to those who can't adequately provide for their own nutritional needs

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8
Hope Community Services

Operates local food bank provides support and assistance to struggling members of community via government funded programs.

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9
Lighthouse Food Bank Society

Food bank

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10
Burks Falls and District Food Bank

Provide food and personal products to members of the community who are dealing with food insecurity. we are purely a volunteer organization.

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11
Kensington and Area Food Bank

Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)

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12
North Bay Food Bank Inc.

Assist low income families and individuals with food and other supplies.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society and the most unlike its peers is Les Oeuvres de Galilée. 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

260 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. 260 of the 262 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)
89
Early backer (in before they grew)
255/260
Grantees still filing
201/260
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 budgetSAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA — C$394,163 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$347,334 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN AND REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$228,836 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$191,434 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$178,136 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$161,589 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$159,721 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetY.E.S.S. YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY OF EDMONTON — C$91,228 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS FOUNDATION OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$79,300 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$78,297 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$64,555 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WINNIPEG — C$43,764 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDANS LA RUE — C$34,083 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAMILTON — C$33,271 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$32,816 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARMÉE DU SALUT RIVE-SUD — C$26,739 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$25,626 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSTATHCONA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — C$13,201 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THOMPSON INC. — C$12,615 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$11,426 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$10,854 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, COWICHAN VALLEY (WARM — C$10,690 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SUMMERSIDE INC — C$9,120 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSASKATOON FOOD BANK INCORPORATED — C$8,485 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OF PEEL — C$7,351 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHALTON FOOD FOR THOUGHT — C$6,465 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDMONTON CITY CENTRE CHURCH CORPORATION — C$6,357 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE D'ACTION BÉNÉVOLE DU BAS RICHELIEU INC. — C$5,531 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH ROOTS URBAN FARMS SOCIETY (LUNCH LABS) — C$5,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS — C$4,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE — C$4,715 over 6y, 0.0% of budget360KIDS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$4,542 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME HALL MISSION — C$4,348 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$3,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE NATIONS — C$3,845 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUELPH FOOD BANK — C$3,591 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — C$3,510 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH ALIVE INC — C$3,340 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYREACH CARE SOCIETY — C$3,207 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK (1992) ASSOCIATION — C$3,072 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OF WETASKIWIN — C$3,039 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DURHAM — C$2,959 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKLAND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,905 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK INC. — C$2,862 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANNE DU JOUR — C$2,787 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CORNWALL/SDG - CLUB GARCONS ET FILLES — C$2,783 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST ALBERT COMMUNITY VILLAGE AND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,696 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) — C$2,693 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Boys and Girls Clubs …Food Banks Canada/Ban…Food Banks Alberta As…Jays Care FoundationPresident's Choice Ch…Club des petits déjeu…Food Banks British Co…Ontario Association o…Boston Pizza Foundati…The Western Communiti…Boys and Girls Clubs …Food Banks of Saskatc…
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du CanadaON39.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canada · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Food Banks Alberta Association · Jays Care Foundation · President's Choice Children's Charity-La Fondation Pour Les la Fondation Pour Les Enfants le Choix Du Président · Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada · Food Banks British Columbia · Ontario Association of Food Banks · Boston Pizza Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada Foundation Fondation Les Repaires Jeunesse Du Canada · Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporation

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 262 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 2021-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2022) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 819044769:2021-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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