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Oakville, ON · Private foundation

Meaningful Work Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to maintain a fund and make donations to charitable organizations that are also registered charities.

C$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$4,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO YOUTH FOR CHRISTC$4,500
Faith Baptist Church of St. ThomasC$2,450
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$79k · 4 repeat orgsC$162k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

C$79k
C$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’24
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

  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$20k · revenue +3%
  • WM
    WINDMILL MICROLENDING
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$20k · revenue +221%
  • HS
    Home Suite Hope Shared Living Corp.
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$20k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • RT
    Raising the Roof Chez Toitgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +125%
  • WF
    Weston Frontlines Centregraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +254%
  • L
    LIVEWORKPLAYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +67%

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
Working for Change

Working for Change provides education and employment opportunities for people disadvantages by mental illness addiction poverty homelessness gender violence and immigration experiences through social enterprises and leadership training…

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2
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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3
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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4
The Career Foundation

The organization provides employment services across Ontario to people who are in need and facing barriers to employment. On going services include career exploration employment counselling job search training and job placements for at…

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5
In the Works - a Social Enterprise Network

In the Works' experiential work program integrates a holistic trauma informed and effective pre-employment framework while participants complete hands-on work experience across a variety of sectors. Participants will complete 'In the…

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6
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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7
Onestp-Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Project

1) sustainable livlihoods training program - pre-employment support for women facing barriers to entering the workplace 2) culture connect training program - coaching program for building more inclusive workplaces

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8
Pathways Employment Help Centre

Employment preparation services - job seekers learn to develop resumes prepare for interviews and rediscover the confidence needed to enter or re-enter the workforce. skills training - participants in our skills training programs are…

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9
Trades Guild

Trades Guild proposes to help meet labor demand by getting low income and unemployed Calgarians at-risk of homelessness 'work ready.' In order to help meet industry demand return people to work and in some cases help people enter the labor…

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10
Ywca Hamilton

Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…

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11
The Canadian Council On Rehabilitation and Work

1. Employment Services (New Brunswick) maintains partnerships with the business community various levels of government agencies/organizations and partners in education and skills development in order to best support job seekers with…

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12
Business in the Streets

The organization's mission is to help high-risk and street youth learn hands-on entrepreneurial skills.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Yonge Street Mission and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
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 budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHome Suite Hope Shared Living Corp. — C$19,534 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS CANADA — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRaising the Roof Chez Toit — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWeston Frontlines Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIVEWORKPLAY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAfrica Community Technical Service Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFurniture Bank — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLil E Coffee Cafe (Calgary) — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetIRIS MINISTRIES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Bridge from Prison to Community (Hamilton) — C$8,270 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLoving Arms Charitable Organization — C$8,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJake's House for Autistic Children — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Council for Aboriginal Business — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Citizens' Foundation Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Yonge Street Mission — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOptions Mississauga Print and Office Services — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIGHT UP THE WORLD — C$2,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFaith Baptist Church of St. Thomas — C$2,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$1,480 over 1y, 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.

The Peter Gilgan Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Ontario Realtors Care…The Charis FoundationOakville Community Fo…Toronto FoundationThe Home Depot Canada…Youth and Philanthrop…The J W McConnell Fam…Raymond James Canada …Canada GivesCanadian National Chr…
The Peter Gilgan FoundationON8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Peter Gilgan Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · The Charis Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · Canadian National Christian 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 23 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 2024-07-31, 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 767780711:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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