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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

Mersynergy Charitable Foundation

Foundation solicited donations and distributed funds to a number of charitable organizations.

C$367k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$232k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$130k
C$30,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$272k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$130,000
TEAMWORK CHILDREN'S SERVICES INTERNATIONALC$41,500
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIPC$35,000
THE WORKING CENTREC$35,000
MENNONITE WORLD CONFERENCEC$30,000
LYNC HOUSINGC$30,000
BEYOND HOUSINGC$30,000
MEDAC$20,000
RESEARCH IN AGINGC$10,000
FOOD BANKC$5,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$3.5M). The 12% that went abroad (C$489k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$489k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.9M · 37 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
47

Total granted

C$2.9M
C$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+18%

Still filing today

92%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • CG
    CONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE/U OF WATERLOO
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$571k · revenue +20%
  • M
    MEDA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$397k · revenue +68%
  • MH
    MENNO HOMES
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$215k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • AC
    ABUNDANCE CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500k · revenue +68%
  • CG
    CONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE/U OF WATERLOO
    one grant, 2021 · C$58k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO
    one grant, 2021 · C$40k

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
Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Inc.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Manitoba supports the international relief development and peace…

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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
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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4
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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5
Renison University College

Renison University College is a college teaching in the arts and social sciences affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Renison offers courses in the departments of Social Development Studies and Culture and Language studies. We offer…

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6
Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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7
United College

United college is affiliated with the university of waterloo ( uw). it's program include residential accomodation for undergraduate and graduate students and teaching religious studies international development indigenous studies…

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8
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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9
Mennonite Central Committee (Mcc) British Columbia

Forwards funds to Mennonite Central Committee Canada to support international relief. Warehouse collects and ships clothing/blankets/food/medical supplies to Mennonite Central Committee Canada for forwarding to other countries. Partners…

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10
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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11
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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12
Mennonite Central Committee (Saskatchewan)

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Saskatchewan supports the international relief development and peace…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mennonite Central Committee Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Teamwork Children's Services International. 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

52 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. 52 of the 86 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE/U OF WATERLOO — C$570,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetABUNDANCE CANADA — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDA — C$397,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMENNO HOMES — C$215,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTEAMWORK CITY OF HOPE — C$210,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROCKWAY MENNONITE COLLEGIATE — C$130,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FDN — C$126,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF WATERLOO — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORKING CENTRE — C$115,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRECEPTION HOUSE — C$90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCoalition For Refugees — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD WITNESS — C$60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMennonite World Conference — C$60,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGRAND PHILHARMONIC CHOIR — C$58,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTEAMWORK CHILDREN'S SERVICES INTERNATIONAL — C$47,500 over 2y, 51% of budgetST JACOBS MENNONITE CHURCH — C$45,200 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWOOLWICH COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$43,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMENNONITE CHURCH CANADA — C$42,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHALOM COUNSELLING — C$42,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLYNC HOUSING — C$30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetKIDS ABILITY — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOOLWICH COUNSELLING SERVICES — C$25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE INITIATIVES — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGALILLEE FDN — C$20,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetWELCOME INN — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENNONITE STORY — C$20,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetWILDRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTER ARTS MATRIX — C$14,200 over 1y, 16% of budgetMAISON D'AMITE — C$14,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT PLOUGHSARES — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWATERLOO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESEARCH IN AGING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKW HUMANE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStrong Start — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROCKWAY MENNONITE CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF WATERLOO — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSHILL MENNONITE CHURCH — C$8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDrayton Entertainment — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENNO SINGERS — C$2,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTheatre of the Beat — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORS IN EXILE - PIE — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity - Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp McGovern — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHopeSpring Cancer Support Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOOLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — C$1,000 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.

  • Who funds CONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE/U OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds ABUNDANCE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MEDA ↗
  • Who funds MENNO HOMES ↗
  • Who funds TEAMWORK CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ROCKWAY MENNONITE COLLEGIATE ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FDN ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds RECEPTION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Coalition For Refugees ↗
  • Who funds CHILD WITNESS ↗
  • Who funds Mennonite World Conference ↗
  • Who funds GRAND PHILHARMONIC CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds TEAMWORK CHILDREN'S SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ST JACOBS MENNONITE CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds WOOLWICH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MENNONITE CHURCH CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM COUNSELLING ↗
  • Who funds LYNC HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ABILITY ↗
  • Who funds WOOLWICH COUNSELLING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds GALILLEE FDN ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME INN ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Waterloo Region Commu…Wallenstein Feed Char…Abundance CanadaUnited Way Waterloo R…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Waterloo North Mennon…Cambridge & North Dum…The Jim and Lorna Bla…Shantz Mennonite Chur…Erb Street Mennonite …Floradale Mennonite C…The May Court Club of…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON23.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · Abundance Canada · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Waterloo North Mennonite Church · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation · Shantz Mennonite Church · Erb Street Mennonite Church · Floradale Mennonite Church Inc. · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo

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 86 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 136380557:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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