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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

Omers Foundation

The OMERS FOUNDATION is fully run by omers employees.

C$4k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$4,185
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUE NORTH AIDC$4,185
02Your 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.

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Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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3
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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4
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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5
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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Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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Trellis Society for Community Impact

At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…

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Housing for Youth in the City of York Corporation

The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.

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9
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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For Youth Initiative in Toronto

The organization provides programs to create and foster an inclusive environment where youth and adult representatives of the diverse community of york in the city of toronto can work in partnership to address youth needs and issues and…

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11
The Toronto Star Children's Charities

The purpose of The Toronto Star Children’s Charities is to inspire hope joy and curiosity in kids through its initiatives such as the Santa Claus Fund and the Fresh Air Fund. The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund provides grants to camp…

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Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Seeds of Hope 4 Autism. 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

27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
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 budgetFort York Food BAnk — C$30,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetISAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Jack Davis Hope Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFoodshare Toronto — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMatthew House — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for Canada — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Charity — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetStepstones for Youth — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKids Now — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetYouth and Philanthropy Initiative — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDAYTRIPPERS CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGeore Hull Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetST. STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafehaven — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOVERT INC (ONTARIO VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM) — C$10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMade by Momma — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSherbourne Health Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmici Camping Charity — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$9,185 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCORSAGE PROJECT - CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF THE DEAF — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJust Socks — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

TD Securities Underwr…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Toronto FoundationUnifor Social Justice…Jewish Foundation of …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Bickle-Wilder Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…The McLean FoundationChum Charitable Found…The Catherine and Max…Fiera Capital Foundat…
TD Securities Underwriting Hope FundON12.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The McLean Foundation · Chum Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital

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 25 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 2020-10-21, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 771694494:2020-10-21 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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