Toronto, ON · Charitable organization
Ontario Association of Food Banks
The association is a membership organization of food bank throughout ontario with a mandate to assist in meeting the immediate food needs of food bank recipients and to work towards long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$6k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minden Community Food Centre | C$21,208 |
| Wiikwemkoong Food Bank | C$5,688 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 2% of grant dollars (C$704k). The 98% that went abroad (C$37M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 98% of all-years giving (C$37M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
118 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 117 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.
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
- UHUnemployed Help Centre4× · 2017–2023 · C$151k · revenue +12%
- DBDaily Bread Food Bank4× · 2017–2023 · C$40k · revenue +315%
- MCMinden Community Food Centre4× · 2018–2023 · C$35k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- WEWINDSOR ESSEX FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · C$1.1M
- NHNorth Huron Food share2× · 2022–2024 · C$930k
- TCTrenton Care and Share Food Bank3× · 2020–2024 · C$646k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Collecting and dispersing food for local residents
Provides food for people in need
Provide food to families in need
Food distribution service to those who can't adequately provide for their own nutritional needs
Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)
Food purchase for anyone in need
Local food bank
To provide a 3 day emergency food supply to clients within the arthur community
Food bank in englehart on
Distribute food to those in need throughout the year
Relief of poverty providing food security to low income individuals and families
Provide food for the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cochrane Food Bank Inc/La Banque Alimentaire De Cochrane Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wiikwemkoong Fellowship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
117 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. 117 of the 253 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.
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
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.
Open a dossier: Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · David McAntony Gibson Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc · Greater Hamilton Food Share · Food Banks Mississauga · Mealshare Aid Foundation · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor
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.