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Mississauga, ON · Charitable organization

Penny Appeal Canada

Our domestic programs focus on Canadian Muslims refugees newcomers marginalized and racialized women BIPOC communities the homeless vulnerable students and families in need.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$160k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$959k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$250k
C$40,015
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Zakat FoundationC$250,000
Islamic Society of North America - Canada (ISNA - Canada)C$200,000
David McAntony Gibson Foundation (GlobalMedic)C$200,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of TorontoC$200,000
Foundation for a Path ForwardC$158,650
Ruh CorpC$150,000
Canada BasketballC$50,000
Humaniti FoundationC$40,015
Ryerson UniversityC$28,000
Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-CanadaC$25,000
Muslim Food Bank and Community Services SocietyC$20,000
The Kickback FoundationC$17,000
Let's Help Society of AlbertaC$15,000
Alberta Immigrant Women & Children CentreC$15,000
Darul Qur'an Institute of Islamic Studies SocietyC$6,500
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 — 86% of grant dollars (C$6.2M). The 14% that went abroad (C$983k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 14% of all-years giving (C$983k)

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.6M · 29 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
45

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+52%

Still filing today

93%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$241k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • IS
    Islamic Society of North America - Canada (ISNA - Canada)
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$915k · revenue +20%
  • MF
    MLSE Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · C$675k · revenue +21%
  • NZ
    National Zakat Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$360k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MC
    Muslim Council of Calgary
    one grant, 2023 · C$204k
  • CG
    Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue +230%
  • IF
    Islamic Family and Social Services Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$122k · revenue +88%

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
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada

Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…

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2
Imam ash-Shafii Centre (Isc)

The Imam ash-Shafii Centre (ISC) is committed to advancing religion and education while promoting health and providing settlement support through its comprehensive array of activities. The Centre’s primary religious activities include…

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3
Islamic Circle of North America

Provide places of worship & mediation in Canada 365 days a year. Operates full-time approved daily & weekend School up to grade 8. Provide family counseling services and seminars in education welfare volunteer work health and community.…

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4
Muslim Welfare Canada

Halal Foods and essential item banks (Scarborough Mississauga Whitby Inuvik& Iqaluit) Shelters for Women and Children Meals on Wheels Free Medical Clinic Place of Worship Welcome Kit for Refugees Backpack program Water well exploration…

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5
Islamic Waqf of Canada

Religious services charitable activities education

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6
Islamic Social Services Association Inc./ L'association Des Services Sociaux Islamiques Inc.

1. furtherance of religion of islam 2. providing training programs for muslim community leaders imams muslim and non-muslim professionals and para-professionals 3. providing consultation and meditation services to agencies dealing with…

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7
Islamic Association of Western Canada

Community services

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8
Muslim Society of Guelph

Hold worship service daily/weekly. Privately supported religious and academic education. Settlement services for new immigrants and refugees and Food bank for needy. Conflict resolution and counseling services. Immediate relief. Daycare…

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9
Al-Hedaya Islamic Centre of Northeast Calgary

Our organization is committed to serving the community through a variety of religious educational and social initiatives. We offer daily prayers weekly Friday prayers annual Eid prayers and Quran recitation classes for boys and girls. Our…

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10
Muslim Hands

Delivery of projects outside of Canada is through an affiliated Muslim Hands Organization. Together with local partners and country offices Muslim Hands is working in the world's poorest countries to tackle the root causes of poverty and…

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11
Al Azhar Academy of Canada for Educational Activities and Social Service

Islamic School Counseling Relief Program

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12
Islamic Academy of Canada

Charitable Activites

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Muslim Association and the most unlike its peers is Globalfire. 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

70 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. 70 of the 80 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
57/70
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 budgetIslamic Society of North America - Canada (ISNA - Canada) — C$914,698 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMLSE Foundation — C$675,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNational Zakat Foundation — C$360,398 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$338,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDavid McAntony Gibson Foundation (GlobalMedic) — C$315,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto — C$300,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSakeenah Homes — C$284,688 over 3y, 18% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY CANADA — C$224,479 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCharitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORATION AND EMPOWERMENT FOR SOCIAL TRANSITION CENTRE — C$163,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetFAITH FOR LIFE NETWORK — C$153,833 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFocused Dreams Forward Foundation — C$148,800 over 2y, 27% of budgetSMILE CANADA - SUPPORT SERVICES — C$142,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetIslamic Family and Social Services Association — C$121,705 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUMMAH SOCIETY — C$105,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNaseeha Youth Helpline — C$89,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetASK Foundation — C$83,625 over 1y, 29% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$82,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSLIM RESOURCE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SUPPORT AND INTEGRATION — C$75,530 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLet's Help Society of Alberta — C$71,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetKHALIL HEALTH SERVICES — C$70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHUMAN CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — C$59,390 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHumaniti Foundation — C$40,015 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARKAZ-UL-ISLAM SOCIETY OF EDMONTON — C$39,743 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMuslim Food Bank and Community Services Society — C$35,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH — C$34,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARKAZ-UL-ISLAM CONGREGATION OF FORT MCMURRARY — C$31,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSacredHand Canada — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMuslim Children's Aid and Support Services — C$30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUnion of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Immigrant Women & Children Centre — C$22,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSALAHEDDIN ISLAMIC CENTRE INC — C$21,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION — C$21,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANSAAR FOUNDATION — C$20,700 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMuslim Neighbour Nexus — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIslamic Society of Vaughan — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAl-Ghazali Centre — C$20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetDEEN Support Services — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE JASMINE HOUSE — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetACADEMY OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC SCIENCES — C$18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPICKERING ISLAMIC CENTRE — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuildford Islamic Cultural Center — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetB.C. MUSLIM ASSOCIATION — C$7,155 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDarul Qur'an Institute of Islamic Studies Society — C$6,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetOBAT Canada — C$6,047 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Islamic Relief - Ir C…Human Concern Interna…Muslim Association of…Moez & Marissa Kassam…Islamic Institute of …International Develop…Scarborough Muslim As…Faith of Life NetworkAmity Global Foundati…Jamiatul Muslemeen of…Pickering Islamic Cen…Arabian Muslim Associ…
Islamic Relief - Ir CanadaON35.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Relief - Ir Canada · Human Concern International (Hci) · Muslim Association of Canada · Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation · Islamic Institute of Toronto · International Development and Relief Foundation · Scarborough Muslim Association · Faith of Life Network · Amity Global Foundation · Jamiatul Muslemeen of Ottawa-Carleton · Pickering Islamic Centre · Arabian Muslim Association

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 80 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 charitable organization under supportive health care.

Source object 827502741:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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