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Kitchener, ON · Private foundation

Rbj Schlegel Family Foundation

The primary funding emphasis of the newly created Foundation is research in aging research in mental health/addiction and International Economic Development.

C$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$155k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$544k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.6M
C$33,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Research Institute for AgingC$1,630,902
Homewood Research InstituteC$229,000
Mennonite Economic Development AssociatesC$195,000
Conrad Grebel University COllegeC$120,000
Western UniversityC$47,500
Community Justice InitiativesC$40,000
Mennonite World ConferenceC$33,000
The Working CentreC$14,050
Mission Services of LondonC$10,000
House of FriendshipC$10,000
MennoHomes Inc.C$8,600
Hockey Helps the HomelessC$3,000
Bullying CanadaC$2,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 12 repeat orgsC$23k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+106%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • RI
    Research Institute for Aging
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$3.2M · revenue +64%
  • ME
    Mennonite Economic Development Associates
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$375k · revenue +1%
  • HR
    Homewood Research Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$339k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • GR
    G2G Rail Trailgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +106%
  • TE
    The Elora Festival
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +13%

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.

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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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2
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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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
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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5
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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6
Rbj Schlegel Family Foundation

The primary funding emphasis of the newly created Foundation is research in aging research in mental health/addiction and International Economic Development. It’s secondary funding emphasis is focused toward supporting the regions of…

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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
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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9
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights Centre Canadien du Droit au logement

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in…

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10
Supportive Housing of Waterloo

SHOW's mission is to collaboratively provide housing and a continuum of supports to those who have experienced homelessness and encountered barriers to achieving their fundamental right to safe and affordable housing. SHOW is dedicated to…

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11
King's University College At the University of Western Ontario

King's university college is an co-educational liberal arts university offering post-secondary education in several disciplines including social work humanities and social science

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12
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Friendship and the most unlike its peers is Three Centuries Festival. 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

15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
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 budgetResearch Institute for Aging — C$3,155,906 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMennonite Economic Development Associates — C$375,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHomewood Research Institute — C$339,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWestern University — C$140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConrad Grebel University COllege — C$125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Justice Initiatives — C$95,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMennonite World Conference — C$66,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetThe Working Centre — C$28,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMission Services of London — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Friendship — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMennoHomes Inc. — C$17,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetG2G Rail Trail — C$15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe Elora Festival — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBullying Canada — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHockey Helps the Homeless — C$3,000 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.

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…Mersynergy Charitable…Abundance CanadaWallenstein Feed Char…Floradale Mennonite C…Shantz Mennonite Chur…Cambridge & North Dum…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON10.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Mersynergy Charitable Foundation · Abundance Canada · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · Floradale Mennonite Church Inc. · Shantz Mennonite Church · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 15 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 716272703:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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