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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Robert Kerr Foundation

Programs to provide assistance or support to homeless persons children or youths

C$817k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$513k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$281k
C$25,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTOC$75,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$55,576
CE'AHAVTAC$50,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$50,000
JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITYC$50,000
BOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES INCC$42,000
STEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENC$35,000
ABIONA CENTRE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTHC$30,000
REGENERATION OUTREACH COMMUNITYC$30,000
MAKEAWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$30,000
PROJECT FOODCHAINC$26,000
I-THINKC$25,000
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENC$25,000
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTHC$25,000
PHILIP AZIZ CENTRE FOR HOSPICE CAREC$25,000
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.1M · 37 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
61

Total granted

C$4.1M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

95%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$378k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • JA
    JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$330k · revenue +40%
  • BI
    BUSINESS IN THE STREET
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$311k · revenue +202%
  • SL
    STEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$247k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHILPOTT CHILDREN'S TENNIS
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +18% · 26% of their budget
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS CHURCH - COMMUNITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +2%
  • BA
    BOUNDLESS ADVENTURES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k

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.

1
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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2
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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3
360KIDS Support Services

Ongoing programs: * -residential housing programs - serving youth aged 15-19 who are experiencing a housing crisis and are in need of shelter and care. * -youth drop-in center - serving youth ages 13-26 and providing a safe accessible…

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4
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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5
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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6
Toronto Youth Development

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

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7
Durham Youth Services

Durham youth services offers a variety of homelessness prevention rapid rehousing and housing stabilization supports youth aged 16-24 who are at risk of or experencing homelessness. dys prevention programs include family reconnect focussed…

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8
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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9
Turning Point Youth Services

Prepare and assist adolescents and young adults in the 12-18 age group to live independently in the community. full time residential care for adolescents under custody order under the young offenders act (ontario) operate an emergency…

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10
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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11
Neighbourhood Works Inc.

We serve children youth and their families in care with the minister of social development one co-ed youth homes ages 12 to 18 years two sibling homes ages birth to 25 years adult outreach worker for those experiencing homelessness…

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12
Community Youth Programs Inc

Community youth programs provides housing and support for adolescents aged 15 to 18 who are unable to live with a family and unprepared for independent living. there is an emphasis on school achievement and part-time paid or volunteer work…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Le Programme De Portage Relatif a La Dependance De La Drogue. 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

108 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. 108 of the 111 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
74/108
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 budgetVE'AHAVTA THE CANADIAN JEWISH HUMAN — C$403,226 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$330,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBUSINESS IN THE STREET — C$311,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — C$247,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTO — C$225,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBOUNDLESS ADVENTURES ASSOCIATION — C$200,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMLSE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTREET HEALTH COMMUNITY NURSING FOUNDATION — C$193,570 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$176,870 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESTORATION AND EMPOWERMENT FOR SOC — C$150,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetEVANGEL HALL MISSION — C$147,172 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSANCTUARY MINISTRIES OF TORONTO — C$133,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDR. JAY CHILDREN'S GREIF CENTRE — C$130,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetPHILPOTT CHILDREN'S TENNIS — C$100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY — C$100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSTREET HAVEN AT THE CROSSROAD — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPEACEBUILDERS INTERNATIONAL — C$91,900 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIXON HALL — C$81,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$80,590 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$80,576 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetABIONA CENTRE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMENTORING JUNIORS KIDS ORGANIZATION (MJKO) — C$60,130 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREGENERATION OUTREACH COMMUNITY — C$56,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALL SAINTS CHURCH - COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPSTONES FOR YOUTH — C$45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFURNITURE BANK — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMADEUSZ — C$45,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHOSPICE TORONTO — C$42,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES INC — C$42,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNA-ME-RES (NATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE) — C$40,950 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREGESH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES — C$40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIBERTY FOR YOUTH — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBRANDS FOR CANADA — C$40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF PEEL-HALTON-DUFFERIN — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBELIEVE TO ACHIEVE — C$35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSISTERING - A WOMEN'S PLACE — C$33,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHURCH OF ST STEPHEN IN THE FIELDS — C$30,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE HOUSING ONTARIO — C$30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSTORY PLANET — C$28,587 over 1y, 7.4% of budget5N2 SOUP KITCHEN PROJECT — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJACS TORONTO — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKENNEDY HOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Catherine and Max…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The George Lunan Foun…Kids Up Front Foundat…The McLean FoundationToronto FoundationRotary Club of Toront…La Fondation Emmanuel…Tippet FoundationSt. Andrew's Charitab…The Peter Gilgan Foun…The Bickle-Wilder Fou…
The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen FoundationON36.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Tippet Foundation · St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation

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 111 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 815430806:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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