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Kitchener, ON · Public foundation

Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundation

To raise funds through annual events for children's charities

C$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$35k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$48k
C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS ABILITY CENTRE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENTC$20,000
WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$15,000
WATERLOO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$13,178
MINE CENTRE SCHOOL RAINY RIVERY SCHOOL BOARDC$6,000
MEDAC$5,000
ADOPT A VILLAGE IN LAOSC$3,000
SEND EM OFF SMILINGC$3,000
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL POLIO PLUSC$2,500
WATERLOO REGION TRACT 3C$2,500
CENTRAL ONTARIO DEVELOPMENTAL RIDING PROGRAMMEC$2,500
WATERLOO CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCC$2,000
FOOD 4 KIDS WATERLOO REGIONC$2,000
CHILDRENS NEEDS DISTRIBUTION CENTREC$1,522
BRAIN INJURY OF WATERLOO WELLINGTONC$1,500
WATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTIONC$1,300
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$601k · 20 repeat orgsC$61k 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 +5% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

C$601k
C$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • K
    KIDSABILITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$245k · revenue +106%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$26k · revenue +7%
  • M
    MEDA
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$19k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CW
    CHILD WITNESS CENTRE
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue +5%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF ANCASTER
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k
  • SE
    SEND EM OFF SMILING
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k

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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Junior Achievement of Waterloo Region Foundation
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2
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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3
Waterloo Regional Crime Stoppers
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4
Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation

Rotary Waterloo provides funds for charities in Kitchener/Waterloo area and other charities including: - healthcare - physically & developmentally challenged children - literacy - food security We also contribute to Rotary International…

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5
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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6
Leadership Waterloo Region

Leadership waterloo region is an educational program for future leaders in waterloo region. the program is designed to identify and nurture potential leaders to develop a network of people who can work to solve community problems and to…

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7
Waterloo Catholic District School Board

Operation of a school board in Ontario (JK-12)

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8
Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region

Bep provides the following: -career talks in local schools -student conferences -career expos -mentorship projects -youth microgrants -experiential learning for grade 11 and 12 students.

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9
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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10
Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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11
The Children's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington

The Children's Foundation provides financial assistance through various programs for children and youth so that they can experience parts of childhood that many of us take for granted. These programs include student nutrition programs…

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12
Junior Achievement of the Waterloo Region Inc.

Public education awards and scholarships economics for success business of our own dollars with sense company program

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterloo Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Monica House. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDSABILITY — C$245,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetWATERLOO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — C$136,378 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetCHILD WITNESS CENTRE — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$25,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDA — C$19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ONTARIO DEVELOPMENTAL RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$18,800 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSEND'EM OFF SMILING — C$17,770 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetNUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$17,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMINE CENTRE SCHOOL RAINY RIVERY SCHOOL BOARD — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO REGION TRACK 3 — C$15,400 over 5y, 12% of budgetKW WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED ST. JOHNS KITCHEN — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$13,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONICA'S PLACE — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetADOPT A VILLAGE IN LAOS — C$9,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCANADIAN CLAY AND GLASS GALLERY — C$4,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF ANCASTER — C$4,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS WATERLOO REGION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGION DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS WITH PAWS — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMY TRIBUTE GIFT — C$50 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.

  • Who funds KIDSABILITY ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD WITNESS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ONTARIO DEVELOPMENTAL RIDING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SEND'EM OFF SMILING ↗
  • Who funds NUTRITION FOR LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds MINE CENTRE SCHOOL RAINY RIVERY SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO REGION TRACK 3 ↗
  • Who funds KW WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED ST. JOHNS KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO REGION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONICA'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT A VILLAGE IN LAOS ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CLAY AND GLASS GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD 4 KIDS WATERLOO REGION ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO REGION DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS WITH PAWS ↗
  • Who funds MY TRIBUTE GIFT ↗

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…Cambridge & North Dum…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…United Way Waterloo R…Kitchener-Conestoga R…The May Court Club of…Wallenstein Feed Char…The Cowan FoundationThe Ross and Doris Di…Social Venture Partne…Emmanuel United ChurchMersynergy Charitable…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON16.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation · Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region · Emmanuel United Church · Mersynergy Charitable 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 37 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 138203971:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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