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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Royal Canadian Legion Kitchener Waterloo Poppy Fund

Support of canadian and some allied veterans and their spouses.

C$118k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$33k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$85k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITALC$29,714
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-DISTRICT C YOUTH EDUCATION FUNDC$20,000
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-ONTARIO COMMAND POPPY FUNDC$20,000
GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
FREEPORT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION-GRAND RIVER HOSPITALC$6,500
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
VETERANS TRANSITION NETWORKC$5,000
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-ONTARIO COMMAND HOMELESS VETERANSC$5,000
DISTRICT C ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-VETERANS HOSPITAL FUNDC$5,000
1596-RHFC RCACC ARMY CADETSC$2,200
530 HAVOC SQUADRONC$2,200
THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-ROYAL COMMONWEALTH EX-SERVICEMENSC$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$488k · 7 repeat orgsC$79k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

C$488k
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
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

  • FH
    FREEPORT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION - GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$156k · revenue +162%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$107k · revenue +238%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-DISTRICT C YOUTH EDUCATION FUND
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$103k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION - PARKWOOD INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · C$24k
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k
  • TR
    THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION ONTARIO PROVINCIAL COMMAND - HOME
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k

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
The Air Cadet League of Canada 899 Vanderhoof Sponsoring Committee

Support for the local air cadets squadron and activities they participate in.

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2
The Royal Canadian Legion District 'a' Hospital Trust Fund

Provides for the comfort and treatment of veterans in the veterans section and westing counties wing of parkwood hospital sunny brook hospital and london psychiatric dist. or any verterans affairs sponsored beds in district 'a'

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3
Royal Canadian Legion Kitchener Waterloo Poppy Fund

Support of canadian and some allied veterans and their spouses. military personnel and bursaries for veteran's families and cadets. support of local hospitals.

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4
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation

The foundation is principally involved in raising funds for the benefit of orillias soldiers' memorial hospital. the foundation raises funds for medical equipment and technology infrastructure upgrades and expansions and education and…

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5
The Foundation of the Air Cadet League of Canada
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6
746 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Sponsor Committee

746 lightning hawks royal canadian air cadet's program has aims of promoting leadership citizenship and physical fitness while stimulating an interest in the air activities of the canadian forces. they are able to participate in a variety…

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7
Air Cadet League of Canada 692 Squadron Sponsoring Committee

Through the air cadet program our squadron provides youths the greatest opportunities to develop their leadership skills confidence independence self-discipline and instructional techniques on a large scale which are applicable in the real…

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8
Army Cadet League Foundation of Ontario

The primary purpose of the foundation is to support the royal canadian army cadets in ontario and in particular to support the army cadet league of canada (ontario). for this purpose the foundation will solicit contributions in order to…

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9
Air Cadet League of Canada 907 Squadron Sponsoring Committee

Support the squadron in the delivery of programs such as community parades band effective speaking flying leadership skills survival skills and physical fitness; support with rental of a space to run our cadet program training equipment…

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10
Ornge

Ornge operates from a number of bases across the province. It coordinates all aspects of Ontario's aero medical transport system the critical care land transport program and the screening of inter-facility transfers of patients within the…

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11
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Foundation

Fundraising for the general fund and the foundation's scholarship program. support to military veterans and those still serving including members of the cadet league of canada. volunteers spent many hours throughout the year fundraising…

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12
Navy League of Ontario Foundation

To issue grants to other registered charities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Transition Network. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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 budgetFREEPORT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION - GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL — C$155,974 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$106,914 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-DISTRICT C YOUTH EDUCATION FUND — C$102,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION - PARKWOOD INSTITUTE — C$80,479 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT C ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-VETERANS HOSPITAL FUND — C$15,000 over 5y, 36% of budget80 K-W SPITFIRE AIR CADET SQUADRON SPONSORING COMMITTEE — C$15,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS 530 KIWANIS SQUADRON (530 HAVOC SQ — C$12,200 over 3y, 41% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN ADAPTIVE SNOWSPORTS NATIONAL CAPITAL DIVISION — C$300 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 Royal Canadian Le…R C L Last Post (Onta…Raymond James Canada …BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
The Royal Canadian Legion Preston (Ont. No. 126) Branch Poppy FundON10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Royal Canadian Legion Preston (Ont. No. 126) Branch Poppy Fund · R C L Last Post (Ontario #410) Branch-Poppy Trust Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 17 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 889106688:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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