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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Shad Canada

Live in residence education program with a steam based focus for grade 10 and 11 high school students.

C$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$800
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$800
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERSC$500
KAMLOOPS FOOD POLICY COUNCILC$100
02Your 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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Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
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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4
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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5
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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6
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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7
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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8
Health Sciences North Research Institute

Hsnri is focused on contributing to sustainable solutions for health challenges faced by ontario's northern and indigenous communities. our research priority areas are: 1. cancer solutions 2. cardiovascular health 3. healty aging 4.…

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9
Ontario Headwaters Institute

Research & education; public & organizational engagement

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10
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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11
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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12
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Adas Israel Congregation of Hamilton. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
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 budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$759 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE ASSET DEVELOPMENT — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSEY CENTRE FOR WOMEN — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO-WELLINGTON SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR — C$250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLET'S TALK SCIENCE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS CHILD AND FAMILY CARING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdas Israel Congregation — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE WATERLOO REGION — C$103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO 4-H COUNCIL — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD POLICY COUNCIL — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLisaard House — C$100 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.

Charitable Gift Funds…United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Region Commu…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Victoria Foundati…United Way Maritimes/…Shoppers Foundation f…Abundance CanadaBenefAction FoundationUnited Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …Toronto Foundation
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON8.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Victoria Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Abundance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Toronto 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 20 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 2024-10-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 118830025:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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