Toronto, ON · Public foundation
Sharelife
SHARELIFE carries out fundraising campaigns in catholic parishes and schools as well as in the corporate sector.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$93k
- C$50k–250k5 grants · C$505k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO | C$11,611,458 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION FOR THE DIOCESES OF TOR | C$3,075,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE'S SEMINARY OF TORONTO | C$2,000,000 |
| CANADIAN CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE | C$125,000 |
| CANADIAN FOOD FOR CHILDREN | C$100,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINES OF CANTERBURY PARISH | C$100,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE | C$95,000 |
| REDEMPTORIS MATER SEMINARY | C$85,000 |
| RIGHT TO LIFE ASSOCIATION | C$40,000 |
| MARY'S MEALS | C$33,333 |
| DE VEBER INSTITUTE | C$20,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO8× · 2017–2024 · C$78M · revenue +28% · 96% of their budget
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION FOR THE DIOCESES OF TOR8× · 2017–2024 · C$15M · revenue ×220
- SAST. AUGUSTINE'S SEMINARY OF TORONTO8× · 2017–2024 · C$15M · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2023 · C$300k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
On behalf of the Catholic community of Toronto the Society is committed to providing social services that protect children/youth and strengthen family life. The Society provides the following programs: child protection child and family…
The University of St. Michael's College is a Catholic post-secondary educational and research institution federated with the University of Toronto. The University offers undergraduate courses in the arts and sciences through its Arts and…
Prepares and gives out food packages to homeless people in toronto
The primary purpose of this charity is the advancement of religion social outreach and pastoral/spiritual programs that address poverty isolation and lack of community and spiritual void in our cities. major areas of focus include social…
Fred Victor is a dynamic innovative rapidly growing multi-service non-denominational organization with a 130-year track record of supporting people experiencing homelessness living on very low incomes or struggling with mental health…
Apostolic works include home visitation shut-ins hospitals nursing homes promotion of the sacred heart devotions/rosary visitation of jail inmates through prison ministry teaching catechism and religious instruction to both adults and…
Catholic cemeteries & funeral services - archdiocese of toronto provides interment services to the roman catholic community.
We develop young adults to reach out to the homeless prostituted and those suffering with addictions and mental illness. We support and accompany those who would like to start a new life off the street and off drugs. We provide emotional…
Susatinable agriculture educaton health refugees livelihood support humanitarian aid defense of human rights leadership training and formation
The special mission of toronto metropolitan university is the advancement of applied knowledge and research to address societal needs and the provision of programs of study that provides a balance between theory and application that…
The toronto school of theology(tst) a consortium of 7 theological schools federated with the university of toronto plus 3 other affiliated theological schools offers a range of professional & academic theology degrees at the graduate level…
The charity provides housing and support to refugees newly arrived in the Toronto area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Toronto in Canada and the most unlike its peers is The De Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION FOR THE DIOCESES OF TOR ↗
- Who funds ST. AUGUSTINE'S SEMINARY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FOOD FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTORIS MATER SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds STREET HAVEN AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MEALS ↗
- Who funds DE VEBER INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Toronto in Canada · Knights of Columbus Ontario Charity Foundation · Toronto Council Knights of Columbus 1388 Charitable Welfare · York Catholic District School Board · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Private Giving Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift 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.