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Cambridge, ON · Charitable organization

Silver Star Society

C$21k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,800
Median grant
1
Regions reached
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Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMBRIDGE SELF HELP FOOD BANKC$3,500
HOSPICE WATERLOO REGIONC$2,000
LANGSC$2,000
OAK BRIDGE ACADEMYC$1,800
CAMBRIDGE PREGNANCY CENTREC$1,800
WATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTION COUNCILC$1,800
COPING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUPC$1,800
TRINITY COMMUNITY TABLEC$1,800
ARGUS RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLEC$1,800
LISAARD HOUSEC$1,800
KIDS ABILITYC$500
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$82k · 15 repeat orgsC$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

C$82k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-16%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • LF
    LANGS FARM VILLIAGE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$17k · revenue +30%
  • LH
    LISAARD HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$8k · revenue +81%
  • CP
    CAMBRIDGE PREGNANCY CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$7k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CM
    CAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +57%
  • KA
    KIDS ABILITY
    one grant, 2019 · C$900 · revenue -16%
  • MO
    Meals on Wheels
    one grant, 2017 · C$650

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
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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2
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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3
Community Living Cambridge

At Community Living Cambridge we partner with individuals who have developmental disabilities and their community to live fulfilling lives. We do so by operating 26 group homes and apartments through independent living supports in the…

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4
Aids Committee of Cambridge Kitchener-Waterloo & Area

Provision of health promotion disease prevention harm reduction therapeutic support and advocacy services to people infected and/or affected by HIV and/or AIDS.

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5
Cambridge Kiwanis Foundation

Kiwanis childrens choir cambridge food bank soar food program sunrise therapeutic riding program argus youth program kick ability trinity community table

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6
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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7
Cambridge Memorial Hospital Staff Donation Fund

The charity receive funds through financial contributions from employees physicians and midwives at cambridge memorial hospital. these funds are disbursed to charitable organizations and individuals in need within communities and regions…

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8
The Bridge Hospice

The Bridge Hospice is a 3 bed tranquil intimate home away from home where people facing end of life and their families receive exceptional care guidance and support from professional care providers and compassionate volunteers. The hospice…

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9
Canadian Innovative Community Services Alliance

Donation for Trillium Health Foundation

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10
Cambridge Memorial Hospital

Community hospital providing acute patient care to a growing community.

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11
Wellspring London and Region

Wellspring london and region provides supportive cancer care programs and services free of charge to people with a cancer diagnosis as well as their caregivers.

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12
Chatham Kent Hospice Inc.

The organization operates a 10 bed residential hospice program and offers grief and bereavement support in a home-like setting where people in end of life transition and those who love and support them have access to outstanding care.

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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 Oak Bridge Academy. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
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 budgetLANGS FARM VILLIAGE ASSOCIATION — C$17,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLISAARD HOUSE — C$7,919 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PREGNANCY CENTRE — C$7,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOPING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP — C$7,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTION COUNCIL — C$7,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF HELP FOOD BANK — C$6,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARGUS RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — C$5,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CAN PLAY — C$4,150 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS ABILITY — C$3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COMMUNITY TABLE — C$2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SERVICE DOGS — C$2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOAK BRIDGE ACADEMY — C$2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE WATERLOO REGION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE FIREFIGHTERS BASKET — C$1,900 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetKIDS ABILITY — C$900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Army Toy Store — C$650 over 1y, 0.6% 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 LANGS FARM VILLIAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LISAARD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE PREGNANCY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds COPING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO REGION SUICIDE PREVENTION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE SELF HELP FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ARGUS RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds KIDS CAN PLAY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ABILITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds OAK BRIDGE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE WATERLOO REGION ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE FIREFIGHTERS BASKET ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ABILITY ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army Toy Store ↗

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…United Way Waterloo R…Cambridge & North Dum…Unity Centre of Pract…The Cowan FoundationSt Lukes Anglican Chu…Trillium United ChurchThe Ross and Doris Di…The May Court Club of…River Dali FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…The Roman Catholic Ep…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON18.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Unity Centre of Practical Christianity · The Cowan Foundation · St Lukes Anglican Church · Trillium United Church · The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · River Dali Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario

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 22 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 2023-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Source object 119150233:2023-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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