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Waterloo, ON · Public foundation

Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region

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C$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$52k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$30k
C$5,674
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$203k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO.C$10,000
COMPASS REFUGEE CENTRE INC.C$10,000
CHILDREN AND YOUTH PLANNING TABLE OF WATERLOO REGIONC$10,000
OAK BRIDGE ACADEMYC$7,041
NUTRITION FOR LEARNINGC$6,591
SHELTER MOVERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIOC$6,410
ADVENTIRE 4 CHANGEC$5,674
STRONG STARTC$5,674
WATERLOO SUICIDE PREVENTION COUNCILC$5,194
COMMUNITY HEAL THICARING KITCHENER WATERLOOC$5,150
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF WATERLOO REGIONC$5,059
SEND'EM OFF SMILINGC$5,000
A BETTER TENT CITYC$500
SEXUAL ASSUALT SUPPORT CENTREC$100
WOMEN CRISIS SERVICESC$100
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$423k · 19 repeat orgsC$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
16

Total granted

C$423k
C$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$45k 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

  • SA
    SECUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTRE OF WATERLOO REGION
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$55k · revenue +95%
  • CF
    CARIZON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$50k · revenue +86%
  • OB
    OAK BRIDGE ACADEMY
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$42k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BF
    BEREAVED FAMLIES OF ONTARIO
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue -21%
  • PC
    PORCHLIGHT COUNSELLING & ADDICTION SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +67%
  • FW
    FOOD4KIDS WATERLOO REGION
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +16%

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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Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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2
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region

The provision of child protection services to the children youth and families of the waterloo region

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3
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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4
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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5
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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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
Waterloo Regional Crime Stoppers
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8
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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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
John Howard Society of Waterloo - Wellington

Programs include various youth programs such as youth justice and bullying and prevention programs in schools. adult programs include partner assault response back on track programs and many others which follow the mandate of promoting and…

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11
The Literacy Group of Waterloo Region

Provide literacy and essential skills upgrading to adults 16+ years of age. instruction is provided on a 1-to-1 basis as well as in small groups in-person classes and on-line focus programs- workplace skills education training training…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation 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

41 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. 41 of the 44 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
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 budgetSECUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTRE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$55,038 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCARIZON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$49,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOAK BRIDGE ACADEMY — C$42,041 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD WITNESS CENTRE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$41,028 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER WATERLOO REGION — C$35,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, WATERLOO WELLINGTON — C$34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECEPTION HOUSE - WATERLOO REGION INC. — C$32,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO. — C$23,342 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPASS REFUGEE CENTRE INC. — C$20,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH OPTIONS, RESOURCES & EDUCATION CENTRE — C$20,050 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS — C$8,904 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKINBRIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$7,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$6,591 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEREAVED FAMLIES OF ONTARIO — C$6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$6,410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGION FAMILY NETWORK — C$6,396 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSAINT MONICA HOUSE — C$6,113 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTRONG START — C$5,674 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVENTIRE 4 CHANGE — C$5,674 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWATERLOO SUICIDE PREVENTION COUNCIL — C$5,194 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE INITIATIVES OF WATERLOO REGION — C$5,167 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLANGS FARM VILLAGE ASSOCIATION — C$5,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORCHLIGHT COUNSELLING & ADDICTION SERVICES — C$5,151 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEAL THICARING KITCHENER WATERLOO — C$5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF WATERLOO REGION — C$5,059 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEND'EM OFF SMILING — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFOOD4KIDS WATERLOO REGION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT CONNECTIONS — C$4,167 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAVIGATORS OF CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS CRISIS SERVICES — C$2,768 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMMINGBIRD CENTRE FOR HOPE — C$1,821 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF W — C$1,746 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANISHNABEG OUTREACH EMPLOYMENT AND TRANING INC. — C$1,546 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WATERLOO REGION — C$1,396 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE — C$1,371 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$1,229 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENER-WATERLOO EXTEND-A-FAMILY- ASSOCIATION — C$879 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE AGENCY SOUTH CENTRAL ONTARIO — C$804 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADIE'S PLACE FOR INNOVATIVE INCLUSION — C$754 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA BETTER TENT CITY — C$500 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Cambridge & North Dum…The Food Bank of Wate…The Cowan FoundationUnited Way of Kitchen…Kitchener-Conestoga R…The May Court Club of…Astley Family Foundat…Abundance CanadaTrinity United Church
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON35.3× affinity36 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 · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · The Cowan Foundation · United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · Astley Family Foundation · Abundance Canada · Trinity United Church

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 44 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under teaching institutions.

Source object 843051913:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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