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Mount Albert, ON · Private foundation

The Alva Foundation

The foundation has a mandate to receive funds and contributions from individuals and organizations without public appeal and to contribute those funds at the discretion of the board of directors to charitable organizations and institutions in canada that serve the areas of children in need and families at risk.

C$553k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$303k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$250k
C$30,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$50,000
EASTSIDE FAMILY PLACEC$50,000
REFOREST LONDONC$50,000
WOMEN HOSTELS INCORPORATEDC$50,000
FOODSHARE TORONTOC$50,000
TYENDINAGA TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARDC$30,000
HASTINGS & PRINCE EDWARD LEARNING FOUNDATIONC$30,000
CREATIVE AND NATURAL OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE INC.C$30,000
SUCCESSIONC$30,000
THE CENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$30,000
CAMP QUALITY CANADAC$30,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF QUINTEC$30,000
THE REDWOOD FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN FLEEING ABUSEC$28,000
HEART BEATS CHILDREN SOCIETY ALBERTAC$15,000
EAST WELLINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.C$10,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 29 repeat orgsC$933k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$748k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

97%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$185k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$183k · revenue +55%
  • SC
    STOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$150k · revenue +53%
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$150k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CC
    CEDAR CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue -99%
  • AH
    AEOLIAN HALL MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue -11%
  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$55k · revenue +34%

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
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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2
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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3
The Psychology Foundation of Canada

We advance mental health with Canadian families by empowering them with coping mechanisms and the tools to thrive amidst life's challenges. We accomplish this by using psychological science to develop and deliver programs and resources to…

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4
SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute

Training Research Resource for Children's Mental Health 1. Training: To provide training including seminars workshops and intensive training to practitioners in the field of children's mental health such as Psychiatry Social Work…

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5
Physical and Health Education Canada

Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) champions healthy active kids by working to ensure all children and youth have equitable access to the benefits of quality physical and health education (PHE) programming and healthy…

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6
The Sandbox Project Charity

The organization’s mandate is to bring together leading academics governments agencies charities ngo’s and industry to create a transformational environment for priority areas in child and youth health in canada. the focus is on injury…

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7
The George Hull Centre for Children and Families

The George Hull Centre for Children & Families is an accredited children's mental health centre serving children and youth from birth to age 18 and their families. The Centre provides a range of family-centred services including prevention…

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8
Policywise for Children & Families

PolicyWise for Children & Families (PolicyWise) generates knowledge by funding and conducting research and evaluation and by managing linking and analyzing data. We measure the impact of how we influence positive changes for children and…

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9
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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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
Canadian Institute of Child Health
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12
Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre

CHEO is the national capital region's pediatric health and research centre offering a wide range of services: full-service 24-hour specialized children's hospital school and preschool autism therapy provider child and youth mental health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Foundation Serving Hastings Northumberland and Prince Edward Counties and the most unlike its peers is Quinte Conservation Association. 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

63 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. 63 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
46/63
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$183,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF QUINTE — C$130,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetTHE REDWOOD — C$126,178 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$117,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSinai Health System Foundation — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$97,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCAMP QUALITY CANADA — C$97,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE HASTINGS AND PRINCE EDWARD LEARNING FOUNDATION — C$91,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCREATIVE AND NATURAL OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE INC — C$90,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$90,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSUCCESSION — C$85,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetThe P.I.N.E Project — C$80,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDr. Jay Children's Grief Centre — C$64,400 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCEDAR CENTRE — C$60,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAEOLIAN HALL MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION — C$60,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetEASTSIDE FAMILY PLACE — C$60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPINE RIVER FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFUTURE POSSIBILITIES FOR KIDS — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHREE OAKS FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBrome County Historical Society Inc. — C$50,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetDAREARTS FOUNDATION INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GATINEAU RIER — C$50,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetWOMEN HOSTELS INCORPORATED — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGANARASKA REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRECIOUS MINDS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGLOUCESTER EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARD — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetREFOREST LONDON — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJessie's, The June Callwood Centre for Young Women — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGROWING CHEFS — C$35,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS (KIP) CANADA — C$30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTYENDINAGA TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR INNOVATIVE THINKING FOR YOUTH — C$20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC PAWS OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$18,487 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSARI THERAPEUTIC RIDING — C$16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHEART BEATS CHILDREN SOCIETY ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTownshippers' Research and Cultural Foundation — C$14,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL — C$12,000 over 3y, 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.

TD Securities Underwr…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The McLean FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…Toronto FoundationCIBC Foundation / Fon…BenefAction FoundationThe Catherine and Max…The Lawson FoundationRotary Club of Bellev…Rotary Club of Toront…John M. & Bernice Par…
TD Securities Underwriting Hope FundON12.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Toronto Foundation · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · BenefAction Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The Lawson Foundation · Rotary Club of Belleville Charitable Trust · Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation · John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.

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 64 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 private foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 890915978:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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