Kitchener, ON · Public foundation
The Catholic Community Foundation Of Waterloo Region
The charity promotes the advancement of the catholic community by providing financial support to worthwhile programs and projects particularly those of a catholic educational nature.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under C$10k14 grants · C$48k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Waterloo Catholic District School Board | C$58,655 |
| Waterloo Catholic District School Board | C$11,500 |
| Magnificent Ministries | C$7,500 |
| Canadian National Institute for the Blind | C$6,304 |
| Holy Family Roman Catholic Church | C$6,000 |
| Strong Start Charitable Organization | C$5,000 |
| RARE Charitable Research Reverse | C$4,000 |
| Cambridge Right to Life | C$3,300 |
| Food4Kids Waterloo Region | C$3,200 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish | C$2,256 |
| St. Joseph's Church | C$2,240 |
| Lutherwood Foundation | C$2,150 |
| Send'em Off Smiling | C$1,710 |
| St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church | C$1,621 |
| St. Marry of The Visitation Parish | C$1,474 |
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.
Issuance of scholarships to waterloo region students
The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.
Operation of a school board in Ontario (JK-12)
The charity promotes the advancement of the catholic community by providing financial support to worthwhile programs and projects particularly those of a catholic educational nature.
Food4kids waterloo region provides healthy food packages to children ages 1-14 from severe food insecure homes during weekends and school breaks when kids are not in school and unable to access school nutrition programs.
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…
Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo
The food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. these organizations…
The purposes of the organization are: 1. To deliver environmental programs and services including household and community action designed to promote: a) sustainable resource use renewable energy energy efficiency b) clean air water soil c)…
The charity is primary a grant making organization which supports heritage initiatives in waterloo region. its primary purpose is to preserve and financially assist in the preservation of heritage landmarks historical buildings and other…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Community Foundation of Waterloo Region Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Right to Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
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 Waterloo Catholic District School Board ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish ↗
- Who funds Canadian National Institute for the Blind ↗
- Who funds Holy Family Roman Catholic Church ↗
- Who funds Strong Start Charitable Organization ↗
- Who funds RARE Charitable Research Reverse ↗
- Who funds Cambridge Right to Life ↗
- Who funds Food4Kids Waterloo Region ↗
- Who funds Lutherwood Foundation ↗
- Who funds Send'em Off Smiling ↗
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: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.