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Oakville, ON · Public foundation

The Charis Foundation

The charity receives and maintains funds and applies all or part of the principal and interest therefrom to registered charities pursuant to the income tax (canada).

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$600
  • C$10k–50k46 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$50k–250k16 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$560k
C$30,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE YONGE STREET MISSIONC$300,000
CARDUSC$260,000
CHRISTAR CANADAC$200,000
ARROW LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIESC$200,000
INDIGENOUS PATHWAYSC$175,000
PARTNERS INTERNATIONALC$150,000
FOOD FOR HUNGRY CANADAC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADAC$100,000
MUSTARD SEED MISSION CANADA INCC$100,000
THE WELLSPRING FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONC$100,000
ELIMUC$90,000
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADAC$75,000
ASIAN OUTREACH INTERNATIONALC$75,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORSC$60,000
NEW STORYC$50,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$18M
British Columbia
C$5.8M
Quebec
C$1.2M
Alberta
C$968k
Prince Edward Island
C$610k
Manitoba
C$199k
Nova Scotia
C$96k
Saskatchewan
C$85k
New Brunswick
C$30k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$26M · 96 repeat orgsC$852k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

96 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
24

Total granted

C$26M
C$572k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+6%

Still filing today

98%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$280k 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

  • YS
    YOUNG STREET MISSION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.1M · revenue +30%
  • TC
    THE CARDUS INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +48%
  • PI
    PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue -21%
  • WV
    World Vision
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +1%
  • V
    VISONLEDD
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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2
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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3
Multiply Network

The organization operates global Christian mission programs by training and sending missionaries and church planting teams to all parts of the world. MULTIPLY Network builds the capacity of national leaders to contribute in the same ways.…

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4
Kingdom Insight Global Missions

1. Leadership Development (Zambia) KiG Missions supports the development of local Christian leaders in Zambia through workshops mentorship and leadership training. The goal is to empower pastors and community leaders with biblical…

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5
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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6
AngelOne Canada

Conducts missionary work in the developing countries

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7
Christ's Hope International- Canada

Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…

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8
Strategic Ministry Partnerships - Canada

Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing food and other necessities of life including access to education for children of families who are poor of low income or in need.

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9
International Christian Mission Services

To conduct Canadian and foreign missions providing funds for missionary efforts To prepare and train national workers for Christian service and send them out as Christian missionaries To provide assistance to people living in poverty

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10
Christian Education Ministries International

To promote Christian Education world-wide in order to help make disciples of Jesus Christ and to educate the church in North America about cultures by creating opportunities for them to interact to actively participate in meeting people's…

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11
Africa Inland Mission International (Canada)

Africa inland mission international (canada) partners with african churches and other christian ngos to support & assist the evangelical church in 15 countries of eastern & southern africa. this overall goal is accomplished through a wide…

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12
Ethnos Canada

Ethnos Canada assisted Canadian churches in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world by training and mobilizing approved missionaries and engaging in and supporting church-planting…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Needs Canada and the most unlike its peers is Indwell Community Homes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

127 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. 127 of the 129 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/127
Grantees still filing
88/127
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 budgetYOUNG STREET MISSION — C$3,125,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$2,110,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetPARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — C$1,500,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetARROW LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — C$1,492,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetTYNDALE FOUNDATION — C$975,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$882,300 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHRISTAR — C$640,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetINDIGENOUS PATHWAYS — C$610,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetWELLSPRING FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — C$609,600 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADA — C$606,200 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetMUSTARD SEED MISSION CANADA INC — C$565,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetHIPC — C$524,250 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD FOR HUNGRY CANADA — C$510,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetDEVXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS — C$472,600 over 8y, 11% of budgetELIMU — C$445,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA — C$440,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$434,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetASIAN OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL — C$416,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetMEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$400,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetEDUDEO MINISTRIES — C$365,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetINCARNATION MINISTRIES — C$325,000 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS — C$315,670 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOVING ARMS CHARITABLE CORPORATION — C$282,800 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHRIVE FOR GOOD — C$280,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHRISTIAN DIRECTION — C$265,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetRESOURCE LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL — C$262,520 over 6y, 12% of budgetSANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH — C$247,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$222,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRATANAK — C$215,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIES — C$205,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRONTIERS CANADA — C$200,400 over 6y, 20% of budgetGHANA RURAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT — C$200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCITY MOVEMENT INC — C$190,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetWORLD RENEW — C$184,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — C$180,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetKENTRO CHRISTIAN NETWORK — C$162,600 over 8y, 20% of budgetSCRIPTURE UNION — C$160,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHIMALAYAN LIFE — C$160,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE — C$157,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE STORY — C$155,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetINTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKUWASHA — C$147,400 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$147,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DUNCANAFRICA SOCIETY — C$145,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetCHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY — C$143,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH — C$136,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES — C$135,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds YOUNG STREET MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE CARDUS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ARROW LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TYNDALE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTAR ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED MISSION CANADA INC ↗
  • Who funds HIPC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR HUNGRY CANADA ↗
  • Who funds DEVXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds ELIMU ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL CANADA ↗
  • Who funds EDUDEO MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds INCARNATION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
  • Who funds LOVING ARMS CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN DIRECTION ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds RATANAK ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds GHANA RURAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds CITY MOVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RENEW ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds KENTRO CHRISTIAN NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPTURE UNION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HIMALAYAN LIFE ↗
  • Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE ↗

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.

Canadian National Chr…Bridgeway FoundationThe Foundation Office…Acts of Grace Foundat…D H Falle Family Foun…Redleaf FoundationWorld Charitable Foun…Kehila FoundationLink Charity Canada I…Blue Sea Philanthropy…The Damascus Road Fou…The Kiervin Family Fo…
Canadian National Christian FoundationON24.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canadian National Christian Foundation · Bridgeway Foundation · The Foundation Office.Ca · Acts of Grace Foundation · D H Falle Family Foundation · Redleaf Foundation · World Charitable Foundation of Canada · Kehila Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · The Damascus Road Foundation · The Kiervin Family 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.

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 129 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 foundations.

Source object 891625238:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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