Cambridge, ON · Charitable organization
The Clac Foundation
Supporting unprivileged people through training financing tools and gear in Canada and workers internationally.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
- C$10k–50k11 grants · C$275k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Organisation of Workers | C$76,957 |
| Lutherwood | C$65,000 |
| Mosaic | C$41,324 |
| Mustard Seed | C$39,656 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$30,000 |
| Action for Healthy Communities | C$29,400 |
| Project Adult Literacy Society | C$25,000 |
| New Hope Community Bikes | C$25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$20,230 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$15,896 |
| Right at Home Housing | C$15,000 |
| InterProvincial Workforce Collective | C$10,000 |
| Bissell Centre | C$4,841 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 76% of grant dollars (C$687k). The 24% that went abroad (C$215k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 24% of all-years giving (C$215k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +120% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$267k went to new ones.
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
- MSMustard Seed4× · 2017–2022 · C$80k · revenue +120%
- RARight at Home Housing Society2× · 2021–2022 · C$30k · revenue +37%
- IAInclusion Alberta2× · 2017–2018 · C$10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CRCanadian Red Crossone grant, 2021 · C$100k
- MCMosaic Centreone grant, 2022 · C$66k
- LLutherwoodgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in…
Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…
Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…
Anhart Community Housing Society is a humanitarian organization that provides supportive housing to persons of low income and/or who are at risk to homelessness because of mental and physical health concerns addictions and concurrent…
Raincity housing provides innovative specialized housing and support services for people living with mental illness addictions and other challenges. by designing programs based on research assessment evaluation and implementation of best…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
The charity provides housing and support to refugees newly arrived in the Toronto area
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Inclusio - 45 Suite fully accessible supportive living facility. - Bridge to Home - Personal supports for people with limited mobility who are exiting homelessness. - Residential Accessible Design (RAD) - Service which provides…
Mobilizing volunteers and community partners Winnipeg Habitat for Humanity works with people from all walks of life to build safe and affordable housing for purchase by low-income working families.
Provided affordable rental housing to low-income individuals and families Delivered subsidy program to assist low-income individuals and families facing temporary financial or health crisis to remain in their market rental homes and avoid…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Right At Home Housing Society and the most unlike its peers is Journalists for Human Rights (Jhr). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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.
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: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.