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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Counselling Foundation of Canada

The counselling foudnation of canada is established to create and enrich counselling programs and improve the technical skills of career counsellors.

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$388k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$963k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.9M
C$40,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CERICC$1,941,050
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RESLIENCE FUNDC$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADAC$125,000
ANNAUMAKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$100,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGC$100,000
FURNITURE BANKC$65,000
VOLUNTEER CANADAC$60,375
YOUTH EMPOWERING PARENTSC$60,000
OPERATION COME HOMEC$52,500
WATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAININGC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER TORONTOC$50,000
ANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$50,000
NATIVE FISHING ASSOCIATIONC$45,001
IMAGINE CANADAC$40,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$18M). The 17% that went abroad (C$3.5M) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$16M
Quebec
C$349k
Alberta
C$347k
British Columbia
C$205k
Manitoba
C$176k
New Brunswick
C$117k
Nova Scotia
C$64k
Nunavut
C$25k
Northwest Territories
C$25k

Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$3.5M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$18M · 43 repeat orgsC$3.4M 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 +3% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
62

Total granted

C$18M
C$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

91%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • C
    CERIC
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$8.3M · revenue +53% · 71% of their budget
  • IT
    INUIT TAPIRITIT KANATAMI
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +113%
  • NY
    NORTHERN YOUTH ABROAD
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$998k · revenue +69% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • C(
    CECRIC (Note 4)
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.1M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$143k
  • II
    International Institute for Child Rights & Development
    one grant, 2017 · C$103k

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
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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2
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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3
Venture for Canada Fellowship Institute

Venture for Canada is a charity that recruits trains and supports youth to work at startups with the mission of fostering entrepreneurship and education. The organization organizes training camps provides ongoing training/support over…

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4
Canadian Career Development Foundation/Fondation Canadienne Pour L'avancement De La Carrire

Ccdf works to strengthen the field of career development through evidence-based research competency-based training of career practitioners/educators the development of innovative new approaches to service delivery and the promotion of…

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5
Global Indigenous Development Trust

Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…

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6
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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7
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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8
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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9
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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10
Actua

Actua's mandate is to support deliver and advocate for the engagement of youth in stem programming that builds their confidence and skills. actua's network of member organizations focuses on reaching youth from under-served communities…

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11
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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12
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Arab Institute/Institut Canado-Arabe and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

61 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. 61 of the 109 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCERIC — C$8,309,427 over 6y, 71% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA — C$1,260,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINUIT TAPIRITIT KANATAMI — C$1,085,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHERN YOUTH ABROAD — C$997,725 over 4y, 56% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$401,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$382,150 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetINDIGENOUS PEOPLES RESLIENCE FUND — C$303,750 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$301,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetACADEMOS CYBERMENTORAT — C$257,100 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetFOR YOUTH INITIATIVE — C$241,054 over 4y, 25% of budgetPEOPLE FOR EDUCATION — C$240,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetJANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$225,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFUSION JEUNESSE — C$205,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetANNAUMAKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$203,150 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING — C$200,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetFURNITURE BANK — C$199,095 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$178,150 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCAREER TREK INC. — C$176,123 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$160,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION — C$160,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$132,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANADA — C$120,750 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNEW CIRLCES COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$120,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — C$117,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH — C$116,890 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERING PARENTS — C$111,041 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$106,260 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$102,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOSPITALITY WORKERS TRAINING CENTRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA — C$68,835 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CANADA — C$60,026 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEPILEPSY TORONTO — C$55,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetULNOOWEG FINANCIAL EDUCATION CENTRE — C$54,222 over 2y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — C$42,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY FORUM — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN ARAB INSTITUTE — C$33,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetANNAUMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEVERDALE ORGANIC FARM & ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTRE — C$22,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetARCHWAY COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHUSWAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST NATIONS' EMERGENCY SERVICES — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CERIC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds INUIT TAPIRITIT KANATAMI ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN YOUTH ABROAD ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RESLIENCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMOS CYBERMENTORAT ↗
  • Who funds FOR YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds FUSION JEUNESSE ↗
  • Who funds ANNAUMAKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds TEACH FOR CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CAREER TREK INC. ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds ANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NEW CIRLCES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERING PARENTS ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION COME HOME ↗

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.

The J W McConnell Fam…Toronto FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…Laidlaw FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Suncor Energy Foundat…The Lawson FoundationThe Sprott FoundationRideau Hall Foundatio…Definity Insurance Fo…The Catherine Donnell…The Muttart Foundation
The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnellQC17.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Toronto Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Laidlaw Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · The Lawson Foundation · The Sprott Foundation · Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hall · Definity Insurance Foundation / La Fondation Definity Assurance · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The Muttart 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 109 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 108079229:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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