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Barrie, ON · Private foundation

The Elston Charitable Foundation

C$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$38k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPICE SIMCOEC$27,500
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$10,000
BARRIE FOOD BANKC$5,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF SIMCOE COUNTYC$2,500
CONNEXUS CHURCHC$2,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$271k · 10 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

C$271k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • GP
    GROVE PARK HOME FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$107k · revenue +44%
  • HS
    HOSPICE SIMCOE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$62k · revenue +67%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Barrie & District
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$32k · revenue +223%

Funded once

  • MD
    MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$9k
  • GP
    GROVE PARK HOME FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k
  • CB
    CNIB Barrie
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +9%

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
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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2
Canadian Disability Foundation

The Canadian Disability Foundation ('CDF') is Canada’s national disability organization. Established to provide philanthropic support services and innovative social solutions CDF helps the more than 8 million disabled Canadians to be…

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3
Ms Canada Sp Canada

We provide information and community resources to those affected by multiple sclerosis (MS). We provide assistance for clients to maintain their independence within their community. We facilitate education and support group meetings. We…

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4
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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5
Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada with more than four million people living with diabetes in this country. It is a complex chronic condition that impacts a person’s health and overall life in profound ways.…

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6
Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada/ RÉAdaptation En DÉFicience Visuelle Canada

Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada ) is a not-for-profit national health care organization and the leading provider of rehabilitation therapy and health care services for individuals with vision loss across Canada. We provide training that…

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7
Alzheimer Society of Canada - Societe Alzheimer Du Canada

Assisting provincial Alzheimer Society (AS) organizations to provide information and educational materials to the public; Administering and funding the AS national peer-reviewed research grants and awards program; Creating public awareness…

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8
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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9
Fighting Blindness Canada

Fighting Blindness Canada leads the fight against blindness by advancing research in to vision loss and blindness education and public awareness. To advance vision research we fund qualified donees researchers and clinicians to investigate…

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10
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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11
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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12
Fund Homecare Canada

Fund Homecare Canada is a Canadian registered charitable not-for-profit organization dedicated to making in-home care accessible to palliative cancer patients—a critical and prevalent need that is unfortunately out of reach for many. We…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer Society of Simcoe County and the most unlike its peers is Connexus Community Church. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
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 budgetGROVE PARK HOME FOR SENIOR CITIZENS — C$106,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE SIMCOE — C$61,561 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Barrie & District — C$31,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTALK IS FREE THEATRE — C$17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBARRIE FOOD BANK — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$7,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCONNEXUS CHURCH — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF SIMCOE COUNTY — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCNIB Barrie — C$2,765 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF BARRIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMELANOMA NETWORK OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNOTTAWASAGA VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$150 over 1y, 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.

The Albarrie Foundati…Barrie Community Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Albarrie FoundationON8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albarrie Foundation · Barrie Community Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · 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.

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 18 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.

Source object 870584745:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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