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Richmond, ON · Charitable organization

The Excellence in Literacy Foundation

The mandate of THE EXCELLENCE IN LITERACY FOUNDATION (elf) is to support sustainable effective and ethical children's literacy programs.

C$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$437k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BCC$4,000
THE LEACOCK FOUNDATIONC$2,000
THYRAMUS CORPORATION APPIN RDC$2,000
RIPPLE FOUNDATIONC$2,000
INVESTING IN CHILDREN INCC$2,000
OTTAWA NETWORK FOR EDUCATIONC$2,000
EDWARD MILNEC$2,000
BRILA YOUTH PROJECTSC$2,000
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$113k
British Columbia
C$53k
Quebec
C$43k
Alberta
C$36k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$11k
Prince Edward Island
C$11k
New Brunswick
C$7k
Manitoba
C$2k

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$202k · 23 repeat orgsC$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
55

Total granted

C$202k
C$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

96%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$22k · revenue +96%
  • PQ
    PINECREST QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$21k · revenue +20%
  • EM
    EDWARD MILNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$18k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DS
    DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +21%
  • SA
    Spruce Avenue School
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k
  • MW
    Mount Waddington Family Literacy Societygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +232%

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
Learning Disabilities Association of Windsor-Essex County

Comprehensive services include information and referral access to a lending library social skills development for children and youth literacy and math tutoring technology training engaging summer camps transition planning recreational…

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2
One to One Literacy Society

One to one offers unique children's literacy programs that supports children to develop their literacy skills and confidence. since 1989 they have provided one-to-one tutoring to children in elementary schools during regular school hours.…

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3
The Literacy Group of Waterloo Region

Provide literacy and essential skills upgrading to adults 16+ years of age. instruction is provided on a 1-to-1 basis as well as in small groups in-person classes and on-line focus programs- workplace skills education training training…

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4
Wellington County Learning Centre

Our charity's programs advance education by providing literacy instruction and essential skills training to youth and adults. We offer free learner centered programming designed to improve reading writing numeracy digital literacy and…

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5
My Neighbourhood Services

New settlement program (nsp) ontario early years english as a second language (linc) language instruction classes youth outreach groups workshops & advocacy and tutoring programs/summer camp youth wellness hub black youth action program

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6
The Writer's Exchance Society

The Writers' Exchange is a community that supports under-resourced kids and youth to build their confidence and get excited about reading writing and their ownpotential. Kids ages 5 - 18 work with volunteer mentors to boost their reading…

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7
Youth Centre for Sports Development

Youth centre for sports development (operating as mlse launchpad) operates as a place where youth facing barriers use sport to recognize and reach their potential. our programs combine sport and youth development programing through…

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8
Youth Employment Services Yes

Employment & career counselling/ job & training placements/job search training/ employment readiness training help with resumes cover letters/ employment follow-up/ summer jobs programs - youth job connections employment services…

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9
Community Adult Learning Centre

Essential learning skills manitoba curriculum stages 1-3 computer literacy ged english second language read to me program ages 2-5

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10
The Reading Partnership

The reading partnership's mission is to create and deliver literacy-focused programs that empower children in their early years to become successful at all stages of life. program offerings prioritize black indigenous and racialized…

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11
Centre for Family Literacy Society of Alberta

As a literacy leader in Canada we provide a continuum of services that enable individuals and families to participate at any stage of literacy development. We develop and deliver family literacy and adult literacy programs in the Alberta…

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12
Learning Disabilities Association of York-Simcoe

The organization has various programs for individuals at different ages. for children there are summer camps stem minds corp. discovery club march break camps and pa day workshops soar mindful transitions elementary social skills program…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Thyramas Corporation. 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

72 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. 72 of the 79 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
60/72
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 budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BC — C$22,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINECREST QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$20,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD MILNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetBRILA YOUTH PROJECTS — C$17,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetOttawa Network for Education — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVALLUM SOCIETY OF ARTS & LETTERS — C$12,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHYRAMUS CORPORATION APPIN RD — C$10,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetRIPPLE FOUNDATIONRIPPLE FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetApplegrove Community Complex — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCloser to Home Community Services — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentre Debat — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCanLearn Society — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTING IN CHILDREN INC — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFURTHER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH GREY BRUCE YOUTH LITERACY COUNCIL — C$6,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSTRONG START — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIMMONS LEARNING CENTRE — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLEADING WORD EDUCATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetACTION READ GUELPH — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMilitary Family Resource Centre — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBGC ST-JOHN'S BUCKMASTER — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGANDER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$3,375 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Waddington Family Literacy Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKENNEDY HOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC. — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMALI CENTRE FOR FAMILY SERVICE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlternative Learning Styles and Outlooks — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetImmigrant Services Calgary — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARREFOUR COMMUNAUTAIRE SAINT PAUL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH EAST OTTAWA COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Alberni Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLDAPR — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLady Ballers Camp — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOSER TO HOME — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Achievers Community Services — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVanier Community Service Centre — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Services Bureau — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBGC ST-JOHN'S BUCKMASTER — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMilitary Family Resource Centre — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStory Studio Writing Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRichmond Youth Services Agency — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

TELUS Friendly Future…President's Choice Ch…Kids Up Front Foundat…Kids Up Front Foundat…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Calgary Learns Associ…The Burns Memorial Fu…Click-Contributing to…Td Friends of the Env…Mazon CanadaCanada Post Community…The Home Depot Canada…
TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur MeilleurBC11.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · President's Choice Children's Charity-La Fondation Pour Les la Fondation Pour Les Enfants le Choix Du Président · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Calgary Learns Association · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Mazon Canada · Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada

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 79 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 863717385:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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