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Collingwood, ON · Private foundation

The Fairmount Foundation

The charitable activity of the foundation is to make gifts to other registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$335k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$650k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$1.3M
C$250,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE HOME CHARITY SOCIETYC$335,000
THE WORKING CENTREC$250,000
EQUALITY FUNDC$250,000
UNICEF CANADAC$250,000
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$250,000
CAMINO WELLBEINGC$200,000
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIPC$200,000
RECEPTION HOUSEC$150,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF WATERLOOC$100,000
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.6M · 15 repeat orgsC$1.9M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

C$8.6M
C$856k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.0M 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

  • U
    UNICEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.0M · revenue +129%
  • HC
    HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +68%
  • RH
    RECEPTION HOUSE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$755k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF WATERLOO REGION
    one grant, 2020 · C$102k · revenue +14%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S GENRAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue 0%
  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue +29%

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
Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation

The charity is primary a grant making organization which supports heritage initiatives in waterloo region. its primary purpose is to preserve and financially assist in the preservation of heritage landmarks historical buildings and other…

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2
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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3
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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4
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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5
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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6
Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation

Rotary Waterloo provides funds for charities in Kitchener/Waterloo area and other charities including: - healthcare - physically & developmentally challenged children - literacy - food security We also contribute to Rotary International…

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7
Waterloo Regional Cardiac Rehabilitation Foundation Inc
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8
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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9
United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington

United way guelph wellington dufferin strives to meet existing and emerging social needs in order in improve lives and build community. we do this by facilitating continued engagement on community issues through ongoing communications with…

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10
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

The food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. these organizations…

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11
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery connecting people and ideas through art with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations the Gallery collects preserves researches…

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12
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Memorial Hospital. 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

35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
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 budgetUNICEF — C$2,000,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$1,750,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetRECEPTION HOUSE — C$755,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES — C$680,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetKITCHENER-WATERLOO COUNSELLING SERVICES INCORPORATED — C$610,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetThe university of Western Ontario — C$600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF WATERLOO — C$500,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetMUSLIM SOCIETY OF GUELPH — C$400,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCambridge Memorial Hospital — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLE HOME CHARITY SOCIETY — C$335,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetEQUALITY FUND — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WORKING CENTRE — C$250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMENNO HOMES — C$200,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCAMINO WELLBEING — C$200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChild Witness Centre of Waterloo Region — C$150,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF WATERLOO REGION — C$101,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST MARY'S GENRAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetKitchener Waterloo Community — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES OF WATERLOO REGION — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEmmanuel United Church — C$60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAGAINST MALARIA — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWATERLOO REGION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$40,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetKITCHENER-WATERLOO YMCA — C$35,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBEAUTIFUL WORLD CANADA FDN — C$30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWaterloo Utheran Seminary — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$24,888 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWATERLOO REGION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF WATERLOO REGION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$6,221 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestbound Gold and Country — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$550 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…United Way Waterloo R…Abundance CanadaCambridge & North Dum…The Cowan FoundationAstley Family Foundat…The Guelph Community …Gore Mutual Insurance…Kitchener-Conestoga R…Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction Foundation
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON18.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Abundance Canada · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · Astley Family Foundation · The Guelph Community Foundation · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction 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 35 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 809960644:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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