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Etobicoke, ON · Private foundation

The Firstline Foundation

We established a fund from donations received from donors.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$290k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$150k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$975k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$290k
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNICEFC$290,000
United Nations World Food ProgramC$175,000
UHNCRC$150,000
The Michael J. Fox FoundationC$150,000
MS CanadaC$150,000
Action Against HungerC$100,000
The Charitree FoundationC$100,000
BackPack BuddiesC$50,000
International Conservation Fund of CanadaC$50,000
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of CanadaC$50,000
Life Water CanadaC$35,000
Canadian Foodgrains BankC$30,000
Trans Canada TrailC$25,000
Bruce Trail ConservancyC$25,000
Wilderness CommitteeC$25,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$3.9M). The 12% that went abroad (C$505k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$505k)

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 16 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+20%

Still filing today

81%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$695k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UN
    United Nations Canada
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +14%
  • TC
    The Charitree Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$249k · revenue +941% · 98% of their budget
  • AA
    Action Against Hunger
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$195k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CF
    Canadian Feed the Children
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -1%
  • LG
    Lions Gate Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +4%
  • SH
    Second Harvest Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +66%

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
The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour La Conservation De La Nature

As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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4
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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5
Oceana Canada

Oceana canada is an independent charity dedicated solely to ocean conservation. oceana canada works with civil society academics fishers indigenous peoples and the federal government to return canada's formerly vibrant oceans to health and…

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6
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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7
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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8
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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9
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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10
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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11
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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12
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action contre la faim Acf (Canada) / Action against hunger Acf (Canada) and the most unlike its peers is Community First Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 45 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
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 budgetUnited Nations Canada — C$1,032,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCanada Red Cross — C$385,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charitree Foundation — C$249,000 over 6y, 98% of budgetAction Against Hunger — C$195,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDoctors without Borders — C$154,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J. Fox Foundation — C$150,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMS Canada — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLife Water Canada — C$147,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCanadian Feed the Children — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLions Gate Hospital — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumanitarian Coalition — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBackPack Buddies — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAction Against Hunger — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Conservation Fund of Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Box Canada — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMoisson Montreal — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreakfast Club of Canada — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBruce Trail Conservancy — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrans Canada Trail — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWilderness Committee — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Friends of Fresh and Green Academy — C$25,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetCalgary Drop-In Centre — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFred Victor — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defence Canada Inc — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArctic Children and Youth Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPacific Wild Alliance — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetToronto Humane Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStreet Health — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOceans North Conservation Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Paul's Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm Radio International — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Eyesight Universal — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation (Canada) — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Makeway FoundationAirlie FoundationCanada GivesPrivate Giving Founda…The Calgary FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Abundance CanadaBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Link Charity Canada I…Raymond James Canada …The Victoria Foundati…
Makeway FoundationBC9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · Airlie Foundation · Canada Gives · Private Giving Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Victoria 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 45 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 722365285:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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