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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

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.

C$799k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$799k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$799,082
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILMOT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTREC$799,082
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$40M · 80 repeat orgsC$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
29

Total granted

C$40M
C$729k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+19%

Still filing today

89%
62%

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%’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

  • HO
    HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$14M · revenue +110% · 38% of their budget
  • KW
    K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.8M · revenue +234%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +284% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CHATHAM OUTREACH FOR HUNGER
    one grant, 2020 · C$324k
  • PC
    PORT CARES
    one grant, 2019 · C$67k
  • WL
    WEST LINCOLN COMMUNITY CAREgraduated
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$45k · revenue +71%

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.

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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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Elgin Food Bank

Collecting and dispersing food for local residents

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3
Weymouth Area Food Bank

Provides food for people in need

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4
Harvest House Community Outreach Centre Windsor

Provide overnight accommodation for homeless. drop-in center providing meals for those in need and for shut-ins. food bank outlet

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5
Northumberland County Foodbanks

Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities

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6
Kensington and Area Food Bank

Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)

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7
Englehart & Area Food Bank

Food bank in englehart on

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8
Harvest Share Community Food Programs

Provide meal and food programs

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9
Barrie Food Bank

Provide emergency food assistance and consultation and referral to encourage self sufficiency.

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10
Clearwater and District Food Bank Society

Food bank-provide food hampers to clients in need.

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11
Hope Community Services

Operates local food bank provides support and assistance to struggling members of community via government funded programs.

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12
Arthur Food Bank

To provide a 3 day emergency food supply to clients within the arthur community

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilmot Family Resource Centre Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. 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

107 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. 107 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
88/107
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 budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$14,035,868 over 7y, 38% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$2,778,655 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$2,487,890 over 7y, 67% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICE — C$1,355,965 over 7y, 13% of budgetGUELPH FOOD BANK — C$1,296,203 over 7y, 23% of budgetRAY OF HOPE — C$1,222,747 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK — C$1,166,617 over 7y, 30% of budgetGOOD SHEPARD — C$1,158,494 over 7y, 12% of budgetREACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS — C$1,158,190 over 7y, 34% of budgetGREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$1,123,291 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetKITCHENER CHURCH OF GOD — C$995,015 over 5y, 65% of budgetWILMOT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$917,880 over 6y, 89% of budgetCHATHAM OUTREACH FOR HUNGER — C$912,553 over 5y, 25% of budgetCAMINO WELLBEING + MENTAL HEALTH — C$908,006 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetEMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH — C$416,556 over 6y, 37% of budgetY.W.C.A. — C$412,466 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE - ST. CATHERINES AND THOROLD — C$309,378 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — C$302,364 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGLENCAIRN MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH — C$252,686 over 7y, 19% of budgetPROJECT S.H.A.R.E. OF NIAGARA FALLS — C$215,811 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSIMCOE CARING CUPBOARD — C$215,381 over 4y, 88% of budgetORANGEVILLE FOOD BANK — C$210,767 over 7y, 31% of budgetWALKERTON & DISTRICT FOOD BANK — C$206,720 over 7y, 33% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES — C$196,386 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTRAVERSE INDEPENDENCE NOT-FOR-PROFIT — C$193,460 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$191,811 over 3y, 60% of budgetSANGUEN HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$186,681 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTRE: COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN ADVOCACY — C$152,944 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, BLESSED SACRAMENT — C$147,539 over 4y, 16% of budgetBENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF GRIMSBY AND DISTRICT — C$144,612 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION — C$119,891 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO — C$112,543 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetLUTHERWOOD — C$111,141 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE WEST NIAGARA — C$110,847 over 6y, 13% of budgetPORT CARES — C$108,724 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetST. MATHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$101,508 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSTIRLING MENNONITE CHURCH — C$80,819 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE CONESTOGA COLLEGE OF INSTUTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCE — C$80,471 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARGUS RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — C$77,989 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWOOLWICH COMMUNITY SERVICEA — C$75,631 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD SUPPORT COMMITTEE — C$74,273 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL MARILLAC PLACE SPECIAL WORKS — C$71,220 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetST. MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$60,625 over 4y, 17% of budgetLANGS FARM VILLAGE ASSOCIATION — C$56,668 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetK-W OPEN BIBLE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — C$56,204 over 3y, 49% of budgetFOOD FOR LIFE CANADA — C$45,958 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEST LINCOLN COMMUNITY CARE — C$44,819 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$42,662 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds GUELPH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CONFERENC ↗
  • Who funds RAY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPARD ↗
  • Who funds REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHARE ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENER CHURCH OF GOD ↗
  • Who funds WILMOT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH FOR HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds CAMINO WELLBEING + MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER PARK CHURCH OF GOD ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Y.W.C.A. ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE - ST. CATHERINES AND THOROLD ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ↗
  • Who funds GLENCAIRN MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT S.H.A.R.E. OF NIAGARA FALLS ↗
  • Who funds SIMCOE CARING CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEVILLE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WALKERTON & DISTRICT FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE INDEPENDENCE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds SANGUEN HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTRE: COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, BLESSED SACRAMENT ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF GRIMSBY AND DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERWOOD ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE WEST NIAGARA ↗

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.

Ontario Association o…Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Food Banks Canada/Ban…The Cowan FoundationSocial Venture Partne…The Roman Catholic Ep…Greater Hamilton Food…Trinity United ChurchAstley Family Foundat…Cambridge & North Dum…
Ontario Association of Food BanksON32.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ontario Association of Food Banks · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · The Cowan Foundation · Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · Greater Hamilton Food Share · Trinity United Church · Astley Family Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 119233310:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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