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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

The Fregin Family Foundation

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C$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$80k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$4.1M
C$80,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUANTUM VALLEY IDEAS LABORATORIESC$1,800,000
SALAAMA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$1,780,612
SEE YOU IN CANADIAN ATHLETEs FUNDC$475,050
ST.DAVID'S HIGH SCHOOLC$80,000
THE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO REGIONC$12,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$6,000
OPERATION SMILE CANADAC$2,500
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$24M · 14 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

C$24M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+22%

Still filing today

86%
89%

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

  • QV
    QUANTUM VALLEY IDEAS LABORATORIES
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$6.0M · revenue +394% · 50% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO REGION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$130k · revenue +137%
  • WR
    WATERLOO REGION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$79k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k · revenue +29%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k · revenue +127%
  • OS
    ONTARIO SCIENC CENTRE
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k

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 Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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2
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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3
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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4
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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5
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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6
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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7
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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8
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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9
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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10
Proximity Institute

Proximity Institute formerly known as The Change Foundation is an independent charitable organization that was created via an endowment from the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). Through Proximity’s charitable purpose to promote support…

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11
Women's College Hospital Foundation

Women's college hospital foundation raises funds to support the building equipment research and education needs of women's college hospital ontario's first and only independent academic ambulatory care hospital with a primary focus on…

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12
Ivey Business School Foundation

Ivey Business School Foundation operates facilities to support educational programs and research for the Ivey Business School and Western University. Facilities are maintained in two Ontario locations: London and Toronto. The Foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Community Foundation of Waterloo Region Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Driven 2 Smile - the Community Inclusion Program. 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

28 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. 28 of the 32 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
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 budgetSalaama Educational Foundation — C$12,722,439 over 8y, 100% of budgetQUANTUM VALLEY IDEAS LABORATORIES — C$6,000,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$1,450,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL — C$500,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$78,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$74,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWINDSOR GOODFELLOWS CLUB — C$53,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWATERLOO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$51,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON INC. — C$32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOSPICE OF WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY INC. — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$24,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE CHARTITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$23,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSOR GOODFELLOWS CLUB — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHANOVER AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCARMELITE SISTERS OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS CARE ONCOLOGY CENTRAL WEST ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTAGE ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE CANADA — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSEY CENTRE FOR WOMEN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNIB — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WATERLOO REGION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRIVEN 2 SMILE - THE COMMUNITY INCLUSION PROGRAM — C$1,000 over 1y, 8.1% 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…Abundance CanadaThe Lyle Shantz Hallm…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way Waterloo R…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Ontario Power Generat…Strategic Charitable …Aqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Private Giving Founda…Canada Gives
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives

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 32 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 2024-07-31, 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 804560050:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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