Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Gear Foundation
The foundation is a granting foundation providing grants to qualified donees and non-profit organizations promoting good health animal welfare and social services in the community of milton ontario.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k7 grants · C$127k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHI GAMMA DELTA FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$105,643 |
| MILTON DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$84,514 |
| OAKVILLE & MILTON HUMANE SOCIETY | C$52,822 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH | C$52,822 |
| ONTARIO LUNG ASSOCIATION | C$21,129 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY MILTON KHI - A COMMUNITY CHUCH | C$17,748 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY ONTARIO DIVISION | C$17,748 |
| MILTON TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORP | C$17,537 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HALTON AND HAMILTON | C$17,537 |
| THE CEDARBROOK SOCIETY | C$17,537 |
| ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 136- POPPY FUND | C$17,537 |
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- PGPHI GAMMA DELTA FOUNDATION OF CANADA8× · 2017–2024 · C$672k · revenue +11% · 81% of their budget
- MDMILTON DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$540k · revenue +8%
- OMOAKVILLE & MILTON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$336k · revenue +115%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Operates hospitals providing healthcare services to the towns of oakville milton & halton hills and their surrounding communities.
One to one matches between adults and children of the same gender. Group programs for children waiting for a one to one match. In-school mentoring programs for children. School-based group programs for youth focusing on healthy active…
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
Provide grants and gifts of equipment to the oakville site of halton healthcare services corporation
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…
The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…
The charity is operating a long-term care facility in the city of oakville.
Runs the auxiliary programs for milton hospital site of h alton healthcare services corp assisting staff to provide patient care. operates fundraising activities and donates the funds to the milton site of halton healthcare services corp…
Donates funds to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the georgetown hospital site
The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…
Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph
Co-ordinate In-Home & Community Support Services, Provide information & Referrals and Long Term Care placement to the communities of South Etobicoke, Mississauga, Oakville, Milton, Georgetown and Halton hills, as well as related supplies…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton and Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is The Milton District Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PHI GAMMA DELTA FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds MILTON DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKVILLE & MILTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADA ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARBROOK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MILTON TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HALTON AND HAMILTON ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF HALTON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oakville Community Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.