Burlington, ON · Charitable organization
The Gift of Giving Back
THE GIFT OF GIVING BACK community food drive is the largest food drive of its kind in canada supporting six member agencies in the halton region.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$17k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR LIFE | C$17,000 |
| BURLINGTON FOOD BANK | C$17,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | C$11,900 |
| KERR STREET MISSION | C$11,475 |
| COMPASSION SOCIETY | C$10,540 |
| HALTON WOMENS PLACE | C$7,863 |
| CARPENTER HOSPICE | C$2,975 |
| ROCK | C$2,083 |
| HALTON CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | C$2,082 |
| HALTON LEARNING FOUNDATION | C$2,082 |
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 — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- FFFOOD FOR LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · C$67k · revenue +395%
- BFBURLINGTON FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · C$59k · revenue +20%
- SASALVATION ARMY4× · 2020–2024 · C$54k · revenue +292%
Funded once
- BFBurlington Food Bankone grant, 2019 · C$20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · C$6k
- PWPARTNERSHIP WEST/ BURLINGTON FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · C$5k
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.
We address the issue of child hunger through the delivery of student nutrition programs in partnership with 152 schools in the halton region. we offer healthy foods in snack and meal programs in a universally accessible non-stigmatizing…
The organization provides healthy food to elementary school students from at-risk low-income or disadvantaged homes with limited or no food during weekend periods.
Neighbour to neighbour centre (hamilton) runs a number of programs with the purpose to alleviate and prevent poverty by supporting neighbours at risk: [i] - the hamilton community food centre (hcfc) is a welcoming and safe community space…
To provide healthy food for children aged 4-14 years with limited or no food weekends or during the summer months.
Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…
The gift of giving back community food drive is the largest food drive of its kind in canada supporting six member agencies in the halton region. we have recently expanded to include two additional cities welcoming oakville and brampton…
Our mission is to relieve poverty by providing food heating supplies & other basic necessities for people who are of low income & in need. We operate two food banks a food distribution hub a Community Cooks meal program & Heat Bank…
The Huron County Food Bank Distribution Centre (HCFBDC)’s purpose is to source and supply food and hygiene products for distribution to the food banks and aid agencies that we serve in Huron and Perth Counties. We also run a monthly Mobile…
Emergency food procurement. solicitation and distribution of food obtained from the community and from the food industry. food is distributed to local food banks hot meal programs and child nutrition programs.
In 2024 the Haileybury Food Bank operated a community Food Bank for the Haileybury Lorrain Township and Firstbrook Township area. The Food Bank is open from 10am to 12 noon every Thursday for low income residents to obtain food and other…
Distress centre halton provides a free 24-hhour phone support including support for crisis intervention telecheck line (an outbound program available to anyone of any age in need of a prearranged supportive call) and volunteer support to…
Stabilizing First is a 1 year program aimed at moving homeless single parent-led families from homelessness to housed. This program works to stabilize the families by connecting them to all the resources they may need to be successful.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Society of Halton and the most unlike its peers is Reach Out Centre for Kids. 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 18 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 FOOD FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HALTON WOMENS PLACE ↗
- Who funds KERR STREET MISSION ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds ROCK ↗
- Who funds HALTON LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALTON CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Rotary Club of Burlington-Lakeshore Trust Fund · Burlington Community Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Rotary Club of Burlington North Foundation Inc. · The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto
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.