Waterloo, ON · Private foundation
The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund
The organization distributes funds to charitable organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k14 grants · C$41k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP | C$14,000 |
| KIDSABILITY FOUNDAION | C$6,000 |
| YMCA MARY'S PLACE | C$4,000 |
| ANSELMA HOUSE | C$4,000 |
| GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL | C$3,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION | C$3,500 |
| INNISFREE HOUSE | C$3,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WATERLOO REGION | C$3,000 |
| CAMINO WELLBEING & MENTAL HEALTH | C$2,000 |
| ST. MARY'S CHURCH- TINY HOME PROJECT | C$2,000 |
| LELLANI'S HOPE | C$2,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE FARM INC. | C$2,000 |
| INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTRE | C$2,000 |
| HOPE SPRING CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE | C$2,000 |
| CAMP QUALITY CANADA | C$2,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- HOHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · C$81k · revenue +174%
- IHInnisfree House6× · 2019–2024 · C$34k · revenue +39%
- HOHospice of Waterloo Region8× · 2017–2024 · C$26k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- KFKIDSABILITY FOUNDAIONone grant, 2024 · C$6k · revenue 0%
- TCTEEN CHALLENGE FARM INC.one grant, 2024 · C$2k
- CWCAMINO WELLBEING & MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2024 · C$2k · revenue 0%
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.
Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…
Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…
Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.
The provision of child protection services to the children youth and families of the waterloo region
The child witness centre provides support education and advocacy for children and youth who are or may become victims or witnesses of abuse or crime. our advocates at the waterloo region child and youth advocacy centre work as part of a…
Waterloo region network supports families of children youth and adults with special needs both with and without a diagnosis in waterloo region prviding resources and facilitating meaningful connections in all life stages. as a…
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…
Housing & counselling programs, Transitional housing and support programs. Counselling and support for children during transition.
Parents for Community Living (PCL) enhances the quality of life of individuals with developmental disabilities by providing services and family-like homes in our community as follows: 1) PCL provides permanent residential support for 45…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Lisaard and Innisfree Hospice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
- Who funds Innisfree House ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Waterloo Region ↗
- Who funds YMCA MARY'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds ANSELMA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Hope Spring Cancer Support Centre ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Camp Quality Canada ↗
- Who funds Independent Living Centre ↗
- Who funds Kitchener-Waterloo Counselling Services Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDSABILITY FOUNDAION ↗
- Who funds LELLANI'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds ST. MARY'S CHURCH- TINY HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAMINO WELLBEING & MENTAL HEALTH ↗
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: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Abundance Canada · Unity Centre of Practical Christianity · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation · The Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · The Cloverleaf 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.