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Guelph, ON · Public foundation

The Guelph Community Foundation

THE GUELPH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
180
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 180 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k148 grants · C$580k
  • C$10k–50k30 grants · C$495k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$125k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF GUELPH AND WELLINGTONC$65,904
WYNDHAM HOUSEC$58,925
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION WATERLOO WELLINGTONC$46,250
LIVING LAKES CANADAC$40,000
LAKESIDE HOPE HOUSEC$28,500
GUELPH NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITIONC$24,700
UNITED WAY GUELPH WELLINGTON DUFFERINC$22,337
THE FOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITALC$21,530
HOSPICE WELLINGTONC$20,802
RARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVEC$20,000
KINDLE COMMUNITIES ORGANIZATIONC$18,273
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI AFFAIRS & DEVELOPMENTC$16,750
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$16,530
ED VIDEO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE (ED VIDEO INC)C$15,000
EDEN MILLS WRITERS' FESTIVALC$15,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.0M · 214 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

214 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

214
98

Total granted

C$9.0M
C$963k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

95%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$217k 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

  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION WATERLOO WELLINGTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +32%
  • GN
    GUELPH NEIGHTBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$469k · revenue +65%
  • CF
    Children's Foundation of Guelph Wellington
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$404k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SC
    Soit Conservation Council of Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$294k · revenue +119%
  • TO
    TOWN OF MINTOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +268%
  • V
    VARIOUS
    one grant, 2019 · C$53k

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
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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3
Reach for the Rainbow Ontario

Reach for the rainbow (REACH) is a regional navigation system and accessibility partner to 36 programs and 70 sites in Ontario. We help our program delivery partners remove physical barriers to participants' inclusion in recreational…

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4
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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5
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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6
Waterloo Region Family Network

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…

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7
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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8
Hamilton Association for Residential & Recreational Redevelopment Programs

HARRRP runs community centres in Hamilton, ON that provide free programs and services to neighborhood residents. They are community hubs where people meet in structured and casual ways to engage in educational, artistic, recreational,…

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9
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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10
Ymca of Greater Toronto

The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…

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11
Self-Help Resource Centre of Greater Toronto

1) Peer Support Facilitator Training-Intro & Advanced: a training program for members of the community wishing to gain the skills of peer facilitation to create & sustain peer support groups that bring positive, transformative change to…

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12
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Aid Society of the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington and the most unlike its peers is Eden Mills Eramosa River Conservation Association. 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

332 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. 332 of the 355 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)
76
Early backer (in before they grew)
320/332
Grantees still filing
216/332
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION WATERLOO WELLINGTON — C$1,063,597 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetKindle Communities Organization — C$831,929 over 3y, 35% of budgetGUELPH NEIGHTBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITION — C$469,127 over 8y, 13% of budgetChildren's Foundation of Guelph Wellington — C$403,595 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetWyndham House — C$336,818 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetGuelph Community Health Centre — C$287,261 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE WELLINGTON — C$249,507 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetStepping Stones — C$143,804 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWELLINGTON CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$132,540 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE HOPE HOUSE — C$131,768 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetGuelph Black Heritage Society — C$125,710 over 6y, 57% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI AFFAIRS & DEVELOPMENT — C$118,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHELLDALE FAMILY GATEWAY — C$114,656 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCompass Community Services — C$109,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS CENTRE WELLINGTON — C$95,638 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetUpper Grand Learning Foundation — C$92,156 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHOMEWOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$92,034 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUnited way Guelph wetungton Dutferin — C$86,316 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGuelph Humane Society — C$86,265 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetEd Video Media Arts Centre (Ed Video Inc) — C$83,158 over 7y, 17% of budgetCHALMERS COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTERE OF THE UNITED — C$82,247 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetRoyal City Mission — C$77,085 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetHARCOURT MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$77,010 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetRare Charitable Research Reserve — C$75,150 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGUELPH ARTS COUNCIL — C$73,933 over 8y, 13% of budgetFood4Kids Guelph — C$68,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetART GALLERY OF GUELPH — C$62,798 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWest Village Community Development Co-operative Inc — C$62,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetGuelph Film Festival — C$59,094 over 2y, 66% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING GUELPH WELLINGTON — C$55,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE THERAPEUTIC RIDING & LEARNING CENTRE — C$54,783 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Wellington County — C$54,028 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGrand River Conservation Foundation — C$53,700 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetHopewell Children'S Homes Inc. — C$52,811 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHouse of Friendship — C$52,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA-YWCA Guelph — C$51,398 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$49,323 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMiChael House — C$47,748 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetELORA ROAD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (ELORA HOUSE) — C$46,716 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNiagara Health Foundation — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIgnatius Jesuit Centre — C$44,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHIV/AIDS RESOURCES & COMMUNITY HEALTH (ARCH) — C$41,880 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetART NOT SHAME — C$41,365 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Mississauga FOOd Bank — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetART GALLERY OF GUELPH — C$39,250 over 3y, 11% of budgetChild Witness Centre — C$37,630 over 6y, 0.9% 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 CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION WATERLOO WELLINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Kindle Communities Organization ↗
  • Who funds GUELPH NEIGHTBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Foundation of Guelph Wellington ↗
  • Who funds Wyndham House ↗
  • Who funds Soit Conservation Council of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Guelph Community Health Centre ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE WELLINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stones ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds LAKESIDE HOPE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Guelph Black Heritage Society ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI AFFAIRS & DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds SHELLDALE FAMILY GATEWAY ↗
  • Who funds Compass Community Services ↗
  • Who funds TOWN OF MINTO ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS CENTRE WELLINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Upper Grand Learning Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds United way Guelph wetungton Dutferin ↗
  • Who funds Guelph Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Ed Video Media Arts Centre (Ed Video Inc) ↗
  • Who funds CHALMERS COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTERE OF THE UNITED ↗
  • Who funds Royal City Mission ↗
  • Who funds HARCOURT MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Rare Charitable Research Reserve ↗
  • Who funds GUELPH ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Food4Kids Guelph ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF GUELPH ↗
  • Who funds West Village Community Development Co-operative Inc ↗
  • Who funds Guelph Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING GUELPH WELLINGTON ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE THERAPEUTIC RIDING & LEARNING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity Wellington County ↗
  • Who funds Grand River Conservation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hopewell Children'S Homes Inc. ↗
  • Who funds House of Friendship ↗

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.

United Way Community …Rotary Club of Guelph…Rotary Club of Guelph…Waterloo Region Commu…Cambridge & North Dum…Centre Wellington Com…United Way Waterloo R…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Cowan FoundationGore Mutual Insurance…The Fergus-Elora Rota…Mowbray and Doris Sif…
United Way Community Services of Guelph and WellingtonON55.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington · Rotary Club of Guelph Trillium Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Guelph South Charitable Foundation Inc. · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Centre Wellington Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · The Fergus-Elora Rotary Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family 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 355 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 867278350:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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