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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

The Gwd Foundation for Kids

To provide gifts to charitable organizations that are also registerd charities that support the education health development and betterment of children youth and their families.

C$3.6M
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
1
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$3.4M
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BURLINGTON FOUNDATIONC$3,423,318
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CITYKIDZC$50,000
FOOD4KIDS HALTONC$25,000
ARTHOUSEC$10,000
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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$483k · 6 repeat orgsC$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

C$483k
C$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • HH
    HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$125k · revenue +69%
  • AF
    ArtHouse For Children and Youth
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$85k · revenue +28%
  • CY
    CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$60k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • PC
    Proaction Cops & Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +67%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Haltongraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$14k · revenue +40%
  • BF
    BURLINGTON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +20%

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
FOOD4KIDS Hamilton

To provide healthy food for children aged 4-14 years with limited or no food weekends or during the summer months.

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2
Halton Food for Thought

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…

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3
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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4
Junior Achievement of Central Ontario

Here at JA Central Ontario we envision a world in which young people have the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities. We want to make sure all young people are economically empowered with the skills confidence and networks to…

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5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kawartha Lakes-Haliburton Inc.

Traditional one to one mentoring programs that is community-based. screened adult volunteer mentors are matched with a child (6-16 years of age) and visit for 3-4 hours a week. couple mentoring programs is a community-based programs that…

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6
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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7
Hamilton Child and Family Supports

Hamilton Child and Family Supports in partnership with families and our community is committed to the safety protection and well-being of children and the strengthening of families while valuing diversity and promoting equity.

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8
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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9
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. we have recently expanded to include two additional cities welcoming oakville and brampton…

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10
Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids
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11
Children's Aid Foundation of Halton

The foundation provides funding to the children's aid society of the regional municipality of halton for programs that benefit their children in care. these programs include summer camps educational activities and after school programs.…

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12
FOOD4KIDS Ontario

To provide healthy food for children from low income or disadvantaged homes with healthy food impacting their physical emotional and academic development.

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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 Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/Conseil De Direction De L'armÉE Du Salut Du Canada. 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

15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBURLINGTON FOUNDATION — C$3,423,318 over 1y, 62% of budgetCITY KIDZ — C$140,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArtHouse For Children and Youth — C$85,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HALTON — C$43,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHalton Learning Foundation — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetProaction Cops & Kids — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Halton — C$14,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBURLINGTON FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNELSON YOUTH CENTRES — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Halton — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREACH OUT CENTRES FOR KIDS — C$7,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetReach Out Centres for Kids — C$7,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way Golden Hor…Oakville Community Fo…Burlington Community …JTC Heersink Foundati…United Way of OakvilleCIBC Foundation / Fon…The May Court Club of…The Rotary Club of Bu…The Rotary Club of Bu…Hamilton Community Fo…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
United Way Golden HorseshoeON13× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Golden Horseshoe · Oakville Community Foundation · Burlington Community Foundation · JTC Heersink Foundation · United Way of Oakville · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · The May Court Club of Oakville · The Rotary Club of Burlington-Lakeshore Trust Fund · The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · Hamilton Community Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 15 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 861840395:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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