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Mississauga, ON · Private foundation

The Heather Sheehan Foundation

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$150k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.4M
C$250,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAR CHILD CANADAC$1,139,946
HARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONALC$250,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCEC$100,000
THE COMPASSC$50,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.2M · 3 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

C$5.2M
C$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$250k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • WC
    WAR CHILD CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$4.7M · revenue +12%
  • VO
    VISIONS OF SCIENCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$300k · revenue +106%
  • TC
    THE COMPASS
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$194k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CY
    CHOICES YOUTH SHELTER
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.5M · revenue -67% · 77% of their budget
  • HF
    HOSPICE FREDERICTON
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -2%
  • SC
    SILVER CREEK CENTRE FOR EARLY LEARNING & DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +47%

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
New Path Youth & Family Counselling Services of Simcoe County

Across all our locations a full range of assessment and counselling services are provided by a team of professional counsellors that support children and youth their families and caregivers with their mental health. This includes…

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2
Children's Treatment Network of Simcoe York

Children's Treatment Network (CTN) supports children and youth with disabilities and developmental needs in their homes communities and schools. CTN provides programs and services including intake service navigation coordinated service…

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3
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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4
The York Centre for Children, Youth & Families

The York Centre provides a range of treatment and intervention mental health related services for children, youth, and families who live in York Region. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team based upon a comprehensive approach…

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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
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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7
Sickkids Centre for Community Mental Health

Children's mental health prevention/early intervention services treatment training and research including: 1. Prevention-To prevent mental health problems from occurring through parent education and community outreach . 2. Early…

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8
Everymind Mental Health Services

EveryMind Mental Health Services provides a continuum of high quality mental health services for children youth and families who are experiencing or may experience serious emotional difficulties. Services are provided using a variety of…

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9
Youth Centre for Change

The objectives of the Centres are to provide youth support services including family assistance education and residential care. In addition to develop and enhance community awareness of the problems experienced by the aforementioned group…

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10
Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres

Training opportunities-trains employment service providers who comprise our publicly funded workforce development sector in ontario -research-researches evidence-led approaches for equitable employment to inform policy decisions -advocacy-…

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11
Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency

Youth without shelter is a 53 bed residence for homeless youth aged 16-24. in addition to shelter and food the following services are provided: mental health counselling life skills training employment services personal clothing and…

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12
Halton Industry Education Council

The Ontario Career Lab: As an innovation center for excellence in career awareness and career development programming for young people The Ontario Career Lab provides workshops events and resources that empower youth to explore various…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choices Shelter and Support Services and the most unlike its peers is Harvest Outreach International Inc.. 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

9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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 budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$4,689,946 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetCHOICES YOUTH SHELTER — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE — C$300,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetHARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL — C$250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE COMPASS — C$194,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHOSPICE FREDERICTON — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSILVER CREEK CENTRE FOR EARLY LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTHDALE TREATMENT CENTRES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIPARTNER INDIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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.

BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Charitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
BenefAction FoundationON6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 9 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 789706470:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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