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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation

Funding primarily mennonite organizations in the kw region.

C$296k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$58k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$58k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$180k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMBRIDGE SHELTERC$114,500
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIPC$65,000
ROCKWAY MENNONITE COLLEGIATEC$16,000
SILVER LAKE MENNONITE CAMPC$15,000
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CANADAC$15,000
CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$12,000
SHALOM COUNSELLING SERVICES INCC$9,000
BEYOND HOUSINGC$9,000
FIDAC$6,000
KW ACCESSABILITYC$5,000
KIDS ABILITY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
BOOKCLUB FOR INMATESC$5,000
MENNONITE WORLD CONFERENCEC$4,000
CAMBRIDGE FOOD BANKC$4,000
THE WORKING CENTREC$3,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 26 repeat orgsC$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
6

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-27%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k 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

  • CS
    CAMBRIDGE SHELTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$681k · revenue +91%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$320k · revenue +174%
  • CG
    CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$252k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • KY
    K-W YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +4%
  • MC
    MENNONITE COALITION FOR REFUGEE SUPPORT
    one grant, 2020 · C$4k
  • MR
    MUSLIM RESOURCE CENTRE
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k

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
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

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…

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2
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

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…

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3
Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Inc.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a global non-profit organization that strives to share God's love and compassion through relief development and peacebuilding. MCC Manitoba supports the international relief development and peace…

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4
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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5
Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region

Community mediation and dialogue services sexual harm services youth and adult serious crime dialogue Stride services supporting incarcerated women family dialogues elder dialogue and support services. Homesharing Justice Centre - creating…

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6
Kitchener-Waterloo Counselling Services Incorporated
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7
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

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…

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8
Renison University College

Renison University College is a college teaching in the arts and social sciences affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Renison offers courses in the departments of Social Development Studies and Culture and Language studies. We offer…

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9
Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health

Children's Mental Health Programs including Section 23 School FASD Treatment Program Trauma Treatment Intensive Community Services Early Intervention School Based Programs Respite Learning Assessments and Resources. Individual Couple…

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10
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

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.

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11
Lutheran Homes Kitchener-Waterloo

Provide and operate non-profit residential accommodation and incidental facilities there to exclusive for: 1) person with low income 2) senior citizen of low/modest income and who have varying degree of special needs 3) disabled person of…

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12
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mennonite Central Committee Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Dacapo Chamber Choir 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

32 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. 32 of the 35 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE SHELTER — C$681,100 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$320,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$252,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetRockway Mennonite Collegiate — C$217,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMCC (ONTARIO) — C$180,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$106,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSILVER LAKE MENNONITE CAMP — C$105,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCHILD WITNESS CENTRE — C$100,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetKIDS ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Crisis Services of Waterloo Region — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMENNO HOMES KITCHENER INC — C$70,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSHALOM COUNSELLING SERVICES INC — C$56,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetROCKWAY MENNONITE CHURCH — C$51,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetHIDDEN ACRES MENNONITE CAMP — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDA — C$38,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBOOKCLUB FOR INMATES — C$35,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetMENNONITE WORLD CONFERENCE — C$34,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS REFUGEE CENTRE — C$21,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetToronto United Mennonite Church — C$20,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CANADA — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKW MULTICULTURAL CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE OF THE BEAT INC. — C$9,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCAMBRIDGE FOOD BANK — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABUNDANCE CANADA — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENER DOWNTOWN HEALTHCARE — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKW ACCESSABILITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetK-W YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDECAPO CHAMBER CHOIR INC. — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW LIFE CHARITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKITCHENER-CONESTOGA ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY AID FUND — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 CAMBRIDGE SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rockway Mennonite Collegiate ↗
  • Who funds MCC (ONTARIO) ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD FESTIVAL OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SILVER LAKE MENNONITE CAMP ↗
  • Who funds CHILD WITNESS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ABILITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Womens Crisis Services of Waterloo Region ↗
  • Who funds MENNO HOMES KITCHENER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM COUNSELLING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKWAY MENNONITE CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds HIDDEN ACRES MENNONITE CAMP ↗
  • Who funds FIDA ↗
  • Who funds BOOKCLUB FOR INMATES ↗
  • Who funds MENNONITE WORLD CONFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS REFUGEE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Toronto United Mennonite Church ↗
  • Who funds MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds KW MULTICULTURAL CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE OF THE BEAT INC. ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ABUNDANCE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENER DOWNTOWN HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds KW ACCESSABILITY ↗
  • Who funds K-W YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DECAPO CHAMBER CHOIR INC. ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS VOICES OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENER-CONESTOGA ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY AID FUND ↗

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.

Waterloo Region Commu…Mersynergy Charitable…United Way Waterloo R…Abundance CanadaThe Lyle Shantz Hallm…Waterloo North Mennon…Shantz Mennonite Chur…Erb Street Mennonite …Wallenstein Feed Char…Stirling Avenue Menno…Steinmann Mennonite C…East Zorra Mennonite …
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON18.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Mersynergy Charitable Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Abundance Canada · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Waterloo North Mennonite Church · Shantz Mennonite Church · Erb Street Mennonite Church · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church · Steinmann Mennonite Church · East Zorra Mennonite Church

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 35 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 2024-05-31, 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 871317368:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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