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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

The Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundation

Receiving and managing funds for the exclusive purpose of making gifts to charitable organizations that are registered charities under the income tax act.

C$371k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$240k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$118k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$240k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Mary's General Hospital FoundationC$240,000
Renison University CollegeC$33,000
House of FriendshipC$25,000
The Food Bank of Waterloo RegionC$20,000
Food4Kids Waterloo RegionC$10,000
Grand River Hospital FoundationC$10,000
Kerr Street MissionC$10,000
Breast Cancer Support FundC$10,000
LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement SocietyC$7,500
St Andrew's Memorial Anglican ChurchC$5,000
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.1M · 15 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • SM
    St. Mary's General Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +238%
  • HO
    Hospice of Waterloo Region
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$250k · revenue +23%
  • GR
    Grand River Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$160k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$947k
  • UO
    University of Waterloo
    one grant, 2017 · C$300k
  • WL
    Wilfrid Laurier University
    one grant, 2020 · C$110k · revenue +14%

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 Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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3
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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4
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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5
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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6
United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

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7
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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8
K-W Symphony Foundation Inc.

Investment of endowment funds for the benefit of orchestral music in the waterloo region community

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9
Waterloo Regional Cardiac Rehabilitation Foundation Inc
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10
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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11
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region

The provision of child protection services to the children youth and families of the waterloo region

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Long-Run Thoroughbred Retirement Society. 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

31 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. 31 of the 37 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt. Mary's General Hospital Foundation — C$1,061,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHospice of Waterloo Region — C$250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGrand River Hospital Foundation — C$160,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Food Bank of Waterloo Region — C$145,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHouse of Friendship — C$137,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWilfrid Laurier University — C$110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenison University College — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDurham Association for Family Resources and Support — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKitchener-Waterloo Symphony — C$91,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society — C$34,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHopespring Cancer Support Centre — C$16,666 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMennonite Central Committee — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKid's Ability Foundation — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAll Saints Anglican Church — C$11,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBreast Cancer Support Fund — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKerr Street Mission — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood4Kids Waterloo Region — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWomen's Crisis Services of Waterloo — C$7,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Waterloo Region — C$5,700 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSt Andrew's Memorial Anglican Church — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Children — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood4Kids Halton — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNYO Canada — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA - Kitchener Waterloo — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINCORPORATED SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF HURON — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA - Kitchener Waterloo — C$1,184 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKid's Ability Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildcan — C$1,000 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…The Ross and Doris Di…Kitchener-Conestoga R…Private Giving Founda…The May Court Club of…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Unity Centre of Pract…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Cambridge & North Dum…Abundance CanadaThe Roman Catholic Ep…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON15.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · Private Giving Foundation · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Unity Centre of Practical Christianity · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario

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 37 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 832716898:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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