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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive and maintain funds in order to help the needy and the poor such as children and families whose income is below the national poverty level.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$125k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$563k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.2M
C$7,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITYC$1,001,500
ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITALC$850,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$300,000
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$200,000
THE WORKING CENTRE (ST. JOSEPH'S KITCHEN)C$200,000
GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MENNO HOMESC$62,500
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIOC$30,000
FRIENDS OF HSI (HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL)C$25,000
HOSPICE WATERLOO REGIONC$25,000
THE FOODBANK OF WATERLOOC$15,000
THE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL CHURCHC$10,000
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITYC$10,000
CFUW K-W CHARITABLE FUNDC$10,000
CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL COUNCILC$7,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.1M · 37 repeat orgsC$537k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
10

Total granted

C$7.1M
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$526k 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

  • WL
    WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +22%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +238%
  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$515k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k
  • LS
    LEITH SUMMER FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k
  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +11%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
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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3
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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4
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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5
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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6
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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7
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery connecting people and ideas through art with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations the Gallery collects preserves researches…

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8
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…

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9
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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10
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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11
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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12
Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation

The charity is primary a grant making organization which supports heritage initiatives in waterloo region. its primary purpose is to preserve and financially assist in the preservation of heritage landmarks historical buildings and other…

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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 Leith Summer Festival. 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

48 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. 48 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
39/48
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 budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$2,057,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$1,592,356 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$515,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetK-W Working Centre for the Unemployed — C$450,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$314,986 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE WATERLOO REGION — C$300,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENNO HOMES — C$250,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMCC ONTARIO — C$240,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO — C$176,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCFUW K-W CHARITABLE FUND — C$163,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetLISAARD HOUSE INNISFREE HOUSE — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$101,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKITCHENER-WATERLOO SYMPHONY — C$97,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL CHURCH — C$80,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCHILD WITNESS CENTRE — C$75,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSUNBEAM CENTRE — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE — C$50,523 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN INTERNATIOANL COUNCIL — C$50,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF THE WATERLOO REGION FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPREIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HSI (HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL) — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO REGION — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONEROOF YOUTH SERVICES — C$12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWATERLOO-WELLINGTON SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR — C$10,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetSEND'EM OFF SMILING — C$8,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY CENTRE — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HELLENIC INITIATIVES CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeith Summer Festival — C$5,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKC ROTARY CLUB — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR YOUTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVERMBER FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA SPCA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed ↗
  • Who funds RARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE WATERLOO REGION ↗
  • Who funds THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MENNO HOMES ↗
  • Who funds MCC ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOODBANK OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds CFUW K-W CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds LISAARD HOUSE INNISFREE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENER-WATERLOO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CHILD WITNESS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds SUNBEAM CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN INTERNATIOANL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF THE WATERLOO REGION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PREIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HSI (HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL) ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO REGION ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ONEROOF YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO-WELLINGTON SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR ↗
  • Who funds SEND'EM OFF SMILING ↗
  • Who funds THE PREGNANCY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NUTRITION FOR LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds THE HELLENIC INITIATIVES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Leith Summer Festival ↗
  • Who funds LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KC ROTARY CLUB ↗

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…Gore Mutual Insurance…The Ross and Doris Di…Abundance CanadaThe Roman Catholic Ep…The May Court Club of…The Cowan FoundationKitchener-Conestoga R…United Way of Kitchen…Cambridge & North Dum…Ontario Realtors Care…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON18.2× affinity16 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 · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · The Cowan Foundation · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care 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 51 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 846047603:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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