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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

The Starfish Foundation

Continuing assistance to other registered charities.

C$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STELLA'S PLACEC$5,000
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$5,000
BURLINGTON FOOD BANKC$1,971
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$84k · 3 repeat orgsC$41k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

C$84k
C$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+108%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’24
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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$75k · revenue +40%
  • SP
    STELLA'S PLACE
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$7k · revenue +12%
  • BF
    BURLINGTON FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$3k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILDREN AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k
  • ES
    Empowerment Squaredgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue ×16
  • MS
    MISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON INC.graduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500 · revenue +108%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field
02the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEmpowerment Squared — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGTON FOOD BANK — C$2,971 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON INC. — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE — C$500 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.

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 8 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 teaching institutions.

Source object 862204898:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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