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Windsor, ON · Private foundation

The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation

The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation makes grants to charities that are qualified donees under the income tax act.

C$521k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$350k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S SAFETY VILLAGEC$100,000
TRANSITION TO BETTERNESSC$100,000
JOHN MCGIVNEY CHILDREN'S CENTREC$100,000
ESSEX REGION CONSERVATION FUNDC$50,000
UNITED WAYC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$25,000
CMHAC$25,000
CALVARY GOSPEL TEMPLE-KINGSVILLEC$15,000
CALVARY GOSPEL TEMPLE-KINGSVILLEC$10,238
UNITED WAYC$10,000
ART GALLERY OF WINDSORC$10,000
KIWANIS SUNSHINE CAMPC$10,000
GR8 DAY CROSSROADS ADDICTION RECOVERY SUPPORTC$10,000
TRANSITION TO BETTERNESSC$5,000
TRANSITION TO BETTERNESSC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.0M · 31 repeat orgsC$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

C$6.0M
C$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+6%

Still filing today

94%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$157k 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

  • SC
    ST. CLAIR COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$4.0M · revenue +136%
  • JM
    JOHN MCGIVNEY CHILDREN'S CENTRE
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$200k · revenue +3%
  • ER
    ESSEX REGION CONSERVATION FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$175k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • WJ
    WINDSOR JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$36k · revenue +6%
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k
  • CF
    CHILDREN FIRST OF ESSEX COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +12%

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
Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation

Donations and fundraising for enhancements furnishings and equipment for the windsor regional cancer centre. providing funding to other organizations related to cancer research and related activities.

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2
Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society

The Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society is dedicated to the well-being and safety of every child by advocating for and partnering with children youth families and communities. The organization is mandated by the Children Youth and Family…

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3
Victorian Order of Nurses Windsor Essex County Endowment Foundation

To provide program support to the victorian order of nurses erie st clair-windsor site. program support consists of direct grants to the windsor site for ongoing programs and direct grants to the vicotiran order of nurses windsor essex…

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4
Windsor Organ Transplant and Cardiac Care

The board of directors voted to dissolve the organization and the remaining funds are to be donated to qualified donees london health sciences foundation in 2025

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5
Windsor Fire Department

Its primary objectives are to extinguish and prevent the spread of fires; to provide aid and assistance in any emergency; to promote the prevention of injury or death to individuals; to promote the preservation of property to promote…

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6
Windsor Endowment for the Arts

Foster develop support and champion a vibrant dynamic arts community in the city of winsdor dedicated to the advancement of education and development of the public understanding of and appreciation for the arts through encouragement of the…

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7
Jewish Community Endowment Fund of Windsor

Received gifts endowments and donations anddisbursement fund to other charitable organizations in the windsor area

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8
Windsor Workers' Education Centre
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9
Windsor Essex Community Health Centre

Health promotion programs such as: medical care counselling health promotion diabetes programs etc.

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10
Windsor Regional Hospital

Hospital services - acute inpatient and related outpatient services within a public hospital.

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11
University of Windsor Employees Charity Trust

United way of windsor-essex

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12
Dr. Fouad Tayfour Charitable Foundation

Foundation continues to support the health sector especially in the windsor area

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Foundation and the most unlike its peers is House of Sophrosyne. 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

49 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. 49 of the 56 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
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 budgetST. CLAIR COLLEGE — C$4,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRANSITION TO BETTERNESS — C$607,092 over 8y, 11% of budgetJOHN MCGIVNEY CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetESSEX REGION CONSERVATION FUND — C$175,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetUnited Way — C$145,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetACADEMIE STE CECILE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — C$101,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFETY VILLAGE — C$100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetW.E. Care for Kids — C$98,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetWINDSOR KIWANAIS CHARITABLE TRUST — C$90,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCMHA — C$86,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWindsor-Essex Children's AID Foundation — C$54,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE HOSPICE OF WINDSOR & ESSEX COUNTY INC. — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRMH WINDSOR — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGR8 DAY CROSSROADS ADDICTION RECOVERY SUPPORT — C$40,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetWINDSOR JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$36,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetST.CLAIR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$30,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetThe Art Gallery of Windsor — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCALVARY GOSPEL TEMPLE-KINGSVILLE — C$27,738 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE UNITED CHURCH DOWNTOWN MISSION OF WINDSOR — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM — C$22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST OF ESSEX COUNTY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDSOR ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$19,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWindsor Homes Coalition Inc. — C$15,700 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetVS SICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE DAY DREAMS — C$14,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetA LIFE WORTH LIVING — C$10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFirst Lutheran Christian Academy — C$7,050 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTeh Windsor Residence for Young Men — C$6,542 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWindsor Youth Center — C$6,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetART WINDSOR ESSEX — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ONTARIO INC. — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetERIE SHORES HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNEMPLOYED HELP CENTRE OF WINDSOR — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDROUILLARD PLACE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMHERSTBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetWINDSOR REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOTEL DIEU GRACE HEALTH CARE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF SOPHROSYNE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetERIE WILDLIFE RESCUE — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRoyal Lepage Shelter Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUMEI CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoeys Syndrome Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAKEVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF SHALOM YOUTH CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBe a Gem Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWINDSOR LIFE CENTRE MINISTRIES — C$250 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.

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.

Windsoressex Communit…Local 200 Canadian Au…The Toldo FoundationSolcz Family Foundati…Local 444 Canadian Au…United Way/Centraide …Rosati Family Foundat…Windsor-Essex Catholi…The Rotary Club of Wi…Windsor Spitfires Fou…The Charles and Ethel…United Way of Chatham…
Windsoressex Community FoundationON26.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windsoressex Community Foundation · Local 200 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund · The Toldo Foundation · Solcz Family Foundation · Local 444 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund · United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County · Rosati Family Foundation · Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board · The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fund · Windsor Spitfires Foundation · The Charles and Ethel Cohen Family Foundation · United Way of Chatham-Kent

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 56 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 830512554:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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