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Barrie, ON · Private foundation

The Tonglen Foundation

The foundation disburses funds to registered charities as mandated by the trust document.

C$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k54 grants · C$156k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$2,500
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$15,000
BARRIE FOOD BANKC$7,500
ALLISTON FOOD BANKC$7,500
GOERGIAN COLLEGE FOOD LOCKERSC$7,500
THE TABLE SOUP KITCHENC$7,500
GILDAS CLUBC$5,000
DR WITHOUT BORDERSC$5,000
CANADIAN GUIDE GODS FOR THE BLINDC$5,000
GEORGIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYC$5,000
REDWOOD PARK COMMUNITYC$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRIEC$5,000
MENNONITE CENTRALC$5,000
THE BUSBY CENTREC$4,000
CAS BARRIEC$4,000
SHIFT - SUPPORT HOPE INDIVIDUALS FAMILIES TODAYC$4,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 85% of grant dollars (C$722k). The 15% that went abroad (C$132k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 15% of all-years giving (C$132k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$683k · 61 repeat orgsC$171k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
59

Total granted

C$683k
C$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
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

  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$62k · revenue +47%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$42k · revenue +66%
  • CG
    Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$35k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • GC
    GILDAS CLUB SIMCOE
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -48%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COLLEGE FOOD LOCKER
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +113%

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

04Your 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
Children's Treatment Network of Simcoe York

Children's Treatment Network (CTN) supports children and youth with disabilities and developmental needs in their homes communities and schools. CTN provides programs and services including intake service navigation coordinated service…

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2
Brands for Canada

The organization receives donations of new clothing from manufacturers and retailers and distributes them to over 80 social agencies working with clients living in poverty and crisis. the organization provides work placement for clients in…

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3
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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4
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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5
Shelterbox Canada

ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…

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6
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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7
The Career Foundation

The organization provides employment services across Ontario to people who are in need and facing barriers to employment. On going services include career exploration employment counselling job search training and job placements for at…

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8
New Path Youth & Family Counselling Services of Simcoe County

Across all our locations a full range of assessment and counselling services are provided by a team of professional counsellors that support children and youth their families and caregivers with their mental health. This includes…

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9
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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10
North Simcoe Victim Crisis Services

1) emergency victims services 2) human trafficking & 3) emergency housing

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11
New Path Foundation

The foundation provides gifts to new path youth & family counselling services of simcoe county a registered charitable organization to help at risk children and adolescents and their families. the foundation also operates programs to help…

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12
Amici Children's Camp Charity

Amici children's camp charity ('amici') is a registered charity established on the belief that all children have the right to discover their full potential. through multi-year access to the unique environment of summer camp amici fosters…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women & Children's Shelter (Barrie) and the most unlike its peers is Barrie Out of the Cold. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 122 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/68
Grantees still filing
53/68
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 budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$62,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB — C$42,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCanadian Guide Dogs for the Blind — C$35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGOERGIAN COLLEGE FOOD LOCKERS — C$34,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDavid Busby Centre — C$28,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHospice Simcoe — C$26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWomen & Children Shelter of Barrie — C$22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBARRIE FOOD BANK — C$21,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Haven — C$20,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSALVATION ARMY BARRIE — C$19,850 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE TABLE SOUP KITCHEN — C$18,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKINARK — C$17,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRVH Foundation — C$16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCMHA SIMCOE COUNTY — C$16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAPELAND AFRICA — C$14,400 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetFARMERS HELPING FARMERS — C$13,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetALLISTON FOOD BANK — C$12,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndspire — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International — C$11,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetREDWOOD PARK COMMUNITY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET CHARITY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DOGS — C$10,250 over 3y, 33% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL — C$9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMennonite Central International — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stephen Lewis Foundation — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRIE — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARD — C$9,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFT - SUPPORT HOPE INDIVIDUALS FAMILIES TODAY — C$8,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBARRIE XMAS CHEER — C$8,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$7,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAS BARRIE — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBear Valley Rescue — C$6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (Rosseau) — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetORBIS — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMidland Out of the Cold — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFree the Children — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL' Arche Daybreak — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN HOWARD — C$4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPINAL CORRD INJURY — C$4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEENSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAITON — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH FRY — C$4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInnisfil Christmas 4 Kids — C$4,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGilbert Centre — C$4,000 over 5y, 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 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind ↗
  • Who funds GOERGIAN COLLEGE FOOD LOCKERS ↗
  • Who funds David Busby Centre ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Simcoe ↗
  • Who funds Women & Children Shelter of Barrie ↗
  • Who funds BARRIE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Youth Haven ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY BARRIE ↗
  • Who funds THE TABLE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds KINARK ↗
  • Who funds RVH Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CMHA SIMCOE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GRAPELAND AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds FARMERS HELPING FARMERS ↗
  • Who funds ALLISTON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE ↗
  • Who funds Indspire ↗
  • Who funds Amnesty International ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD PARK COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds SWEET CHARITY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Easter Seals ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Mennonite Central International ↗
  • Who funds The Stephen Lewis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRIE ↗
  • Who funds CARD ↗
  • Who funds MENNONITE CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds SHIFT - SUPPORT HOPE INDIVIDUALS FAMILIES TODAY ↗
  • Who funds BARRIE XMAS CHEER ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIAN COLLEGE FOOD LOCKER ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAS BARRIE ↗
  • Who funds Bear Valley Rescue ↗

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.

The Albarrie Foundati…Barrie Community Foun…United Way Simcoe Mus…Honda Canada Foundati…Simcoe County Distric…The Legacy for You Fo…Innisfil Community Fo…Hydro One Employees' …Blue Sky FoundationThe Community Foundat…Doane Grant Thornton …Westside Evangelical …
The Albarrie FoundationON23.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albarrie Foundation · Barrie Community Foundation · United Way Simcoe Muskoka · Honda Canada Foundation · Simcoe County District School Board (Scdsb) · The Legacy for You Foundation · Innisfil Community Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Blue Sky Foundation · The Community Foundation of Orillia and Area · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Westside Evangelical Lutheran 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 122 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 889765400:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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