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Kitchener, ON · Private foundation

The Vaux Family Foundation

We make gifts to qualified donees in the following areas: - the relief of poverty - the advancement of education - other purposes of beneficial interest to the community

C$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$4,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food4KidsC$5,000
LutherwoodC$5,000
The MuseumC$5,000
The Food Bank of Waterloo RegionC$4,000
Muscular Dystrophy CanadaC$3,000
Ray of HopeC$1,500
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo RegionC$1,500
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$39k · 4 repeat orgsC$24k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

C$39k
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
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

  • FW
    Food4Kids Waterloo Region
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +16%
  • L
    Lutherwood
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +9%
  • RO
    REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)
    2× · 2020–2022 · C$9k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MP
    Marillac Placegraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$8k · revenue +65%
  • AB
    A Better Tent City Waterloo Regiongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +46%
  • HO
    House of Friendshipgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +64%

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
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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2
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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3
Supportive Housing of Waterloo

SHOW's mission is to collaboratively provide housing and a continuum of supports to those who have experienced homelessness and encountered barriers to achieving their fundamental right to safe and affordable housing. SHOW is dedicated to…

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4
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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5
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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6
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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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
Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency

Youth without shelter is a 53 bed residence for homeless youth aged 16-24. in addition to shelter and food the following services are provided: mental health counselling life skills training employment services personal clothing and…

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9
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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10
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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11
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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12
Wyndham House

Wyndham house provides a continuum of care for homeless and at-risk youth aged 16 to 24 that includes: - a residential program focusing on education community involvement and life skills; - an emergency shelter for any youth experiencing a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Friendship and the most unlike its peers is Themuseum of Ideas Transcending Objects. 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

11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Museum — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFood4Kids Waterloo Region — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLutherwood — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarillac Place — C$7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA Better Tent City Waterloo Region — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Food Bank of Waterloo Region — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Canada — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRay of Hope — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Friendship — C$1,500 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…The Food Bank of Wate…The Congregation of t…Trinity United ChurchThe Roman Catholic Ep…United Way Waterloo R…Blue Sea Philanthropy…The Home Depot Canada…Abundance CanadaVancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON10× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · The Congregation of the Resurrection in Ontario · Trinity United Church · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Abundance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 11 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 727149916:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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