West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
The Walker Lynch Foundation
Provide qualified donees with funds for qualified activities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CMB Management Services Inc | C$6,000 |
| United Way of Greater Toronto | C$6,000 |
| Toronto Star Santa Clause Fund | C$6,000 |
| The Sunnybrook Foundation | C$6,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | C$5,000 |
| President's Choice Children's Charity | C$5,000 |
| UNICEF | C$5,000 |
| Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth | C$5,000 |
| Operation Smile Canada | C$4,000 |
| The Boundless School | C$3,000 |
| World Vision Canada | C$3,000 |
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- TSTORONTO STAR5× · 2017–2022 · C$38k · revenue +38%
- TSTHE SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +93%
- CMCMB Management Services Inc5× · 2017–2022 · C$28k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SFSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · C$6k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOone grant, 2019 · C$6k
- TSTORONTO STAR FRESH AIR FUNDone grant, 2019 · C$6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…
Restore sight to people in developing countries
Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…
Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…
The Foundation granted wishes to children suffering from high risk life threatening illnesses. The foundation also funds research and provides grants to health care facilities in Canada that either research diseases that particularly…
The Humanitarian Coalition contributes towards alleviating acute human suffering among survivors of humanitarian disasters. As a joint Canadian approach to humanitarian response the Humanitarian Coalition is a 'one-stop-shop' for all…
Educate the public on issues of and relating to extreme poverty and preventable disease with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Action against hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. we save the lives of malnourished children. we ensure everyone can access clean water food training and health…
To promote health and relieve poverty in developing nations by providing individuals families and communities who are poor or in need with health care services products and information that prevent and manage serious threats to health and…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Promote health by providing affected populations with health care services or products that prevent and manage serious threats to health and survival. Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing basic necessities of life including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada and the most unlike its peers is Hospice Huntsville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
27 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. 27 of the 30 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TORONTO STAR ↗
- Who funds THE SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CMB Management Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNICEF CANADA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth ↗
- Who funds Operation Smile Canada ↗
- Who funds President's Choice Children's Charity ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Borders ↗
- Who funds BOUNDLESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTT MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds FREE THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Canada Gives · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Link Charity Canada Inc · Raymond James Canada 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.