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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Winged Achene Foundation

In 2024 the foundation was monitoring the activities of existing donees and meeting their staff.

C$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$88k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$227k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$188k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
the McGill University Health Centre FoundationC$87,512
Journalists for Human RightsC$50,000
SickKids FoundationC$50,000
Individual grant recipientC$47,258
Second Harvest CanadaC$40,000
Canadian Parks and Wilderness SocietyC$25,000
Room to ReadC$25,000
YWCA TorontoC$25,000
Give Kids a Chance FoundationC$25,000
Working Gear Clothing SocietyC$20,000
Dress for SuccessC$20,000
Georgian Bay BiosphereC$5,000
Weengushk Film InstituteC$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$916k · 13 repeat orgsC$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 12 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

13
1

Total granted

C$916k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SH
    Second Harvest Canada
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$110k · revenue +194%
  • CP
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$75k · revenue +45%
  • RT
    Room to Read
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$70k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HD
    Hot Docs Festival
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +1%

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.

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Cameras for Girls

Cameras For Girls pursues Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa using photography as our catalyst. We provide women who face gender-based barriers to employment with a camera to keep and a 4-phase photography storytelling and…

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2
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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3
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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4
Global Indigenous Development Trust

Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…

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5
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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6
The Resilience Institute

The organization develops educational programs & conducts active participatory research on climate change & sustainability. Priority program areas include developing the capacity of Indigenous Communities to adapt to climate impacts &…

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7
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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8
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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9
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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10
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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11
Cuso International

Cuso International is a Canadian not-for-profit international cooperation and development organization that works to create economic and social opportunities for marginalized groups in Africa Latin America the Caribbean and Canada.…

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12
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Kingston and the most unlike its peers is Hot Docs. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetthe McGill University Health Centre Foundation — C$165,824 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSickKids Foundation — C$115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Canada — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGive Kids a Chance Foundation — C$75,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetRoom to Read — C$70,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetYMCA TORONTO — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDress For Success — C$50,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetJournalists for Human Rights — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Stop Community Food Centre — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWorking Gear Clothing Society — C$40,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWeengushk Film Institute — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGeorgian Bay Biosphere — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHot Docs Festival — C$3,000 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.

Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way of Greater…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Rbc Foundation/Rbc FondationON5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 15 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 725015937:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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