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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

The Yellow Bus Foundation

The objective of THE YELLOW BUS FOUNDATION is to enrich the lives of children in canada living with chronic illness and/or serious medical conditions as well as providing enriching opportunities for disadvantaged youth.

C$635k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 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–50k3 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$560k
C$60,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jack.orgC$125,000
Power To Be Adventure Therapy SocietyC$125,000
Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach CentreC$125,000
Jennifer Ashleigh Children's CharityC$125,000
Kids Up Front FoundationC$60,000
The Regent Park/Duke of York Children's FoundationC$25,050
13th RoundC$25,000
Daytrippers Children's CharityC$15,000
Breakwater FoundationC$5,000
SPCAC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 11 repeat orgsC$82k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-11%

Still filing today

82%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • JA
    JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$863k · revenue +40%
  • PT
    POWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$858k · revenue +46%
  • BB
    BLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$813k · revenue +266% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • LS
    Lake Scugog United Churhc Camp Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +75%
  • FT
    FOODSHARE TORONTO
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -34%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SERVICE DOG TRAINING CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -11%

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
Rainbow Programs for Children

Offers an eight week inclusive summer day camp program for children 4-14. provides a one to one program for campers with special needs an leader-in-training program for youth a teen camp program for youth with special needs and a…

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2
Kids Can Charity

Kids can charity provides athletic and recreational programs for children and youth affected by autism that incidues after school programs. after school programs are group or one on one therapy for children and youth between 6 to 13.

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3
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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4
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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5
Playful Mindset

Our focus is on supporting children's mental health and addressing adverse childhood experiences in the early (age 0-12 years old) through unstructered outdoor play and play-based learning. playful mindset is a collaborative initiative a…

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6
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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7
Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids
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8
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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9
Lay-Up Youth Basketball

Lay-up is working on the future of access to basketball through cost-free leadership basketball programs in toronto's priority communities. lay-up's mission is to empower youth with confidence life skills and to support their positive…

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10
Skills for Life Inc

Skills for life aligns with the 'mindset growth model' which amplifies the importance of continuous learning and self-discovery. the concept was founded on the principles of exploring confronting and moving past failure to build on key…

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11
Boundless Adventures Association

Mental health and education programs for struggling young people

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12
Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre

Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre provides grief counselling and specialized programming to children youth and their families who are facing or grieving the death of a parent primary caregiver or sibling in the city of Toronto. Families come…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Future Possibilities (Canada) Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Wild Hogs' Deeds4kids. 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

19 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. 19 of the 22 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$862,800 over 8y, 12% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$857,800 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetBLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTRE — C$812,800 over 8y, 42% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$728,600 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT FOUNDATION — C$368,700 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetThe regent Park/Duke of York Children's Foundation — C$347,850 over 7y, 90% of budgetChildhood Cancer Canada — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDaytrippers Children's Charity — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLake Scugog United Churhc Camp Inc — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetVIBE Arts — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheena's Place — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPCA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SERVICE DOG TRAINING CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTON FRONTLINES CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBreakwater Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWILD HOGS DEEDS4KIDS — C$5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFUTURE POSIBILITIES INC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAutism Society Ontario — C$1,000 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.

Toronto FoundationTD Securities Underwr…Charities Aid Foundat…CIBC Foundation / Fon…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Kids Up Front Foundat…Aqueduct FoundationHydro One Employees' …BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Youth and Philanthrop…Jewish Foundation of …
Toronto FoundationON11.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Aqueduct Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

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 22 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 2024-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 854829520:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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