Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization
True North Aid
Sent tens of thousands of pounds of food health and menstrual supplies infant necessities backpacks and school supplies sport equipment bicycles winter clothes blankets and houshold items appliances holiday gift packages and furniture to more than 30 nothern communities throughout canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$48k
- C$10k–50k11 grants · C$281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL NATIONS PADDLES UP | C$47,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$35,000 |
| SHAWTHAN NAZHI HEALING WITH THE LAND SOCIETY | C$35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$30,000 |
| MIKISEW CREE FIRST NATION | C$24,500 |
| TWIN LAKES COMMUNITY SCHOOL | C$23,703 |
| INNU ROUND TABLE SECRETARIAT | C$21,000 |
| INPATH PROJECT | C$20,000 |
| EBB AND FLOW FIRST NATION | C$16,875 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SUPPORT (YES GROUP) | C$14,814 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$12,134 |
| TURNOR LAKE & BIRCH NARROWS COMMUNITY CENTRE | C$9,100 |
| SUWILAAWKS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | C$8,677 |
| MOUNTAIN METIS NATION ASSOCIATION | C$7,648 |
| AKRC : ANISHINAABEG OF KABAPIKOTAWANGAG RESOURCE COUNCIL INC | C$7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 44% of grant dollars (C$257k). The 56% that went abroad (C$329k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 56% of all-years giving (C$329k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$329k 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
- SNSPIRIT NORTH2× · 2021–2023 · C$50k · revenue +110%
- WFWATER FIRST3× · 2019–2021 · C$46k · revenue +426%
- SOSEW ON FIRE4× · 2018–2021 · C$29k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- QCQAKUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FRIDGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · C$45k · revenue +48%
- LOLEGACY OF HOPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue -1%
- CRCANADIAN ROOTS EXCHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +54%
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.
Pathways to indigenous youth leadership international aboriginal youth internships wateraid chinese virtual leadership program united nations permanent forum for indigenous issues
OBC delivers experiential education programs that cultivate resilience leadership connections and compassion through inspiring journeys of self discovery in the natural world. The majority of our programs take place while travelling…
Taking IT Global Youth Association's ('TIG') programs support social innovation provide connected learning experiences and offer training for youth that fosters creativity and digital skills helping them make greater contribution to the…
Cultural programs for first nations children
The Howl Experience offers two separate programs: Howl Explorations and Howl High. Howl Explorations - Howl gives its participants an opportunity to explore a variety of locations (Rockies Maritimes and Yukon). Through this program the…
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…
To build the leadership capacity of young people in elementary schools. community builders carry out various programs to develop a sense of belonging for each young person in school including those at risk. in keeping with our mandate…
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…
Sent tens of thousands of pounds of food health and menstrual supplies infant necessities backpacks and school supplies sport equipment bicycles winter clothes blankets and houshold items appliances holiday gift packages and furniture to…
C4C is an independent non-partisan charitable organization that works to create greater inclusion and prosperity in Canada through media and arts. We use the power of storytelling to create empathy understanding and relationships required…
Gloabal indigenous dialogues; creators of peace: peace circles; team development; international peace building and development programs (farmers dialogue panchgani); local regional peacebuilding and international day of peace; canadian…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Winnipeg Rotary Club Community Service Fund Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Dollywood Foundation of Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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. 11 of the 32 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 SPIRIT NORTH ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST ↗
- Who funds QAKUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FRIDGE ↗
- Who funds SEW ON FIRE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF WINNIPEG ↗
- Who funds DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION CANADA ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN ROOTS EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE CANTRAL COMMITEE ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCES CANADA ↗
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: The Winnipeg Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.