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Ancaster, ON · Private foundation

Turkstra Foundation

The purpose of the organization is to receive and maintain funds and to apply all or part of the principal income from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the canadian income tax act.

C$380k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$350k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$482k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUE NORTH AIDC$100,000
TELLING TALESC$100,000
Individual grant recipientC$100,000
INDSPIREC$50,000
WATER FOR PEOPLE-CANADA/DE L'EAU POUR TOUS-CANADAC$20,000
OPERATION SMILEC$10,000
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.3M · 10 repeat orgsC$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
22

Total granted

C$4.3M
C$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • IF
    Incite Foundation for the Arts
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$2.9M · revenue +72% · 95% of their budget
  • TT
    TELLING TALES
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$240k · revenue +119%
  • I
    INDSPIRE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$200k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of waterloograduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5.0M · revenue +31%
  • LW
    LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +25%
  • TT
    Telling Tales-Rotary Club
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -61%

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
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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2
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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3
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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4
One Global (Canada)

Educate the public on issues of and relating to extreme poverty and preventable disease with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

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5
Amref Health Africa in Canada

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…

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6
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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7
Humanitarian Coalition /

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…

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8
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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9
Canadian Rights Action Foundation

To work to end poverty and exploitation protect the environment strengthen rule of law justice and human rights in the Americas in general and in particularly Guatemala and Honduras. To conduct education and outreach work with citizens…

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10
Raah Health and Development Foundation Canada

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…

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11
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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12
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Charitable Corporation of the Rotary Club of Hamilton Am and the most unlike its peers is Incite Foundation for the Arts. 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

30 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. 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of waterloo — C$5,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIncite Foundation for the Arts — C$2,870,491 over 2y, 95% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$240,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$160,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDoctor's Without Borders — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE-CANADA/DE L'EAU POUR TOUS-CANADA — C$50,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetJOY AND HOPE OF HAITI — C$25,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelling Tales-Rotary Club — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSCLERODERMA SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHamilton Children's Choir — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCenter 3 — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShalem Mental Health — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRotary Club - Image in the Park — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHamilton Food Share — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLevel. Changing lives throught law — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanada Helps — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUSO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKairos Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSix Nations Public Library — C$500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWelcome Inn Community Centre — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Guide Dogs — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterAid — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bob kemp Hospice — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamh Foundation — C$150 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.

Hamilton Community Fo…The Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…Incite Foundation for…Link Charity Canada I…United Way of the Alb…All Charities CampaignUnited Way British Co…Private Giving Founda…Ottawa Community Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…The Canadian Red Cros…
Hamilton Community FoundationON14.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Incite Foundation for the Arts · Link Charity Canada Inc · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · All Charities Campaign · United Way British Columbia · Private Giving Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge

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 32 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 849346168:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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