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United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada

Provides leadership support and coordination for the united way - centraide movement in canada provides leadership and coordination for the national 211 program in canada provides professional development and training opportunities to its members provides support in the development of web-enabled software tools to its members to…

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$715k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$191k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$71k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$715k
C$1,775
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINDHELP INFORMATION SERVICESC$715,459
UNITED WAY MONCTON & SOUTHEASTERN NEW BRUNSWICKC$71,000
UNITED WAY HALIFAXC$40,000
NUNAVUT KAMATSIAQTUT HELP LINEC$36,000
THE COUNCIL FOR BUSINESS AND THE ARTS INC$30,000
TAMARACK INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEM.C$30,000
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$24,837
CENTRE DE RÉFÉRENCE DU GRND MONTRÉALC$16,841
CANADIAN CENTRE FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIONC$13,506
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC-EDMONTONC$7,290
UNITED WAY ALBERTA CAPITAL REGIONC$4,738
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONC$4,314
UNIED WAY REGINAC$4,310
UNITED WAY WINNIPEGC$3,466
LAKEHEAD SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCILC$1,775
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$112M
Quebec
C$64M
British Columbia
C$39M
Alberta
C$30M
Manitoba
C$9.8M
Nova Scotia
C$8.4M
Saskatchewan
C$7.9M
New Brunswick
C$4.8M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$3.7M
Prince Edward Island
C$1.1M
Northwest Territories
C$446k
Yukon
C$446k
Nunavut
C$59k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$278M · 80 repeat orgsC$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
25

Total granted

C$278M
C$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

91%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$74k 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$41M · revenue +11%
  • CG
    CENTRAIDE GRAND MONTRÉAL
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$28M · revenue +59% · 30% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$27M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY HASTINGS & PRINCE EDWARD
    one grant, 2023 · C$656k
  • CD
    CENTRE D'INFORMATION ET DE RÉFÉRENCE DE LA CAPITALE NATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$549k · revenue +31% · 66% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY BRUCE GREY
    one grant, 2023 · C$514k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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 Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

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2
United Way of York Region
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3
United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada

Provides leadership support and coordination for the united way - centraide movement in canada provides leadership and coordination for the national 211 program in canada provides professional development and training opportunities to its…

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4
United Way of South Niagara
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5
The United Way of Milton

Raise funds to meet the increasing need of social service agencies through developing and nurturing strong community partnerships.

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6
Renfrew County United Way

To identify and address the needs of our communities by organizing the resources of community members to help one another.

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7
Weyburn and District United Way Inc.

Weyburn & district United Way Inc. functions as a fundraising organization that provides support to organizations that provide programs and services to our community.

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8
United Way of Oakville

Plan & conduct an annual fundraising campaign in the town of Oakville. Distribute funds raised to participating registered charities in accordance with the financial needs of these organizations. Funds are invested in 33 agencies & 54…

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9
United Way Fraser Valley
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10
Lakeland United Way Foundation

Raise funds through an annual campaign to assist local charities. Deliver programs and services such as Health, Youth, Safety, Volunteer and Community.

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11
Cowichan United Way
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12
United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie

United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie continues to work towards improving the lives of people in our community by raising funds and investing them directly into social and human services programs in Niagara Falls and Fort Erie.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Information Niagara Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 108 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.

58
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/96
Grantees still filing
64/96
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 budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$40,556,480 over 4y, 15% of budgetCENTRAIDE GRAND MONTRÉAL — C$27,814,926 over 5y, 30% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$27,061,618 over 6y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY ALBERTA CAPITAL REGION — C$11,966,996 over 5y, 26% of budgetUNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO — C$11,809,600 over 3y, 30% of budgetUNITED WAY CALGARY AND AREA — C$11,718,103 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetCENTRAIDE QUÉBEC CHAUDIÈRE-APPALACHES ET BAS-SAINT-LAURENT — C$9,848,257 over 5y, 21% of budgetCENTRAIDE DE RÉGIONS DU CENTRE-OUEST DU QUÉBEC — C$9,819,736 over 5y, 74% of budgetUNITED WAY WINNIPEG — C$8,991,438 over 4y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY HALTON & HAMILTON — C$7,750,128 over 5y, 37% of budgetUNITED WAY HALIFAX — C$6,172,241 over 6y, 47% of budgetUNITED WAY ELGIN MIDDLESEX — C$5,156,618 over 5y, 38% of budgetSIMCOE MUSKOKA — C$4,041,898 over 3y, 52% of budgetUNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES — C$3,960,837 over 4y, 35% of budgetCENTRAIDE LAURENTIDES — C$3,940,987 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY SASKATOON & AREA — C$3,818,548 over 6y, 47% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY — C$3,709,788 over 3y, 38% of budgetUNITED WAY NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR — C$3,665,693 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER VICTORIA — C$3,634,651 over 4y, 38% of budgetUNITED WAY REGINA — C$3,569,671 over 6y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY NIAGARA — C$3,485,603 over 4y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE NORTH EAST ONTARIO — C$3,129,896 over 3y, 63% of budgetFINDHELP INFORMATION SERVICES — C$3,122,484 over 5y, 47% of budgetCENTRAIDE RICHELIEU-YAMASKA — C$2,995,262 over 4y, 52% of budgetCENTRAIDE OUTAOUAIS — C$2,823,514 over 4y, 33% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER MONCTON & SOUTHEASTERN NEW BRUNSWICK — C$2,638,339 over 6y, 27% of budgetCENTRAIDE ESTRIE — C$2,488,405 over 4y, 68% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAL ALBERTA — C$2,479,552 over 4y, 69% of budgetUNITED WAY NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,249,231 over 4y, 73% of budgetUNITED WAY GUELPH WELLINGTON DUFFERIN — C$2,225,069 over 3y, 28% of budgetCENTRAIDE SAGUENAY-LAC-ST-JEAN — C$2,100,304 over 5y, 28% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAL & NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$1,945,052 over 4y, 80% of budgetUNITED WAY SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC — C$1,870,856 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY KINGSTON FRONTENAC LENNOX AND ADDINGTON — C$1,841,626 over 5y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY THUNDER BAY — C$1,668,433 over 3y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAL NEW BRUNSWICK — C$1,500,332 over 7y, 65% of budgetUNITED WAY ALBERTA NORTHWEST — C$1,257,026 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY BRANT — C$1,182,619 over 4y, 54% of budgetUNITED WAY PERTH-HURON — C$1,149,099 over 5y, 36% of budgetUNITED WAY CAPE BRETON — C$1,125,545 over 5y, 91% of budgetUNITED WAY LETHBRIDGE & SOUTH WESTERN ALBERTA — C$1,117,474 over 4y, 53% of budgetUNITED WAY PETERBOROUGH & DISTRICT — C$1,089,975 over 4y, 32% of budgetUNITED WAY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$1,085,060 over 6y, 58% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE STORMONT DUNDAS & GLENGARRY — C$1,022,382 over 4y, 38% of budgetUNITED WAY THOMPSON NICOLA CARIBOO — C$939,058 over 3y, 32% of budgetUNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT — C$932,630 over 3y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY HALDIMAND AND NORFOLK — C$887,474 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY SOUTH EASTERN ALBERTA — C$886,794 over 2y, 48% 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.

The Allstate Foundati…United Way of OakvilleUnited Way NiagaraUnited Way Golden Hor…United Way of the Alb…United Way Waterloo R…United Way of Durham …United Way Elgin Midd…United Way Fort McMur…United Way of Calgary…United Way of Sarnia-…Hydro One Employees' …
The Allstate Foundation of CanadaON27.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Allstate Foundation of Canada · United Way of Oakville · United Way Niagara · United Way Golden Horseshoe · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · United Way of Durham Region · United Way Elgin Middlesex · United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo · United Way of Calgary and Area · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund

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 108 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 public foundation under community resource.

Source object 119278141:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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