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Cambridge, ON · Public foundation

United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

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C$3.3M
Granted FY2017
122
Grants FY2017
1
Regions reached
C$418k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under C$10k80 grants · C$75k
  • C$10k–50k29 grants · C$751k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.1M
C$1,200
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KW Counselling ServicesC$417,745
Carizon Family & Community ServicesC$385,917
House of FriendshipC$333,201
YWCA Kitchener-WaterlooC$241,880
Big Brothers Big SistersC$198,450
Women's Crisis Services of WaterlooC$176,732
John Howard Society of Waterloo WellingtonC$141,876
Canadian Mental Health AssociationC$116,749
Canadian National Institute for the BlindC$103,684
Kitchener Waterloo YMCAC$101,824
oneROOF Youth ServicesC$100,143
Community Justice InitiativesC$95,400
Child Witness Centre of Waterloo RegionC$58,319
Volunteer Action CentreC$49,272
Canadian Hearing Society-Waterloo RegionC$43,040
02Your 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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Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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2
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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3
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

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United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington

United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington is a charity that works towards a future where people in our community are self-sufficient and can live with hope dignity and a sense of belonging. We financially support a network of…

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Waterloo Region Family Network

Waterloo region network supports families of children youth and adults with special needs both with and without a diagnosis in waterloo region prviding resources and facilitating meaningful connections in all life stages. as a…

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Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County

Raises funds and volunteer resources to; 1) support basic needs (food and financial supports) 2) support children and families with programs that promote literacy numeracy social inclusion mental health and educational attainment 3)…

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10
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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11
Community Living Wallaceburg

Community Living Wallaceburg's purpose: We co-create design & deliver supports that empower people to overcome barriers and live the life they choose. Community Living Wallaceburg provides meaningful supports and services to individuals…

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Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region

The provision of child protection services to the children youth and families of the waterloo region

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington and the most unlike its peers is Embro & Zorra Agricultural Society. 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

117 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. 117 of the 119 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
108/117
Grantees still filing
85/117
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKW Counselling Services — C$417,745 over 1y, 14% of budgetCarizon Family & Community Services — C$385,917 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHouse of Friendship — C$333,201 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYWCA Kitchener-Waterloo — C$241,880 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters — C$198,450 over 1y, 23% of budgetWomen's Crisis Services of Waterloo — C$176,850 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJohn Howard Society of Waterloo Wellington — C$141,876 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$116,749 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian National Institute for the Blind — C$103,785 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKitchener Waterloo YMCA — C$101,824 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetoneROOF Youth Services — C$100,143 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCommunity Justice Initiatives — C$95,400 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetChild Witness Centre of Waterloo Region — C$58,319 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVolunteer Action Centre — C$49,272 over 1y, 19% of budgetCanadian Hearing Society-Waterloo Region — C$43,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoolwich Counselling Centre — C$42,067 over 1y, 10% of budgetIndependent Living Centre of Waterloo — C$40,313 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorking Centre, The — C$36,022 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetK-W Access-Ability — C$35,834 over 1y, 18% of budgetCentral Ontario Developmental Riding Program — C$34,548 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFood Bank of Waterloo Region — C$32,421 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImmigration Partnership — C$31,355 over 1y, 10% of budgetWoolwich Community Services — C$30,841 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo & Area — C$29,407 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Support Connections - Meals — C$27,917 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSexual Health Options, Resource & Education - SHORE Centre — C$25,555 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetShalom Counselling Services Inc. — C$24,149 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNew Hamburg Interfaith Community Counselling Centre — C$23,900 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre — C$23,663 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLiteracy Group of Waterloo Region — C$22,396 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCommunity Information Centre of Ottawa (Ontario 211) — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFocus for Ethnic Women — C$19,700 over 1y, 50% of budgetMarch of Dimes Canada — C$16,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Care Concepts of Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot — C$16,164 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSupporting Housing of Waterloo (SHOW) — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetExtend-A-Family Waterloo Region — C$13,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParents for Community Living — C$13,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way Guelph Wellinigton Dufferin — C$13,092 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVictim Services of Waterloo Region — C$11,900 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHealthPartners Canada — C$10,018 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Cambridge & North Dumfries — C$9,028 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way Perth-Huron — C$5,720 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$4,136 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalvary Pentecostal Assembly — C$4,015 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Peel Region — C$3,864 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Oxford — C$3,289 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrandview Baptist Church — C$2,446 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWilfrid Laurier University — C$2,400 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.

United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Region Commu…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Cambridge & North Dum…United Way of OakvilleSocial Venture Partne…The Cowan FoundationUnited Way of OxfordUnited Way of Canada …The May Court Club of…Astley Family Foundat…Gore Mutual Insurance…
United Way Waterloo Region CommunitiesON60.6× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · United Way of Oakville · Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region · The Cowan Foundation · United Way of Oxford · United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · Astley Family Foundation · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation

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 119 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 2017-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2017. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation.

Source object 108160219:2017-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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