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North York, ON · Public foundation

Unity for Autism

To provide funding to charitable organizations to enhance the development and well-being of individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

C$787k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k31 grants · C$617k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$165k
C$20,000
Median grant
9
Regions reached
C$943k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM HOME BASE DURHAMC$60,000
AUTISM DOG SERVICESC$55,000
AUTISM IN MINDC$50,000
QUICKSTART - EARLY INTERVENTION FOR AUTISMC$40,000
GIANT STEPS TORONTO INCC$40,000
CONCORD IN THE CITY ABILITY INITIATIVEC$35,000
GROWING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADULTSC$30,000
HEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCEC$30,000
EVENTS FOR LIFEC$25,000
SOUTH ASIAN AUTISM AWARENESS CENTREC$25,000
XENIA CONCERTS INCC$24,000
INCLUSION MOOSE JAWC$23,000
FOOTPRINTS 4 AUTISMC$23,000
PALS ADULT SERVICES SOCIETYC$22,000
WOODVIEW LEARNING CENTREC$22,000
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$2.8M
British Columbia
C$206k
Quebec
C$167k
Nova Scotia
C$140k
Saskatchewan
C$108k
Alberta
C$68k
Manitoba
C$45k
Prince Edward Island
C$20k
New Brunswick
C$20k

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 35 repeat orgsC$385k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
14

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • AD
    Autism Dog Services
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$355k · revenue +151%
  • AH
    AUTISM HOME BASE DURHAM
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$329k · revenue +607% · 38% of their budget
  • WM
    Woodview Mental Health
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$241k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • WC
    WILLOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +4%
  • AS
    ASPERGER'S SOCIETY OF ONTARIOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k · revenue +32% · 56% of their budget
  • WO
    Winnipeg Optimal Health Early Years Sports Club Inc.
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue -89%

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
Center for Innovation in Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
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2
The Autism Centre of Canada

Providing resources consultation and guidance to individuals and parents with developmental disabilities.

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3
Autism Lifepath
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4
Horses At Heart Therapeutic Equestrian Adventures Inc.

Programs are directed at children with autism children are taught horse skills including but not limited to grooming feeding haltering leading and ultimately riding a horse. children develop skills gain confidence and bond with an equine…

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5
Little Blue Schoolhouse Support Services

LBS Support Services provides summer camp services to teens and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related developmental delays.

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6
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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7
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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8
Autism Society of British Columbia

Learning - workshops related to assessment behavioural interventionist and support custom and community training. connection - community events social clubs and support groups support - 1-2-1 referral and resources digital support partner…

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9
Solaris Autism Services Inc.

Providing support mentoring and guidance to adults on the autism spectrum their families and caregivers raising awareness about autism and the concerns and life experiences of autistic adults

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10
Autism Beyond 21 Centre
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11
Society for the Treatment of Autism

Autism treatment services of canada is a national affiliation of an organization that provides a plan to provide treatment education management and consultation services to people with autism and related disorders across canada

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12
The Lighthouse Learning and Development Centre Inc.

The purpose of the Lighthouse Learning and Development Centre is to provide therapy including applied behavioural analysis occupational & speech therapy as well as educational learning to students who have a primary autism diagnosis.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Society Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Coast Stage Company. 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

56 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
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 budgetAutism Dog Services — C$355,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetAUTISM HOME BASE DURHAM — C$329,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetWoodview Mental Health — C$241,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGIANT STEPS TORONTO INC — C$200,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FOREST NATURE EXPERIENCE — C$190,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetAUTISM IN MIND — C$175,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetQUICKSTART - EARLY INTERVENTION FOR AUTISM — C$139,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AUTISM AWARENESS CENTRE — C$122,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$115,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINCLUSION MOOSE JAW — C$108,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCHILDREN AT RISK — C$90,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFOOTPRINTS 4 AUTISM — C$82,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetCONCORD IN THE CITY ABILITY INITIATIVE — C$80,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetGIANT STEPS MONTREAL — C$76,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of the Learning Disabled, Camp Kirk — C$72,250 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetXENIA CONCERTS INC — C$64,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetGROWING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADULTS — C$57,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHINCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY (ZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN) — C$50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJohn Cooper Learning Centre — C$50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPROSET AUTISM/AUTISME PROSET — C$47,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetOAK BRIDGE ACADEMY — C$46,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetONTARIO TRACK 3 — C$45,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetINTERGRATED SERVICES FOR AUTISM AND NEURODEVELOPMENT — C$43,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPALS ADULT SERVICES SOCIETY — C$42,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetANNAPOLIS VALLEY - AUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$38,200 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAutism Society Ontario — C$37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPrecious Minds Support Services — C$32,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTHLANDS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY HAMILTON LAWSON MINISTRIES — C$30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetJANUS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILLOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASPERGER'S SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$29,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetAUTISM OF THE RMWB — C$28,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetNorth Fraser Therapeutic Riding — C$27,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHALEY STREET ADULT SERVICES CENTRE SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWinnipeg Optimal Health Early Years Sports Club Inc. (OHEYS) — C$25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSpectrum Intervention Group — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEVENTS FOR LIFE — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOTTAWA CARELTON DISTRICT — C$24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROCER 4 GOOD ABILITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFARM CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAusome Canada — C$20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriend 2 Friend Social Learning Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAutism Society of Cape Breton — C$20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOPEN SKY CO-OPERATIVE LTD — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSir Wilfred Laurier School Board — C$20,000 over 1y, 62% 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.

Goodlife Kids Foundat…Autism Speaks CanadaHarry E Foster Charit…The Catherine and Max…Els For Autism CanadaThe Georgina Foundati…Canada Post Community…The George Lunan Foun…TELUS Friendly Future…The Harold E. Ballard…Beutel goodman charit…Gore Mutual Insurance…
Goodlife Kids FoundationON16.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Goodlife Kids Foundation · Autism Speaks Canada · Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Els For Autism Canada · The Georgina Foundation · Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada · The George Lunan Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Harold E. Ballard Foundation · Beutel goodman charitable 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 56 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 foundations.

Source object 856010707:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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