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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

C$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$650
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$100
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
My Tribute GiftC$650
Grand River Hospital FoundationC$550
Sunnyside FoundationC$250
BRUCE PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$103
Princess Margaret Cancer FoundationC$100
Windsor Regional Hospital FoundationC$100
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALSC$100
CAMH FoundationC$100
Hospice WellingtonC$100
Alzheimer SocietyC$100
Nature Conservancy of CanadaC$50
CanadaHelpsC$50
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 8 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
23

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$903 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • RU
    Renison University College
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$1.2M · revenue +11%
  • MT
    My Tribute Gift
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$2k · revenue +48%
  • SJ
    St. John Ambulance
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$1k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SV
    Shad Valley Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +174%
  • CS
    Canadian Society of Microbiologists
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k
  • TF
    Toronto Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +204%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
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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3
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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4
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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5
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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7
Women's College Hospital Foundation

Women's college hospital foundation raises funds to support the building equipment research and education needs of women's college hospital ontario's first and only independent academic ambulatory care hospital with a primary focus on…

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8
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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9
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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10
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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11
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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12
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kidney Foundation of Canada / La Fondation Canadienne Du Rein and the most unlike its peers is My Tribute Gift Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 39 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRenison University College — C$1,200,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetShad Valley International — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Tribute Gift — C$1,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt. John Ambulance — C$1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomewood Research Institute — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand River Hospital Foundation — C$696 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps CanaDon — C$500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunnyside Foundation — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY WATERLOO WELLINGTON — C$250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION ALINE LETENDRE — C$225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRay of Hope — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISAARD AND INNISFREE HOSPICE — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S SOCIETY SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRight to Play International — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Engineering Memorial Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association Volunteer — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Wellington — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Donkey Sanctuary of Canada — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindsor Regional Hospital Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOntario College of Art & Design — C$92 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAUGEEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$76 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED CHURCH DOWNTOWN MISSION OF WINDSOR INC. — C$51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$50 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…Private Giving Founda…The Guelph Community …Strategic Charitable …Canada GivesCanada Donates Inc.Abundance CanadaAqueduct FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ontario Power Generat…Mowbray and Doris Sif…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON10.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Private Giving Foundation · The Guelph Community Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Canada Donates Inc. · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Community Foundation Grey Bruce · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family 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 39 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 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 119260685:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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