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North York, ON · Private foundation

Vamvakas Family Foundation

To provide funds to other registered charities with a primary emphasis on organizations that are faith-based charities that are involved in various programs that assist youth and children and educational programs.

C$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$12k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYVIEW GLEN CHURCHC$50,000
YOUNG LIFE OF CANADAC$35,200
THE TYNDALE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ONTARIO WATER CENTREC$5,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$3,528
THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$1,600
SCOTT MISSIONC$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$500
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$732k · 13 repeat orgsC$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

C$732k
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • BG
    BAYVIEW GLEN CHURCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$268k · revenue +36%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE OF CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$253k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$50k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$30k · revenue +34%
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +7%
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +64%

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.

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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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2
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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3
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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4
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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5
Tyndale University

Tyndale University is dedicated to the pursuit of truth to excellence in teaching learning and research for the enriching of mind heart and character to serve the church and the world for the glory of God. Ongoing programs: 1) To provide a…

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6
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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7
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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8
The Great Commission Foundation

The entity raises funds for other charities engaged in missionary work evangelism religious colleges and humanitarian aid they also raise funds for project expenses to conduct missionary work evangelism education and humanitarian aid. in…

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9
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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10
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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11
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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12
Imagine Canada

Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Its four Strategic Directions are to: energize the sector's voices; ensure the sector's relevance; influence the sector's environment;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restore Method of Care Canada and the most unlike its peers is Phil Hardy Beacon Hall 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

20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
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 budgetBAYVIEW GLEN CHURCH — C$267,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$253,475 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE CANADA — C$33,500 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTyndale Foundation — C$26,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$22,006 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO WATER CENTRE — C$17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Community Church — C$16,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PRINCES MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$6,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$2,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL — C$1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESWICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWillow Creek Canada — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHIL HARDY BEACON HALL FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.7% 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 of Greater…Charitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Greater TorontoON5.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 20 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 700842529:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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