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Guelph, ON · Private foundation

W.C.Wood Foundation

The W.C.

C$320k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$300k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA of Three RiversC$150,000
Guelph Humane SocietyC$100,000
Sick Kids FoundationC$50,000
Children's Foundation of Guelph and WellingtonC$20,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 14 repeat orgsC$675k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

C$17M
C$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$200k 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

  • TU
    The University of Western Ontario
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$7.2M · revenue +29%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$7.1M · revenue +18%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$1.6M · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TF
    The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital
    one grant, 2019 · C$375k
  • AN
    Art Not Shame
    one grant, 2023 · C$65k · revenue +2%
  • LH
    LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +123%

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
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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2
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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3
The Guelph Community Foundation

The guelph community foundation and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner. grants are disbursed to qualified donees…

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4
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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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
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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7
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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8
Guysborough Memorial Hospital Foundation

Purchase hospital equipment and fund programs

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9
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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10
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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11
St Joseph's Health Care Foundation of London

SJHC Foundation continues to operate a fully integrated fundraising program which utilizes the following methods: direct mail special events gaming planned gifts commemorative giving and personal solicitation (major gifts). The SJHC…

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12
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Youth Organization. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
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 budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$7,150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$7,060,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$1,627,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetGuelph Humane Society — C$500,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSt. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation Guelph — C$250,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetGroves Memorial Community Hospital Foundation — C$200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHamilton Health Sciences Foundation — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSt. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Foundation — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Three Rivers — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrand River Conservation Foundation — C$120,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetChildren's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington — C$90,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Nightingale Centre — C$80,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetArt Not Shame — C$65,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCatholic Youth Organization — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRACELET OF HOPE — C$40,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Wellington — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH AND PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 Guelph Community …United Way Community …United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Region Commu…Lj Pearson FoundationRotary Club of Guelph…Charitable Gift Funds…The Cowan FoundationAbundance CanadaGore Mutual Insurance…Ontario Credit Union …J.P. Bickell Foundati…
The Guelph Community FoundationON16.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Guelph Community Foundation · United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Lj Pearson Foundation · Rotary Club of Guelph South Charitable Foundation Inc. · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · The Cowan Foundation · Abundance Canada · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Ontario Credit Union Foundation · J.P. Bickell 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 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 846722668:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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