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Kitchener, ON · Public foundation

Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation

Rotary Waterloo provides funds for charities in Kitchener/Waterloo area and other charities including: - healthcare - physically & developmentally challenged children - literacy - food security We also contribute to Rotary International Foundation - Polio Plus Worldwide.

C$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$37k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$65k
C$3,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kids Ability FoundationC$31,850
The Working CentreC$18,000
Supportive Housing of WaterlooC$15,000
Hashtag HopeC$5,000
Keep Your Head Up FoundationC$4,000
Rotary Project Partnership (Kitchener-Conestoga IAF)C$3,250
LutherwoodC$3,000
Autism Dog Services IncC$3,000
Seeds of DiversityC$3,000
KidsSport Kitchener WaterlooC$2,800
National Service Dogs TrainingC$2,500
Toasty Toes (Waterloo Region Community Foundation)C$2,500
Rotary Foundation (Canada)C$2,000
Adventure4ChangeC$1,500
Conrad Grabel FundC$1,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$457k · 17 repeat orgsC$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

C$457k
C$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-10%

Still filing today

88%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SH
    Supportive Housing of Waterloo
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$46k · revenue +124%
  • TW
    The Working Centre
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$42k · revenue +215%
  • TR
    THE ROTARY FOUNDATION (CANADA)
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$28k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • FC
    Fostering Communication
    one grant, 2017 · C$8k · revenue -96% · 70% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k
  • KR
    Kitchener Rotary Peace Scholarship
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -32%

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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United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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2
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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3
Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation

Rotary Waterloo provides funds for charities in Kitchener/Waterloo area and other charities including: - healthcare - physically & developmentally challenged children - literacy - food security We also contribute to Rotary International…

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4
Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region

1. increase awareness of the value of volunteering - we promote educate and advocate for volunteerism; we foster a culture of volunteerism within waterloo region. 2. provide easy access for community members to volunteer / participate - we…

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5
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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6
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

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

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7
Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region

Community mediation and dialogue services sexual harm services youth and adult serious crime dialogue Stride services supporting incarcerated women family dialogues elder dialogue and support services. Homesharing Justice Centre - creating…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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9
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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10
Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health

Children's Mental Health Programs including Section 23 School FASD Treatment Program Trauma Treatment Intensive Community Services Early Intervention School Based Programs Respite Learning Assessments and Resources. Individual Couple…

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11
Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council

The work of the WRSPC focuses on four pillars: Building a Sense of Community Engaging Populations of Priority Advancing Organizational Capacity and Growing Provincial and National Reach. We provide the following programs within three key…

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12
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Keep Your Head Up 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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
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 budgetSupportive Housing of Waterloo — C$46,469 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Working Centre — C$42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$28,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHashtag Hope — C$10,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF FRIENDSHP — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Waterloo — C$8,001 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKeep Your Head Up Foundation — C$8,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFostering Communication — C$8,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetWomen's Crisis Shelters of Waterloo — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeeds of Diversity — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Sexual Assault Support Center — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKitchener Rotary Peace Scholarship — C$5,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRyerson University (Lisa Rae Bursary) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToasty Toes (Waterloo Region Community Foundation) — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Service Dogs Training — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEducation 4 Change — C$4,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRotary Project Partnership (Kitchener-Conestoga IAF) — C$3,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAutism Dog Services Inc — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLutherwood — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpectrum — C$2,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStrong Start — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDiabetes Canada — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConrad Grabel Fund — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Tillsonburg — C$1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAdventure4Change — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Kitchener-Conestoga R…Astley Family Foundat…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…Gore Mutual Insurance…The Cloverleaf Founda…Abundance CanadaCambridge & North Dum…The Cowan FoundationLondon Community Foun…The Ross and Doris Di…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON17× affinity14 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 · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · Astley Family Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · The Cloverleaf Foundation · Abundance Canada · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · The Cowan Foundation · London Community Foundation · The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable 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 35 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 2024-06-30, 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 891675647:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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