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Waterdown, ON · Private foundation

William Voortman Fund

To receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom to charitable organizations which are also registered charities under the income tax act.

C$850k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
2
Regions reached
C$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$365k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$485k
C$35,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$53
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHALOM MANOR LONG TERM CAREC$109,500
HAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGHC$75,000
MISSION AVIATION OF CANADAC$50,000
INDWELLC$50,000
CAMBRIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$50,000
CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$50,000
WEST HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCHC$50,000
CALVARY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHC$50,000
JOHN KNOX CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$35,000
CONVOSC$35,000
BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCHC$35,000
GRIMSBY LIFE CENTERC$35,000
SMITHVILLE CHRISTIAN HIGHC$35,000
TORONTO DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$35,000
CAIRN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$30,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.1M · 9 repeat orgsC$814k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

C$8.1M
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$800k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’22
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
    REDEEMER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$2.7M · revenue +56%
  • C
    CARDUS
    2× · 2017–2020 · C$2.6M · revenue +48% · 53% of their budget
  • I
    INDWELL
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$2.1M · revenue +411%

Funded once

  • IT
    International Teams
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue -42%
  • SO
    Southwestern Ontario YFC/Youth Unlimitedgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +27%
  • RG
    RESONATE GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +27%

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
Niagara Reformed Christian Education Association

We operate a Christian Elementary (K-8) and Secondary (9-12) school providing education in all academic subject areas in a distinctly reformed perspective.

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2
Christian Mission Schools of Canada

Operates a christian day school and promotes christian education

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3
Association for Christian Schooling in Calgary South

We offer christian education to children in kindergarten through grade 9

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4
Calvary Christian School Niagara

Calvary christian school niagara is dedicated to providing quality education in an atmosphere where the core curriculum meets and attempts to exceed the requirements as set forth by the ministry of education (ontario) and where the…

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5
Chatham Christian School

Operating a junior kindergarten to grade 12 day school in chatham ontario.

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6
Regina Christian School Association

Regina christian school association operates an independent school accredited by the saskatchewan ministry of education as an associated school of the regina public school board. the school offers programs from pre-school through grade 12.

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7
Timothy Christian School (Barrie)

Our charity runs a day school for grades JK through 8 where every subject is taught with a Christian perspective.

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8
Canadian Reformed School Society of London and District Inc.

Members of the Reformed churches in the London area have established Covenant Christian School operating Kindergarten through Grade 8 to assist parents in the fulfillment of covenant promises made at the baptism of their children. All…

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9
Kitchener-Waterloo Christian School Society

We provide and promote a Christ-centred education for children in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8.

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10
Kelowna Christian School

Operates a group 1 independent school in british columbia from preschool to grade 12. the purpose and mission of kcs is to educate equip and inspire our school community to become disciples of jesus who love and serve god and others. kcs…

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11
Calvin Christian School Society of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations

Provide education in our Christian schools based on biblical principles and morals in a safe and caring environment.

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12
The Calgary Society for Christian Education

CSCE provides Christian day school programming for an independent Preschool (ages 3 & 4) and Kindergarten through grade 12.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Indwell Community Homes. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY — C$2,680,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetCARDUS — C$2,580,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetINDWELL — C$2,080,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetSHALOM MANOR LONG TERM CARE — C$109,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY — C$95,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetHAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGH — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALVARY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH — C$50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWEST HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMISSION AVIATION OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRIMSBY LIFE CENTER — C$35,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSMITHVILLE CHRISTIAN HIGH — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJOHN KNOX CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAIRN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHUNDER BAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWorld Renew — C$26,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDU DEO MINISTRIES — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJAMES NORTH BAPTIST — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJARVIS COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWord & Deed — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBACK TO GOD HOUR — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Teams — C$6,691 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwestern Ontario YFC/Youth Unlimited — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESONATE GLOBAL — C$2,500 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.

Christian Stewardship…Christian School Foun…Link Charity Canada I…The John & Ellie Voor…Maranatha Christian R…Hagersville Community…The Hensen FoundationFruitland Christian R…Grace Christian Refor…Grace Community (Anca…Ebenezer Christian Re…Fragrance Foundation
Christian Stewardship ServicesON16.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Stewardship Services · Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc. · Link Charity Canada Inc · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of York · Hagersville Community Christian Reformed Church · The Hensen Foundation · Fruitland Christian Reformed Church · Grace Christian Reformed Church of Welland · Grace Community (Ancaster) Christian Reformed Church · Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church · Fragrance 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 31 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 2022-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 899003727:2022-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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