Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Williams Wilson Sherport Foundation
The charity assessed identified researched and pursued charitable initiatives in alignment with charitable objectives resulting in charitable donations to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$11k
- C$10k–50k13 grants · C$312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP KAWARTHA INCORPORATED | C$40,000 |
| RENASCENT FOUNDATION | C$30,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY CANADA | C$30,000 |
| START 2 FINISH | C$28,000 |
| MEDICAL MINISTRY CANADA INC | C$28,000 |
| STEPSTONES FOR YOUTH | C$25,000 |
| GILLIAN'S PLACE | C$25,000 |
| THE DARLING HOME FOR KIDS | C$24,000 |
| PERCH FOR WOMEN | C$24,000 |
| RAY OF HOPE INC | C$20,000 |
| ATTCH NIAGARA | C$15,000 |
| BATA SHOE MUSEUM FOUNDATION | C$12,000 |
| DUKE OF EDIN'S INT'L AWARD | C$11,000 |
| OAKVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | C$7,063 |
| HOPE HOUSE GUELPH | C$4,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.
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
- CKCAMP KAWARTHA INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · C$280k · revenue +23%
- RFRENASCENT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$230k · revenue +68%
- MMMEDICAL MINISTRY CANADA INC8× · 2017–2024 · C$203k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SStart2Finishone grant, 2017 · C$25k
- SCSCOUTS CANADAone grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -96%
- SJST. JUDEÈS ANGLICAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…
OBC delivers experiential education programs that cultivate resilience leadership connections and compassion through inspiring journeys of self discovery in the natural world. The majority of our programs take place while travelling…
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…
At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…
Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…
YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…
Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…
Reach for the rainbow (REACH) is a regional navigation system and accessibility partner to 36 programs and 70 sites in Ontario. We help our program delivery partners remove physical barriers to participants' inclusion in recreational…
ArtHouse is a Halton-based charitable organization that offers free programs to vulnerable children and youth from 7-17 most particularly to individuals from families who may not have access to arts-related activities. Since 2009 Arthouse…
Boost is a creative community response to child abuse investigations. A partnership among local community and government agencies it brings together all professionals involved in child abuse cases under one roof for a coordinated…
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Toronto provides a range of family-centred services for families with a seriously ill or injured child while they receive medical care. Our programs include an 81-room House in downtown Toronto and…
LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is The Bata Shoe Museum Foundation / Fondation MusÉE De La Chaussure Bata. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 26 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CAMP KAWARTHA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RENASCENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hannah House Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MINISTRY CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds START 2 FINISH ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY CANADA ↗
- Who funds SKETCHERS WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELSS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BATA SHOE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPSTONES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds RAY OF HOPE INC. ↗
- Who funds GILLIAN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds OAKVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KERR STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DUKE OF EDIN'S INT'L AWARD ↗
- Who funds THE DARLING HOME FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA VICTIM CRISIS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds ATTCH NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds SCOUTS CANADA ↗
- Who funds ST. JUDEÈS ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD YOUNG CANADIANS CHALLENGE (ONTARIO ↗
- Who funds ERIN OAK KIDS CDA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE GUELPH ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Burlington Community Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The Guelph Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · The Blg Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen 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.