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London, ON · Private foundation

Woco Foundation

The foundation grants charitable donations to registered charities for support in the areas of education and research in universities and colleges health community services for the charitable sector and places of religious worship.

C$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k25 grants · C$410k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.0M
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$230k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSTIY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$2,000,000
BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF LONDON FOUNDATIONC$40,000
MERRYMOUNT CHILDRENS CENTREC$30,000
REGINA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTREC$20,000
LONDON FANSHAWE SYMPHONIC CHORUSC$20,000
LONDON ABUSED WOMEN'S CENTREC$20,000
LONDON AND AREA FOOD BANK INCC$20,000
GORDON JEFFERY MUSIC FOUNDATION - LONDON CONCERT SERIESC$20,000
COVENANT HOUSE TORONTOC$20,000
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$20,000
MUSEUM LONDONC$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF EDMONTON &C$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SASKATOONC$20,000
TRELLIS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$20,000
THE CATHOLIC COLLEGE OF REGINA CAMPION COLLEGEC$10,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 65 repeat orgsC$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
8

Total granted

C$12M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

94%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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 UNIVERSTIY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$8.3M · revenue +23%
  • LC
    LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$550k · revenue +363%
  • UO
    University of Montreal (Faculty of Medicine) - Wolfe Profess
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$220k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHWANgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$938k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    University of Cambridge - Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fellowsh
    one grant, 2017 · C$602k
  • SM
    ST.THOMAS MORE COLLEGE(UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN)
    one grant, 2018 · C$52k · revenue +19%

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
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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2
United Way of Saskatoon and Area

United Way mission is to improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action. United Way invests resources into programs services and community building activities that have an emphasis on addressing…

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3
Ymca Canada

The YMCA is a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA is committed to ensuring…

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4
Regina Symphony Orchestra Inc.

The regina symphony orchestra (rso) the largest music organization in the province of saskatchewan enriches life through live orchestral music and music education and outreach for 75 000 people throughout southern saskatchewan. in addition…

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5
Westminster College Foundation

Westminster College Foundation provides grants to registered charitable organizations in London Middlesex and Elgin counties which support the following impact areas: - Youth and Seniors well-being and mental health - Youth and Seniors…

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6
Ivey Business School Foundation

Ivey Business School Foundation operates facilities to support educational programs and research for the Ivey Business School and Western University. Facilities are maintained in two Ontario locations: London and Toronto. The Foundation…

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7
Ymca of Greater Toronto

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.…

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8
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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9
Ymca of London Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund and other property and to apply from time to time the income drived for the benefits of or to enhance or improve the services provided by the facilities of the ymca of southwestern ontario. specifically…

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10
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Canada
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11
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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12
The Students' Association of Mount Royal University

During the year the Students' Association of Mount Royal University engaged 96 volunteers who together contributed 1 699 volunteer hours and facilitated the following charitable programs: Food security programs: food bank access free…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatoon Family Young Men's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Farley 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

69 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. 69 of the 74 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
54/69
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 budgetTHE UNIVERSTIY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$8,287,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHWAN — C$937,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Montreal (Faculty of Medicine) - Wolfe Profess — C$220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada - Endowment Fund — C$190,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF LONDON FOUNDATION — C$160,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBrescia University College - Scholarships — C$120,024 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMERRYMOUNT CHILDRENS CENTRE — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCampion College (University of Regina) - Scholarships — C$92,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLONDON FANSHAWE SYMPHONIC CHORUS — C$90,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetLONDON ABUSED WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$80,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWELLSPRING LONDON & REGION — C$80,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE - TORONTO — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Saskatoon — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Salvation Army - GCC Saskatoon — C$80,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetThe Royal Ontario Museum Foundation — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SASKATOON — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREGINA SENIOR CITIZENS — C$80,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - REGINA — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF EDMONTON & — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE LONDON — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGORDON JEFREY MUSIC FOUNDATION-LONDON CONCERT SERIES — C$80,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetYMCA of Edmonton - Strong Kids Annual Campaign — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM LONDON — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRhodes Scholarships in Canada - Scholarships — C$80,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSASKATOON SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC — C$80,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetLONDON AND AREA FOOD BANK INC — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST.THOMAS MORE COLLEGE(UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN) — C$52,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way - London & Middlesex — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL SOCIAL SERVICES — C$45,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetYMCA OF MOOSE JAW INC. — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY INTER - FAITH FOOD BANK — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES EDUCATION TRUST — C$40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMOOSE JAW AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC — C$40,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetEDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATION - EDMONTON FOOD BANK — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLONDON COMMUNITY DENTAL ALLIANCE-THE WRIGHT CLINIC — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL ONTARIO REGIONAL COUNCIL — C$40,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF REGINA — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRELLIS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSoulpepper Theatre Company - Toronto — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE LONDON FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSaskatoon Community Foundation — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUTH BORDERS CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatoon Food Bank Incorporated — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREGINA & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC. — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

London Community Foun…Mowbray and Doris Sif…United Way Elgin Midd…The Walter J Blackbur…The London Police Ass…The Jack and Barbara …Westminster College F…The Lawson FoundationCongregation of the S…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVI…Smith Family Foundati…Good Foundation Inc.
London Community FoundationON20× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: London Community Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · United Way Elgin Middlesex · The Walter J Blackburn Foundation · The London Police Association Charity Fund · The Jack and Barbara Hay Foundation · Westminster College Foundation · The Lawson Foundation · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (London) · Smith Family Foundation · Good Foundation Inc.

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 74 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 2024-05-31, 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 868663220:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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