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North York, ON · Private foundation

Acorn Seed Foundation

Receipt and maintenance of a fund all part thereof and the income thereof for charitable purposes and gifts to qualified donees.

C$258k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$8k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$250k
C$2,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMELESS CONNECT TORONTOC$50,000
FRED VICTORC$50,000
WANASAHC$50,000
THE READING PARTNERSHIPC$50,000
JUR-ED FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CANADA HELPSC$2,000
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$2,000
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADAC$1,000
PROGRESS PLACE REHABILITATION CENTRE (METROPOLITAN TORONTO)C$1,000
PAWSCANADAC$1,000
GOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE SOCIAL MINISTRIESC$1,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.0M · 12 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

C$1.0M
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TR
    THE READING PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$101k · revenue +37%
  • CH
    COUNTRY HERITAGE PARK / TORONTO BALCK FARMERS AND GROWERS CO
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$100k · revenue +14%
  • MT
    MAGGIE'S TORONTO SEX WORKERS ACTION PROJECT
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$100k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN TORONTO
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +6%
  • TH
    TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k
  • JF
    JAYU FESTIVAL INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -21%

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
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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2
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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3
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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4
Ywca Toronto

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…

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5
Strides Toronto Support Services

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…

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6
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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7
Prisoners With Hiv/Aids Support Action Network

Pasan provides case management and programming in support of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people who are living with or are at risk of acquiring hiv and hepatitis c and people who use drugs. programs include case management…

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8
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

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…

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9
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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10
Victim Services Toronto

1)victim crisis response: immediate on-site crisis/trauma counselling and practical assistance for victims of crime and/or tragic circumstances. program offered 24 hours a day-365 days a year. 2) high risk support services: safety services…

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11
Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses

The Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses is a coalition of first stage emergency shelters second stage housing organizations and community-based women organizations who work towards ending voilence against all women. The…

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12
Planned Parenthood of Toronto

Planned parenthood toronto is a fully accredited community health centre that provides primary and sexual health care services to youth between the ages of 13 and 29. ppt offers health promotion programming education training and research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Progress Place Rehabilitation Centre (Metropolitan Toronto) Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Paws Peoples Animal Welfare Society. 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

28 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. 28 of the 29 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)
27/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
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 budgetWANASAH — C$100,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetJUR-ED FOUNDATION — C$100,500 over 2y, 67% of budgetHOMELESS CONNECT TORONTO — C$100,500 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE READING PARTNERSHIP — C$100,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOUNTRY HERITAGE PARK / TORONTO BALCK FARMERS AND GROWERS CO — C$100,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMAGGIE'S TORONTO SEX WORKERS ACTION PROJECT — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO / BLACK CREEK COMMUNITY FARM — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHUNDER WOMEN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetESHKINIGIK NAADWECHIGEGAMIG AABIISH GAA BINIJBAAYING - ENAG — C$100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAYU FESTIVAL INC. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET HEALTH COMMUNITY NURSING FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS SUCCESS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE NORTH ORG NEWMARKET — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RUBY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESS PLACE REHABILITATION CENTRE (METROPOLITAN TORONTO) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNBX*INTERVALHOUSE HAMILTON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE SOCIAL MINISTRIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY SOCIETY OF TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY SHARE FOOD BANK INC. — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Toronto FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Ontario Realtors Care…Mlse FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…United Way Golden Hor…Canada GivesAqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Jewish Foundation of …Second Harvest Canada…Canadian Women's Foun…
Toronto FoundationON12.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Mlse Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes

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 29 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 731980736:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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