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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Arrell Family Foundation

The foundation provides funding for research in education and healthcare and contributes to charities that are qualified donees under the income tax act (canada).

C$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$187k
  • C$50k–250k22 grants · C$2.1M
  • C$250k+8 grants · C$8.0M
C$75,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$185M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$2,200,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$2,000,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$1,576,400
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$500,000
ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$255,000
NOURISH LEADERSHIPC$250,000
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$250,000
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$200,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$200,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$200,000
THE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTIONC$150,000
FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$150,000
FARM TO CAFETERIA CANADA SOCIETYC$150,000
CANADIAN CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONC$100,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$43M · 35 repeat orgsC$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
12

Total granted

C$43M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$13M · revenue +18%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$7.4M · revenue +83%
  • CF
    CAMH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$6.2M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • BC
    BREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$500k · revenue -1%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue -47%
  • CO
    CANADIAN ORGANIC GROWERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · 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
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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2
Canadian Agri-Food Foundation
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3
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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4
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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5
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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6
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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7
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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8
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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9
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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10
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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11
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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12
Canadian Nutrition Society Food for Health Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Social Planning Council of Sudbury. 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

61 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. 61 of the 64 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$13,410,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$7,360,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$6,176,600 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,561,450 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,030,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNOURISH LEADERSHIP — C$1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — C$887,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$870,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$760,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S FOOD INSTITUTE — C$600,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$560,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE J W MCCONNELL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$485,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$468,600 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$450,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetL'ARCHE CANADA FOUNDATION — C$425,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetNEW CIRCLES COMMUNIUTY SERVICES — C$342,500 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$310,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL & MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities — C$215,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION - GAAGIGE ZAAGIBIGAA — C$207,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMUSLIM SOCIETY OF GUELPH — C$200,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA INC. — C$185,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$175,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetL'ARCHE TORONTO — C$150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetECOLOGICAL FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO — C$150,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetMichael J Fox Foundation — C$150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTION — C$150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFARM TO CAFETERIA CANADA SOCIETY — C$150,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetMONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN ORGANIC GROWERS INC — C$100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF SUDBURY — C$57,500 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetELEPHANT THOUGHTS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCLEAN ECONOMY FUND — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$50,000 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.

Burgundy Legacy Found…Giftpact Foundation I…Makeway FoundationToronto FoundationCanada GivesThe Jarislowsky Found…The J W McConnell Fam…Weston Family Foundat…The Brian and Joannah…The McLean FoundationUhn FoundationAqueduct Foundation
Burgundy Legacy FoundationON11.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Makeway Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · The Jarislowsky Foundation/La Fondation Jarislowsky · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Brian and Joannah Lawson Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Uhn Foundation · Aqueduct 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 64 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 advancing education.

Source object 872388079:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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