Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Aston Family Foundation
The ASTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is to generally support charities working in the following areass: mental illness in ontario environmental charities in canada homelessness services in toronto youth shelters in toronto and education in ontario.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k18 grants · C$49k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALKABOUT FARMS | C$39,600 |
| FRED VICTOR | C$15,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | C$13,200 |
| THE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE | C$12,200 |
| YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER | C$10,000 |
| HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS H.S. | C$10,000 |
| WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | C$7,300 |
| CANADIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | C$7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$5,000 |
| TAKE A HIKE | C$2,500 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | C$2,500 |
| STELLAS PLACE | C$2,500 |
| TEMMY LATNER CENTRE | C$2,500 |
| METROPOLITAN CHURCH | C$2,500 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS | C$2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 64% of grant dollars (C$397k). The 36% that went abroad (C$220k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 36% of all-years giving (C$220k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 15 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$48k 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
- CLCOMMUNITY LIVING3× · 2019–2021 · C$85k · revenue +28%
- WFWALKABOUT FARMS2× · 2023–2024 · C$75k · revenue +9% · 30% of their budget
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE7× · 2017–2024 · C$55k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TPToronto Parks & Treesone grant, 2017 · C$68k · revenue -100%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$18k
- CLCOMMUNITY LIVINGone grant, 2019 · C$10k
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…
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…
Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto
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…
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…
The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.
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…
The York Centre provides a range of treatment and intervention mental health related services for children, youth, and families who live in York Region. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team based upon a comprehensive approach…
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…
Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…
North York Community House (NYCH) is an award-winning dynamic multi-serviceneighbourhood centre that has been working with residents in under-resourced andlow-income neighbourhoods of northwest Toronto for over 30 years. We are committed…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighbourhood Group Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Highlands Summer Festival. 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 50 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 COMMUNITY LIVING ↗
- Who funds WALKABOUT FARMS ↗
- Who funds Toronto Parks & Trees ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HIGH PARK NATURE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds The Neighbourhood Group ↗
- Who funds THE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Eva's Rec Program ↗
- Who funds AMICIC CAMPTING ↗
- Who funds 360 Kids ↗
- Who funds YORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE ONTARIO ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds TDSB ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS CUMMER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CO DEVELOPMENT CANADA ↗
- Who funds TEMMY LATNER CENTRE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RUBY ↗
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 · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The McLean Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The D.H. Gordon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Hodgson Family Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The Toronto Star Children's Charities
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.