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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Avanti Foundation

To receive and maintain funds and apply all or part of the principal and income to qualified donees as identified in subsection 149.1(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

C$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$610k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$4.8M
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Neighbourhood Land TrustC$4,000,000
Canadian Red CrossC$829,078
Hamilton Health Sciences FoundationC$150,000
3858278 Canada FoundationC$150,000
United Way of Greater TorontoC$100,000
The WoodGreen FoundationC$85,000
Canadian Centre Policy AlternativesC$75,000
St. Michael's Hospital FoundationC$50,000
UHN FoundationC$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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 8 repeat orgsC$4.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • HH
    Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$417k · revenue +18%
  • WU
    WESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES INC.
    3× · 2018–2023 · C$335k · revenue +99%
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Toronto
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$200k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IJ
    Investigative Journalism Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +40%
  • MU
    Memorial University of Newfoundland
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%

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.

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University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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2
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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3
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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4
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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5
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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6
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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7
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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8
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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9
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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10
West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation

West park healthcare centre foundation (wphcf) has been an integral partner with west park healthcare centre (wphc) for more than four decades. wphcf has partnered with wphc to expand programs and facilities support clinical research and…

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11
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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12
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uhn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Memorial University of Newfoundland. 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

14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
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 budgetThe Neighbourhood Land Trust — C$4,000,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,018,986 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHamilton Health Sciences Foundation — C$417,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES INC. — C$335,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget3858278 Canada Foundation — C$150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRyerson University — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe WoodGreen Foundation — C$85,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEli's place Residential Treastment and Transition Center — C$70,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetInvestigative Journalism Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUHN Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial University of Newfoundland — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FoundationAqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Toronto FoundationON7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 14 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 702275520:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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