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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Bealight Foundation

Bealight Foundation makes grants to organizations that foster social entrepreneurship or to organizations that are led by outstanding social entrepreneurs.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$830k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$175k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$830k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Learning Enrichment FoundationC$830,000
Impakt FoundationC$25,000
McGill UniversityC$25,000
One Voice One TeamC$20,000
We Are YoungC$20,000
KBF CanadaC$14,634
Ashoka CanadaC$10,000
Plan International CanadaC$10,000
United Way TorontoC$10,000
Duke of Edinburgh's International AwardC$10,000
Coady International InstituteC$10,000
Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchC$10,000
Canadian Athletes Fund Inc.C$10,000
Trinity CollegeC$5,000
Sanctuary TorontoC$5,000
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$5.5M · 35 repeat orgsC$264k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
34

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+22%

Still filing today

94%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$53k 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

  • LE
    Learning Enrichment Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +32%
  • CF
    CAMH Foundation
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$112k · revenue +99%
  • KC
    KBF Canada
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$103k · revenue ×39

Funded once

  • CS
    Canvas Social Value Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue -89%
  • SP
    STELLA'S PLACE
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +12%
  • TF
    Toronto Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +204%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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5
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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6
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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7
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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8
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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9
Venture for Canada Fellowship Institute

Venture for Canada is a charity that recruits trains and supports youth to work at startups with the mission of fostering entrepreneurship and education. The organization organizes training camps provides ongoing training/support over…

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10
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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11
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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12
Canadian Career Development Foundation/Fondation Canadienne Pour L'avancement De La Carrire

Ccdf works to strengthen the field of career development through evidence-based research competency-based training of career practitioners/educators the development of innovative new approaches to service delivery and the promotion of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Gedi Village 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

71 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. 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
48/71
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 budgetLearning Enrichment Foundation — C$1,690,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCAMH Foundation — C$112,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKBF Canada — C$102,593 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCoady International Institue — C$100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$95,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice One Team — C$85,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY TORONTO — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Institute for Advanced Research — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA CANADA — C$80,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetOutward Bound Canada — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWe Are Young — C$45,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSanctuary Toronto — C$42,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSoulpepper Theatre Company — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFort York Food Bank — C$35,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCIVIX — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Boundless School — C$30,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJournalists for Human Rights — C$26,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCanvas Social Value Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetImpakt Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTCS Foundation — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMcGill University — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOCAD — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDuke of Edinburgh's International Award — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSleeping Children Around the World — C$20,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGrandTrees — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPhilanthrophic Foundations Canada — C$19,344 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTides — C$17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMcMichael Canadian Art Collection — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Right Watch — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$10,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWindermere United Church — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetClassroom Connections Learning Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetArtscape — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Intelligence — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPeacebuilders Canada — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArthritis Research Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship in Action — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTides Canada Initiative Society-East Scarborough Storefront — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMelly's Workplace — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity International Canada — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRomero House — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETES FOR AFRICA — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds Learning Enrichment Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAMH Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KBF Canada ↗
  • Who funds Coady International Institue ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA ↗
  • Who funds One Voice One Team ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Outward Bound Canada ↗
  • Who funds We Are Young ↗
  • Who funds Sanctuary Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Soulpepper Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds Fort York Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds CIVIX ↗
  • Who funds The Boundless School ↗
  • Who funds Journalists for Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds Canvas Social Value Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Impakt Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STELLA'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds TCS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds McGill University ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Club ↗
  • Who funds OCAD ↗
  • Who funds Duke of Edinburgh's International Award ↗
  • Who funds Sleeping Children Around the World ↗
  • Who funds GrandTrees ↗
  • Who funds Philanthrophic Foundations Canada ↗
  • Who funds Tides ↗
  • Who funds McMichael Canadian Art Collection ↗
  • Who funds Human Right Watch ↗
  • Who funds Sick Kids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Windermere United Church ↗
  • Who funds Classroom Connections Learning Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Artscape ↗
  • Who funds Charity Intelligence ↗
  • Who funds Peacebuilders Canada ↗

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 FoundationThe McLean FoundationJackman FoundationThe George Cedric Met…R. Howard Webster Fou…The J W McConnell Fam…Hamilton Community Fo…Canada GivesWeston Family Foundat…La Fondation Emmanuel…The Henry White Kinne…Jewish Foundation of …
Toronto FoundationON22.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Hamilton Community Foundation · Canada Gives · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

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 2024-12-31, 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 868640970:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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