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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

BenefAction Foundation

The charity solicits donations for the purpose of establishing funds and planned giving programs which in turn provide gifts to qualified donees.

C$81M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3,048
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$18M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 3048 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2063 grants · C$5.7M
  • C$10k–50k737 grants · C$14M
  • C$50k–250k210 grants · C$19M
  • C$250k+38 grants · C$42M
C$4,600
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$796M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada)C$17,668,000
Hospital for Sick Children FoundationC$3,288,340
The King's UniversityC$2,000,000
Town of VirdenC$1,500,000
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGillC$1,287,798
The Ottawa Hospital FoundationC$1,165,236
Organisation de Soutien des Moniales Orthodoxes du uébecC$1,038,928
United Way of Greater TorontoC$950,690
Canada GivesC$849,178
Princess Margaret Cancer FoundationC$810,890
Daily Bread Food BankC$658,766
Fredericton Community Services IncC$619,572
The Crystal Ridge Dream CenterC$604,710
Doctors Without Borders CanadaC$572,075
Hope International Development AgencyC$519,500
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Which regions its grants reach

Ontario
C$4.3M
British Columbia
C$3.9M
Alberta
C$2.0M
Quebec
C$776k
Nova Scotia
C$308k
New Brunswick
C$177k
Prince Edward Island
C$49k
Saskatchewan
C$20k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$20k
Manitoba
C$19k
How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$232M · 1729 repeat orgsC$48M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

1729 repeat relationships: 1434 still active in FY2024, 295 since wound down; 119 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1729
152

Total granted

C$232M
C$40M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • LM
    Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$20M · revenue +400% · 42% of their budget
  • HF
    Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.9M · revenue +30%
  • TO
    The Ottawa Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$3.3M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • WF
    Walsh Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$17M · revenue +315%
  • TT
    The Tetelestai Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$4.2M · 97% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FIRSTLINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$3.0M · revenue +13% · 37% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Its field
03the grantee network

1938 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1938 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

96
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
471
Early backer (in before they grew)
1913/1938
Grantees still filing
1415/1938
Grew since first funded

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLingyen Mountain Temple (Canada): C$19,998,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetThe King's University: C$8,103,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetHospital for Sick Children Foundation: C$4,868,478 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Tetelestai Foundation: C$4,247,761 over 1y, 97% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto: C$3,819,908 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetThe Ottawa Hospital Foundation: C$3,281,194 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FIRSTLINE FOUNDATION: C$2,995,096 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE MUN AND CHA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: C$2,813,750 over 1y, 94% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation: C$2,666,309 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetToronto Symphony: C$2,664,514 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetThe Winged Achene Foundation: C$2,614,960 over 1y, 50% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank: C$2,495,117 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetANDREW AND LESLIE HOFFMAN FAMILY FND: C$2,341,823 over 1y, 90% of budgetVernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation: C$2,285,450 over 5y, 34% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY: C$2,099,728 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAQUEDUCT FOUNDATION: C$2,086,968 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSalvation Army of Canada: C$2,077,749 over 8y, 93% of budgetThe Crystal Ridge Dream Center: C$2,049,652 over 4y, 87% of budgetThe Crystal Ridge Dream Center: C$2,022,690 over 2y, 32% of budgetFUYANG FUTURE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: C$2,011,189 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA: C$1,890,198 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSinai Health Foundation: C$1,846,886 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCHIMP - CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA): C$1,785,423 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOperation Smile Canada Foundation: C$1,593,081 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetCanada's National Ballet School: C$1,521,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHope International Development Agency: C$1,518,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetRoyal Conservatory of Music: C$1,479,596 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetThe Calgary Foundation: C$1,364,874 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NORTHUMBERLAND: C$1,356,665 over 8y, 16% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada: C$1,340,345 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill: C$1,319,798 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetGO LE GRAND DEFI INC.: C$1,319,136 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetProject Orbis International Inc: C$1,300,500 over 3y, 40% of budgetMcMaster University: C$1,206,568 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$1,162,762 over 8y, 14% of budgetMEADOWLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH: C$1,154,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetUNIVERSITY OD CALGARY: C$1,092,649 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBryson Animal Aid Charitable Foundation: C$1,044,863 over 2y, 12% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary And Area: C$1,039,830 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOrganisation de Soutien des Moniales Orthodoxes du uébec: C$1,038,928 over 1y, 87% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation: C$1,024,593 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE MISSION: C$1,011,564 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetRita and Rudy Mion Family Foundation: C$1,000,097 over 1y, 100% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH: C$977,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYork University: C$964,079 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION: C$930,595 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNAVIGATORS OF CANADA: C$904,750 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto: C$875,316 over 8y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada) ↗
  • Who funds Walsh Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The King's University ↗
  • Who funds Hospital for Sick Children Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Tetelestai Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Toronto ↗
  • Who funds The Ottawa Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRSTLINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MUN AND CHA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Symphony ↗
  • Who funds The Winged Achene Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Daily Bread Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW AND LESLIE HOFFMAN FAMILY FND ↗
  • Who funds Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AQUEDUCT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army of Canada ↗
  • Who funds The Crystal Ridge Dream Center ↗
  • Who funds The Crystal Ridge Dream Center ↗
  • Who funds FUYANG FUTURE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Sinai Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHIMP - CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA) ↗
  • Who funds Operation Smile Canada Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canada's National Ballet School ↗
  • Who funds Hope International Development Agency ↗
  • Who funds Royal Conservatory of Music ↗
  • Who funds The Calgary Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE NORTHUMBERLAND ↗
  • Who funds The Nature Conservancy of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill ↗
  • Who funds GO LE GRAND DEFI INC. ↗
  • Who funds Project Orbis International Inc ↗
  • Who funds McMaster University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OD CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds Bryson Animal Aid Charitable Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Burgundy Legacy Found…Airlie FoundationGluskin Sheff Foundat…Davies Ward Phillips …Place2Give FoundationViewpoint FoundationMelton FoundationBrookfield Partners F…St Paul's Anglican Ch…Nick & Lynn Ross Char…Jewish Community Foun…Fondation Sandra Schm…
Burgundy Legacy FoundationON12.7× affinity163 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Airlie Foundation · Gluskin Sheff Foundation for Philanthropy · Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Foundation / Fondation de Davis Ward Phillips & Vineberg · Place2Give Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Melton Foundation · Brookfield Partners Foundation · St Paul's Anglican Church · Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 804213759:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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