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North York, ON · Private foundation

Blue Crane Charitable Foundation

The Blue Crane Charitable Foundation does not run its own programs instead makes yearly contributions to qualified donees and intermediaries.

C$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNOR CLARK & LUNN FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN RUGBY CLUBC$20,000
OUTWARD BOUND CANADAC$15,000
THE TOWNSHIPS PROJECTC$10,000
CRESCENT SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS (REVELSTOKE) SOCIETYC$5,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$5,000
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCILC$5,000
HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATIONC$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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$130k · 4 repeat orgsC$115k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

C$130k
C$15k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$85k · revenue +14%
  • OB
    OUTWARD BOUND CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$25k · revenue -21%
  • HB
    HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k

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
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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2
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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3
The Canadian Foundation for Cooperation and Development

In 2024 the charity made grants for a total of 266 889 to registered charities within canada.

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4
Uwc (Toronto) Foundation

To provide scholarships and financial awards to students with financial need.

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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6
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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7
Childhood for Children Foundation

We fund other canadian registered charities whose programs advance the objectives of the childhood for children foundation.

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8
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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9
Tim Horton Children's Foundation Inc.

The Tim Horton Children's Foundation is committed to empowering youth from low-income households through Tim Horton camp experiences. Camp experiences are intentionally designed to foster the strengths within youth and provide…

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10
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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11
Canada Cycles for Kids

Since 2002 canada cycles for kids has organized fund raising bicycle tours to help fund programs and equipment for canadian charities that helps sick children and their families

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12
The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants

The Foundation granted wishes to children suffering from high risk life threatening illnesses. The foundation also funds research and provides grants to health care facilities in Canada that either research diseases that particularly…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Prince Edward County Arts Council. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
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 budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNOR CLARK & LUNN FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWNSHIPS PROJECT — C$10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE CANADIAN-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESCENT SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS (REVELSTOKE) SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Charitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON5.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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 12 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 749334942:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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