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Boland Foundation

BOLAND FOUNDATION makes donations to a wide variety of qualified charities as directed by its board of directors

C$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$78k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCOTT MISSIONC$10,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS KINGSTON FOUNDATIONC$5,000
WATER FIRSTC$5,000
ALL SAINTS CHURCH COMMUNITY CENTREC$5,000
MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETYC$5,000
SAINT LUKE'S UNITED CHURCHC$5,000
TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTREC$5,000
OUT OF THE COLD FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE WAR AMPSC$5,000
SECOND HARVESTC$5,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$5,000
TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$3,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE OF HAMILTONC$3,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$326k · 27 repeat orgsC$117k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
33

Total granted

C$326k
C$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$38k 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

  • SM
    SCOTT MISSION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$45k · revenue +215%
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$39k · revenue +315%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$31k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • HS
    HEALTH SCIENCES NORTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +298%
  • SW
    SEDNA WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +0%
  • SC
    SUDBURY-MANITOULIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +27%

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
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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2
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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3
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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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
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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6
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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7
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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8
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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9
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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10
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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11
Casey House Foundation

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…

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12
Camp Toronto Triple Threat Bursary Fund

The charity supports needy chldren in downtown toronto. it enrolls them in the toronto triple threat basketball club thereby allowing them to participate in an athletic skills development program. it provides counselling to them on healthy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton) and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
49/70
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 budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION - RBC EMPLOYEE RUN FOR THE KIDS — C$20,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQueen's University — C$18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUTS FOUNDATION — C$15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kirk — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNELLIE'S SHELTER & SUPPORT FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE SOCIAL MINISTRIES — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LUKE'S UNITED CHURCH — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE WAR AMPS — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — C$6,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS KINGSTON FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL SAINTS CHURCH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWATER FIRST — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEFIELD COLLGE SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH SCIENCES NORTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUT OF THE COLD FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSEDNA WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUDBURY-MANITOULIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnicef Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Health Sciences Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcMaster University — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAM — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILM MAKERS OF TORONTO — C$3,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBOUR 2 NEIGHBOUR CENTRE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSickkids Charitable Giving Fund — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERNESTINES WOMENS SHELTER — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUDBURY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW SONGS FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE OF HAMILTON — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE AND COUNSELLING CENTRE OF — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING CITY FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$2,000 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 FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…The Langar FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…Hydro One Employees' …Jewish Foundation of …Ontario Power Generat…The George Lunan Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Jackman FoundationWcpd Foundation
Toronto FoundationON14.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The Langar Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The George Lunan Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Wcpd Foundation

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 70 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 advancing religion.

Source object 118813245:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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