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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Brian and Jodean Tobin Family Foundation

The foundation provides support to various charitable organizations

C$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$52k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$16,666
UNITED WAYC$15,000
TRINITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$10,000
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITYC$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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$118k · 4 repeat orgsC$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +406% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

C$118k
C$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+406%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALDHOUSE CHARITIES
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$38k · revenue +37%
  • TG
    THE GATHERING PLACE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$25k · revenue +406%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue +727%

Funded once

  • ST
    SET THE STAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +25%
  • EC
    EAST COAST TRAIL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +4%
  • MH
    MONTFORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +23%

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
Transition House Coalition of Northumberland

Transition House responds directly to homelessness in Northumberland County by providing emergency housing with the goal of moving people to safe accessible affordable housing. Transition House provides transitional housing to singles at…

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2
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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3
Stephenville Festival Inc.

The stephenville theater festival is committed to the production of diverse professional theatre that engages enlightens and entertains audiences providing residents and visitors to the southwest region of newfoundland and labrador access…

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4
Better Living At Thompson House

Better Living at Thompson House (the 'Organization') formerly Don Mills Foundation for Seniors is a charitable community organization that provides continuum care to honour the unique life journey of each person they serve with the support…

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5
Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority

The eastern regional health authority accepts receipts of government grants and external donations used in the administration and provision of public health services in the eastern region of newfoundland and labrador (avalon bonavista and…

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6
United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

United Way Newfoundland and Labrador works to advance the common good and create opportunities for a better life for the people of our province. Our vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is a province where all of our neighborhoods are…

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7
Harvest House Atlantic Inc.

Harvest House Atlantic was established in 1999 and continues to support women and men in the Greater Moncton Area who find themselves homeless struggling with substance abuse struggling with mental health or seeking new opportunities to…

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8
United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc\Centraide De La Region Du Grand Moncton Et Du Sud Est Du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc

United Way of Greater Moncton & SENB Region Inc is a year long fundraising organization that invests in community development programs and initiatives to build a better place to live work raise a family and retire. We strive to increase…

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9
The National Trail Association of Canada

Working with provincial hiking associations in developing sections of the national hiking trail in various locations across canada. as well acting as an advocacy organization for national hiking issues and promoting the national hiking…

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10
North Bay Recovery Home

The organization provides residential and non-residential services for alcoholics and drug addicts who are committed to recovery. the program includes group and individual counselling food shelter prevention support safety assessment and…

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11
Ina Grafton Gage Home of Toronto

To provide residents with a home atmosphere while improving their quality of life in a long-term care home setting.

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12
Initiative for Neighbourly Nights (the Inn) Inc.

raising funds for building and operating funds - we have a goal to be open in the winter of 2025-26

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Gathering Place Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Tnl. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
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 budgetSET THE STAGE — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALDHOUSE CHARITIES — C$38,333 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE INCORPORATED — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEAST COAST TRAIL ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONTFORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE HARBOUR HISTORIC TRUST INC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHENVILLE EMERGENCY FOOD SERVICE INC — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

United Way of Newfoun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way East Ontar…My Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.NL7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund 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 11 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 779111889:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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