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North York, ON · Private foundation

Buchan International Fund

To receive funds and contributions to maintain them and to provide gifts of capital and/or income to various qualified donees.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$750k
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$10k2 grants · C$3k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.3M
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UHN FoundationC$750,000
UHN FoundationC$550,000
UHN FoundationC$100,000
Southlake FoundationC$2,000
Maestro FoundationC$1,000
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 7 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • UF
    UHN Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +83%
  • CG
    CANADA GIVES
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$656k · revenue +377%
  • TY
    The Yellow Bus Foundation
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$60k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CF
    Camh Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$500k · revenue +87%
  • DW
    Doctors Without Borders
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue -4%
  • HW
    HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k

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.

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The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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2
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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3
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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6
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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7
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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8
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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9
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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10
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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11
Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases

The prime objective of the foundation is to make grants in aid of projects in support of research and education in the field of infectious disease. the organization has agreed to fund a 12 year series of summer studentships for medical…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uhn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Georgian Triangle. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
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 budgetUHN Foundation — C$2,995,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSUSILA DHARMA ASSOCIATION — C$665,900 over 5y, 64% of budgetCANADA GIVES — C$655,668 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCamh Foundation — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDoctors Without Borders — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Yellow Bus Foundation — C$60,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE PET TRUST — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthlake Foundation — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMinstrel Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$1,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$500 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.

BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
BenefAction FoundationON6.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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 17 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 841382286:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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