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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Butterfield Family Foundation

Donations to qualified donees

C$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$93k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$60k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$98k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$193k
C$2,500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$719k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY COLLEGEC$92,985
THE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTIONC$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIPC$50,000
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORYC$37,500
ECOJUSTICEC$25,000
ESCARPMENT CORRIDOR ALLIANCEC$25,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$7,500
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$7,000
STRATFORD FESTIVALC$7,000
PEN CANADAC$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUNDC$5,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$2,500
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,500
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$2,500
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 74 repeat orgsC$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
19

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

99%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TC
    Trinity College
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +36%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$426k · revenue +942% · 50% of their budget
  • E
    ECOJUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$190k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • SC
    SMALL CHANGE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +13%
  • WC
    War Child
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +16%
  • AJ
    ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +53%

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
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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2
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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3
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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4
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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5
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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6
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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7
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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8
The Giller Foundation

The foundation awards annual cash prizes to canadian writers for literary excellence.

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9
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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10
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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11
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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12
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Arts Foundation 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

94 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. 94 of the 95 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/94
Grantees still filing
67/94
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 budgetTrinity College — C$1,404,985 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — C$426,458 over 3y, 50% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$190,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP — C$165,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetRIDLEY COLLEGE — C$94,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORONO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$54,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$52,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALL — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTION — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetESCARPMENT CORRIDOR ALLIANCE — C$50,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$49,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERMUDIANA FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$41,500 over 6y, 95% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEN CANADA — C$35,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetART OF TIME ENSEMBLE — C$32,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSOULPEPPER — C$29,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL& MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVOLCANO THEATRE — C$15,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetART CANADA INSITUTE — C$15,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOPITAL FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$12,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA — C$9,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES — C$7,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITAS INTERNATIONAL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT — C$4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$4,250 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES — C$4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMWALKER DANCE COMPANY — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS & WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds Trinity College ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP ↗
  • Who funds RIDLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TORONO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALL ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds ESCARPMENT CORRIDOR ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds BERMUDIANA FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BRANKSOME HALL ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds PEN CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE ↗
  • Who funds SOULPEPPER ↗
  • Who funds SMALL CHANGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds HUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SICK KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds COLLINGWOOD GENERAL& MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOLCANO THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds ART CANADA INSITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS ↗
  • Who funds BOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds DIGNITAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE ↗

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.

The McLean FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…The George Cedric Met…Toronto FoundationHal Jackman FoundationJackman FoundationCanada GivesThe Catherine and Max…Ontario Arts Foundati…Lindy Green Family Fo…Gerald Sheff & Shanit…Aqueduct Foundation
The McLean FoundationON21.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Canada Gives · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Lindy Green Family Foundation · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · Aqueduct 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 95 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 836714253:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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