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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

D & G Estey Family Foundation

Donations to various registered charitable causes

C$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$56k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$1,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKC$55,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$27,000
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$15,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYC$13,638
STRATFORD SHAKESPEARAN FESTIVAL OF CANADAC$3,500
DRUG FREE KIDS CANADAC$3,500
ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCHC$3,000
THE YONGE STREET MISSIONC$1,500
CANADAHELPS CANADONC$1,000
THE CANADIAN STAGE CORPORATIONC$1,000
CROW'S THEATREC$1,000
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$1,000
HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITALC$1,000
CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONC$1,000
CHIDLREN BELIEVE (FORMERLY CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'SC$553
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$581k · 29 repeat orgsC$89k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
31

Total granted

C$581k
C$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$186k · revenue +13%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$100k · revenue +4%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$51k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • WC
    WADHAM COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
    one grant, 2018 · C$19k
  • NG
    NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$13k · revenue -56%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$7k · revenue +30%

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
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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3
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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4
The Giller Foundation

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

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5
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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6
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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7
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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8
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Canadian Disability Foundation

The Canadian Disability Foundation ('CDF') is Canada’s national disability organization. Established to provide philanthropic support services and innovative social solutions CDF helps the more than 8 million disabled Canadians to be…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter. 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

60 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. 60 of the 64 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$186,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$152,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$51,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH — C$17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN STAGE CORPORATION — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN BELIEVE (FORMERLY CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND OF CAN — C$4,159 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$3,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEARAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG FREE KIDS CANADA — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONNTO — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CANADA — C$2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL REGIMENT OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YONGE STREET MISSION — C$1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scott Mission — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrans Canada Trail — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRight to Play — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA CYCLE FOR KIDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL READINGS AT HARBOURFRONT — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA TORONTO — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAKING IT GLOBAL YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUREA FOUNDATION — C$420 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROY THOMSON HALL AND MASSEY HALL FOUNDATION — C$420 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The McLean FoundationToronto FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…Clench House Foundati…The Henry White Kinne…Burgundy Legacy Found…The Marion Armstrong …Aqueduct FoundationCanada GivesR. Howard Webster Fou…Weston Family Foundat…The Catherine and Max…
The McLean FoundationON15.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Clench House Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen 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 64 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 832562052:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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