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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Doane Grant Thornton Foundation

The mission of the grant thornton foundation is to support the causes most important to our people by contributing to social moral and economic value in our communities making them a better place to live.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
440
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 440 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k341 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$10k–50k89 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$867k
C$3,500
Median grant
9
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IWK Health Centre Charitable FoundationC$200,000
Dollar A Day FoundationC$92,250
Dollar A Day FoundationC$91,250
Dollar A Day FoundationC$91,250
Dollar A Day FoundationC$91,250
Jays Care FoundationC$75,000
The Kamloops & District Society for People in MotionC$70,000
Special Olympics IncC$56,000
Toronto Humane SocietyC$50,000
Membertou Band CouncilC$50,000
Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS)C$30,000
WATERFRONT REGENERATION TRUSTC$30,000
Native Child and Family ServicesC$30,000
Make-A-Wish CanadaC$30,000
St. Andrew's ChurchC$30,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$3.5M
British Columbia
C$1.1M
Nova Scotia
C$883k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$833k
New Brunswick
C$534k
Alberta
C$432k
Prince Edward Island
C$266k
Saskatchewan
C$133k
Manitoba
C$128k
Quebec
C$68k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 205 repeat orgsC$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

205 repeat relationships — 145 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 197 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

205
304

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.4M 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

  • AD
    A Dollar A Day Foundation
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$661k · revenue +124% · 26% of their budget
  • TC
    The Canadian Mental Health Association
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$121k · revenue +29%
  • DB
    Daily Bread Food Bank
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$103k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel York
    one grant, 2023 · C$65k · revenue -13%
  • SC
    Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +48%
  • CB
    CHARLOTTETOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS INC.graduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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2
Services and Housing in the Province (Ship)

Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…

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3
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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4
Hull Services

Hull services is a multi-service organization that offers a range of evidence-based and evidence-informed programs that support children youth adults and families to overcome challenges and build resilience. hull programs and services…

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5
Niagara Resource Service for Youth

Operate a drop-in centre and crisis housing program for street youth and community-based youth programs in the niagara region. provide counselling referral and access to the other services food clothing recreational social support crisis…

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6
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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7
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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9
Housing for Youth in the City of York Corporation

The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.

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10
Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch

Mental health and addictions programs for adults and children by way of individual and group sessions with access to integrated primary care and housing support services. directly support individuals currently involved with services with…

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11
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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12
Resource Assistance for Youth Inc.

Resource Assistance for Youth Inc. ('RaY') offers services and programs to street-entrenched and homeless youth aged 0 to 29. The services and programs include:- Street outreach to build relationships with street-entrenched youth - Drop-In…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilmot Family Resource Centre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Free Korean Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

697 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. 697 of the 706 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)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
691/697
Grantees still filing
373/697
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetA Dollar A Day Foundation — C$661,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$394,020 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIWK Health Centre Charitable Foundation — C$202,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJays Care Foundation — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Canadian Mental Health Association — C$121,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$102,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Humane Society — C$99,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kamloops & District Society for People in Motion — C$89,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetThe Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada — C$78,275 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER — C$76,229 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Canada — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUpper Room Hospitality Ministry Inc The — C$67,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc — C$66,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBreakfast Clubs of Canada — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Peel York — C$65,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA / BANQUES ALIMENTAIRES CANADA — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way British Columbia — C$64,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ontario — C$55,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Canada — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$52,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoyal Alexandra Hospital Foundation The — C$52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWATERFRONT REGENERATION TRUST — C$50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMarch of Dimes Canada — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Canada — C$50,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMembertou Band Council — C$50,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetSturgeon Community Hospital Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHARLOTTETOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER VICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$45,895 over 1y, 39% of budgetGaia Project Inc. The — C$45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Canada — C$44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMovember Canada — C$43,260 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndspire — C$43,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReach Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAtlantic Wellness Community Center Inc. — C$39,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFood Banks Mississauga — C$37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) — C$37,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRoyal Inland Hospital Foundation — C$36,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBlack Health Alliance — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWounded Warriors Canada — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArchway Community Services — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CANADA — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Association for Riders with Disabilities — C$35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNutrition for Learning Inc. — C$33,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetQEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation — C$33,119 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKelowna General Hospital Foundation — C$33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Halifax — C$32,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way Winnipeg — C$32,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$30,253 over 6y, 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.

The Medavie Foundatio…The Windsor FoundationHarrison McCain Found…Honda Canada Foundati…United Way of Prince …The Allstate Foundati…Simcoe County Distric…River Philip Foundati…Masonic Foundation of…A Dollar A Day Founda…Congregation of Notre…The John and Jeanne E…
The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc.NB24.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · The Windsor Foundation · Harrison McCain Foundation · Honda Canada Foundation · United Way of Prince Edward Island · The Allstate Foundation of Canada · Simcoe County District School Board (Scdsb) · River Philip Foundation · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · A Dollar A Day Foundation · Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc. · The John and Jeanne Eyking Family 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 706 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 842129082:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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