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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Driscoll Family Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act of canada.

C$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$2.0M
C$1,000,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UHN FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
BELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.3M · 11 repeat orgsC$354k 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 +24% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

C$7.3M
C$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k 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

  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$3.1M · revenue +24%
  • UF
    UHN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +34%
  • TH
    The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.0M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SM
    St. Michael's Cathedral Basilicagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue ×605 · 34% of their budget
  • CW
    CANADA'S WALK OF FAME
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +24%
  • CI
    CONCACAN INC.
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · 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
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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2
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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3
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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4
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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5
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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8
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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9
Pancreatic Cancer Canada Cancer du Pancreas Canada

Research: provided continued funding for an early detection study called prosperpanc that aims to identify biomarkers for faster diagnosis of pancreatic cancer as well as a study assessing the current landscape of palliative care in…

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10
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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11
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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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 The Monastery of Mount Carmel. 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

28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
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 budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$3,100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$3,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children Foundation — C$1,001,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetG. MAGNOTTA FOUNDAITON FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES — C$106,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetBELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSt. Michael's Cathedral Basilica — C$100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCANADA'S WALK OF FAME — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCONCACAN INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMH (CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH) FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OFMUSIC SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)Canada — C$24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelieve to Achieve Organization — C$15,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE SHARON FRANCIS INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE — C$15,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSHARELIFE — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPious Society of St. Charles Borromeo of Ontario — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALS (AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS) SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuskoka Steamships and Historical Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Assistance Program City of Hamilton & District — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMelanoma Network of Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONASTERY OF MOUNT CARMEL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's and Colitis Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — 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.

Canada GivesBurgundy Legacy Found…Aqueduct FoundationToronto FoundationJewish Foundation of …BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way Golden Hor…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…My Tribute Gift Found…Strategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…
Canada GivesON8.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canada Gives · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 28 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 795726926:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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