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Markham, ON · Private foundation

Edwards Charitable Foundation

Income receive from investments was distributed to religious charitable and educational institutions.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$200k
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

  • C$10k–50k21 grants · C$380k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$720k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$200,000
MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDAC$100,000
TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDENSC$90,000
CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSONC$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$50,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH SOCIETY OF CANADAC$30,000
SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLDC$30,000
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$30,000
SCAROBOURH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$25,000
ONTARIO RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CJPME FOUNDATIONC$25,000
EVANGEL HALL MISSIONC$20,000
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$4.8M · 34 repeat orgsC$257k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
6

Total granted

C$4.8M
C$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+166%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$185k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +42%
  • TB
    TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDENS
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$445k · revenue +33%
  • MG
    MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$360k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BL
    BETTER LIVING CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue +166%
  • KC
    KNOX COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue +15%
  • PO
    PRESBYTERY OF EAST TORONTO
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -47%

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
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
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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4
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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5
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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6
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
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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9
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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10
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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11
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Societe De L'arthrite Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Oak Valley Health. 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

45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
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 TORONTO — C$1,350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALL — C$1,130,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTORONTO BOTANICAL GARDENS — C$445,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$360,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATION — C$125,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$125,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVANGEL HALL MISSION — C$85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST.MARKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$83,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetSLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD — C$80,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOB RUMBALL FOUNDATION FOR THE DEAF — C$55,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FDN — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARBRA SCHLIFER COMMEMORATIVE CLINIC — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetARISE MINISTRY — C$45,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetMARKHAM FOOD BANK — C$44,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBETTER LIVING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$40,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF TORONTO — C$35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS CANADA — C$35,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEFFECT HOPE (LEPORSY MISSION CANADA) — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCAROBOURH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH FRY — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCJPME FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE THE CHILDREN (WE CHARITY) — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST YORK LEARNING EXPERIENCE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIXON HALL — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMADD CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERY OF EAST TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW BRICK HOUSE (PROJECT HOSTEL) — C$2,000 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.

The Catherine and Max…Toronto FoundationTippet FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…BenefAction FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Private Giving Founda…Ontario Power Generat…Canada GivesF. K. Morrow Foundati…The Henry White Kinne…Youth and Philanthrop…
The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen FoundationON11.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Tippet Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Canada Gives · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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 45 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 2024-04-30, 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 889988598:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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