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Stouffville, ON · Private foundation

Ellis Family Foundation

The objective of Ellis Family Foundation is to make gifts to qualified donees.

C$237k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$122k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$12,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEDICATED ADVOCACYC$50,000
MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITALC$50,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$45,000
OPERATION SMILEC$45,000
WHITCHURCH STOUFFVILLE FOOD BANKC$12,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
KIWANIS CLUB OF EAST YORKC$10,000
ST. PAUL'S ON THE HILL FOOD BANKC$9,982
RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$5,000
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$300k · 4 repeat orgsC$139k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

C$300k
C$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$97k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MS
    MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$150k · revenue +169%
  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$72k · revenue +42%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$58k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • WF
    WINDREACH FARM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -5%
  • T
    TRACK3graduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +102%
  • TT
    THE TORONTO STAR SANTA CLAUS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +2%

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.

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The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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2
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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3
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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4
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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5
StayWell Suites Charity

StayWell’s mission is to support healthcare access for patients of all ages throughout Canada including the GTA who must relocate to Toronto for critical medical care unavailable in their community. Through our reduced-cost initiatives…

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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
Tim Horton Children's Foundation Inc.

The Tim Horton Children's Foundation is committed to empowering youth from low-income households through Tim Horton camp experiences. Camp experiences are intentionally designed to foster the strengths within youth and provide…

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8
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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9
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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10
Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund

SickKids Charitable Giving Fund (a public charity) offers donors an opportunity to support their favourite charities through donor advised funds. Donors establish their own named fund and make irrevocable gifts to the fund while explicitly…

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11
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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12
The Frosting Foundation

Supplied birthday boxes to sick kids in children's hospitals across canada.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toronto Star Children's Charities and the most unlike its peers is Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (Dars). 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

16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
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 budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$72,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$58,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINDREACH FARM FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCNIB — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITCHURCH STOUFFVILLE FOOD BANK — C$12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF EAST YORK — C$10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. PAUL'S ON THE HILL FOOD BANK — C$9,982 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MACDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRACK3 — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TORONTO STAR SANTA CLAUS FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAJAX PICKERING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND HEALTING INTERNATIONAL — C$1,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER GLOBAL INC — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Ontario Power Generat…Toronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust FundON7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Toronto Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 16 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 737171330:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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