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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Erika Heller Foundation

Private foundation

C$214k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$209k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$37,355
ORILLIA SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
ANSON GENERAL HOSPITALC$30,000
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$25,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$20,000
KENSINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$16,800
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR SPORT EXCELLENCE (PISE)C$15,000
THE YONGE ST. MISSIONC$15,000
SHADES OF HOPE WILDLIFE REFUGEC$15,000
SHARELIFE BLESSED SACREMENTC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$629k · 10 repeat orgsC$145k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

C$629k
C$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$96k · revenue +11%
  • AG
    ANSON GENERAL HOSPITAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$90k · revenue +10%
  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$75k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$32k · revenue +51%
  • RD
    RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +10%
  • SO
    SHADES OF HOPE WILDLIFE REFUGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k

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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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
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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3
Pih Partners in Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…

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4
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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5
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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6
Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Kingston health sciences centre is southeastern ontario's complex acute and specialty care research and teaching hospital . consisting of our hotel dieu hospital site and kingston general hospital site as well as the cancer centre of…

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7
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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8
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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9
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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10
Brightshores Health System

Public funded hospital engaged in providing 24 hour emergency care services and provides various medical outpatient and inpatient programs. these programs include surgical services acute medical care ambulatory care cardiac rehabilitation…

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11
West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation

West park healthcare centre foundation (wphcf) has been an integral partner with west park healthcare centre (wphc) for more than four decades. wphcf has partnered with wphc to expand programs and facilities support clinical research and…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Health Toronto 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$96,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANSON GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$75,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$73,355 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HEALTH TORONTO (ST. MICHAEL'S) — C$66,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YONGE ST. MISSION — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENSINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$46,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHADES OF HOPE WILDLIFE REFUGE — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetORILLIA SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$31,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARELIFE — C$15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR SPORT EXCELLENCE (PISE) — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONTARIO WATER CENTRE — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Toronto FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Private Giving Founda…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …My Tribute Gift Found…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way East Ontar…
Toronto FoundationON8.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 18 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 713154516:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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