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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Estonian Foundation of Canada

The estonian foundation supports estonian cultural and heritage programs and initiatives across canada through charitable activities such as advancing education through language history and cultural programs academic scholarships and the arts.

C$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
C$6,800
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
VEMU-ESTONIAN STUDIES CENTREC$10,000
ESTONIAN ARTS CENTREC$6,800
ESTONIAN SCOUTS AND GUIDES CANADAC$1,299
SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ESTONIAN STUDIESC$750
ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHC$403
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 5 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +286% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+286%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$750 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

  • EA
    ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue ×316
  • VS
    VEMU-ESTONIAN STUDIES CENTRE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$88k · revenue +286%
  • SL
    ST.PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$63k · revenue +44% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TARTU FUND
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -28%
  • TE
    Toronto Estonian Baptist Churchgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$300 · revenue +78%
  • FE
    FIRST ESTONIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · C$200 · revenue +8%

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
Estonian Foundation of Canada

The estonian foundation supports estonian cultural and heritage programs and initiatives across canada through charitable activities such as advancing education through language history and cultural programs academic scholarships and the…

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2
Deanery of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Provide administrative and clerical support to the estonian evangelical lutheran churches in canada and support the chirch in estonia through donations to advance christian education and the restoration of historical buildings.

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3
Latvian National Federation in Canada Educational & Cultural Foundation
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4
Estonian Relief Committee in Canada

Estonian relief committee (erc) in canada is a canada-wide estonian aid organization. its objective is to draw together estonians and their organizations in canada to provide aid for benefit of the estonian community give or organize aid…

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5
Toronto Latvian Concert Association

Concerts and Festivals promotion and support for performing groups composers musical ensembles grants and awards for Canadian artists.

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6
Estonian Church Foundation

We operate and maintain a church facility that serves two estonian congregations and also serves as a community centre and library

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7
East European Genealogical Society Inc.

Cultural programs including heritage languages.

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8
Esteli English School
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9
Canadian Suomi Foundation

Awarding scholarships and awards to students studying finnish language and culture.

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10
Estonian Ecumenical Relief Organization

Community Support Student Scholarships Social Services

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11
Toronto Latvian Baptist Church
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12
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia Abroad

Scholarships bursaries awards 100%

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Estonian Museum Canada and the most unlike its peers is Canada-Ukraine Foundation. 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

9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE — C$1,507,945 over 6y, 21% of budgetVEMU-ESTONIAN STUDIES CENTRE — C$88,450 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetST.PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$62,661 over 8y, 27% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESTONIAN SCOUTS AND GUIDES CANADA — C$15,209 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TARTU FUND — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ESTONIAN STUDIES — C$750 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetToronto Estonian Baptist Church — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST ESTONIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$200 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 9 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 charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 891452575:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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