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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Ewout and Lynn Heersink Family Foundation

Gifts received are invested with the intention of providing grants to registered charities out of the income or capital of these funds.

C$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$104k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$80k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$104k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY CENTRAIDEC$103,948
SMILEZONEC$35,000
ST MICHAEL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
ST MICHAEL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
HALTON FOOD FOR THOUGHTC$3,500
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$709k · 3 repeat orgsC$379k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

C$709k
C$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$49k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY CENTRAIDE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$639k · revenue -1%
  • S
    SMILEZONE
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$60k · revenue +124%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$10k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
    one grant, 2021 · C$190k
  • HR
    HIGH RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +141%
  • PC
    PROJECT CANOEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +27%

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
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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3
The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital

The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…

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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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6
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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7
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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8
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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9
Proximity Institute

Proximity Institute formerly known as The Change Foundation is an independent charitable organization that was created via an endowment from the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). Through Proximity’s charitable purpose to promote support…

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10
Northumberland Hills Hospital Foundation

Improving health care and the quality of life in the community by growing and maintaining donor support for the northumberland hills hospital

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11
The Halton Region Conservation Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance Conservation Halton's critical environmental projects that protect our natural assets connect people with nature and inspire change. Fund raised support programs such as tree planting…

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12
Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Foothills Country Hospice Society. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
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 budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE — C$639,105 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSMILEZONE — C$60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetST MICHAEL FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPROJECT CANOE — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRANE LAKE DISCOVERY CAMP — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFOOTHILLS COUNTRY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMCKELL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALTON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALTON FOOD FOR THOUGHT — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 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.

Private Giving Founda…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…My Tribute Gift Found…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Private Giving FoundationON7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund 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 14 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 738315316:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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