Toronto, ON · Charitable organization
Ex Libris Association
Publishing newsletter 'elan ' to keep members and others informed about current and historical topics related to librarianship and other information topics.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDSPIRE | C$2,800 |
| INNISFIL INDEALAB & LIBRARY | C$500 |
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.
Provision of library services
The Calgary Public Library provides services to the citizens of Calgary including access to books and materials electronic resources information services other activities and to promote programs and life-long learning for children and…
Self generated and grant based
Operating a public library
Providing library services to the general public
Provide library services.
Library programming and services
Supports programs in the library through the purchase of materials and supplies. supports development of library collections by purchase of books and materials.
Physical and electronic library materials lending; literacy support and promotion; cultural preservation and promotion; local history preservation.
The lending of books and materials and to provide research facilities to the residents of elgin county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Public Library Board and the most unlike its peers is Sinai Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.