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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Externalitator Foundation

Make donations to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1 (1) on the income tax act ( canada )

C$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.7M
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAN PROSPERITY FOUNDATIONC$1,714,000
INDSPIREC$50,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$30,000
CIRLCE HOME CHARITY SOCIETYC$28,956
CLEAN ECONOMY FUNDC$26,000
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETYC$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$10,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATIONC$10,000
UKRANIAN WORLD FOUNDATIONC$10,000
SOULPEPPER THEATREC$6,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBAC$5,000
SWIM DRINK FISH CANADAC$5,000
ONTARIO CLEAR AIR ALLIANCE RESEARCH INCC$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$2,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 17 repeat orgsC$533k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+52%

Still filing today

94%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$920k · revenue +37%
  • CE
    CLEAN ECONOMY FUND
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$501k · revenue +176%
  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$120k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CP
    CLEAN PROSPERITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$150k · revenue ×21 · 100% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Manitoba
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k
  • TG
    THE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$75k · revenue +75%

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
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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2
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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3
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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4
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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5
Eprf Energy Probe Research Foundation

The foundation conducts and publishes research to educate canadians on environmental issues. it promotes the democratic process by encouraging individual responsibility and accountability and it strives to help canada contribute to global…

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6
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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7
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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8
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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9
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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10
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

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11
Capture Carbon Canada Foundation
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12
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Pace Family 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

31 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. 31 of the 33 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
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 budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$920,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCLEAN ECONOMY FUND — C$501,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCLEAN PROSPERITY FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIRLCE HOME CHARITY SOCIETY — C$28,956 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCANADIAN UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK CHARITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLAKE ONTARIO WATER — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACE FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetONTARIO CLEAR AIR ALLIANCE RESEARCH INC — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD GARDNES CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOPSITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRANIAN WORLD FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRTUAL DIALOG FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PEMBINA INSTITUTE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR INDIGNEOUS ENVIRONMENTAL — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORWEST CO-OP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION — C$1,000 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.

Toronto FoundationMakeway FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The J W McConnell Fam…Ivey FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…The Trottier Family F…Clean Economy FundThe Consecon Foundati…The Auxilium Foundati…The Northpine Foundat…The Sitka Foundation
Toronto FoundationON13.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Ivey Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Clean Economy Fund · The Consecon Foundation · The Auxilium Foundation · The Northpine Foundation · The Sitka Foundation

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 33 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 751188517:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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