Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Franko Family Foundation
Support academic studies research and publications in various fields of the humanities fine arts and religion and to support established religious institutions.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Canada-Ukraine Foundation | C$5,000 |
| Canadian Ukrainian Opera Association | C$3,000 |
| St Volodymyr Institute | C$3,000 |
| Ukrainian Museum of Canada of the Ukrainian Women's Ontario | C$2,500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.
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
- CUCanadian Ukrainian Opera Association6× · 2017–2024 · C$15k · revenue +93%
- SVSt Volodymyr Institute5× · 2020–2024 · C$12k · revenue +80%
- UCUkrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko3× · 2020–2023 · C$6k · revenue +649%
Funded once
- PTPunctuate Theatreone grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue -15%
- KFKyiv-Mohyla Foundation of Canadaone grant, 2023 · C$3k
- USUkrainian Studies Societygraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Operates annual festival promoting art and culture of ukrainian people
Promoting ukrainian education in canada. the foundation adminsters various funds which promote scholarly studies publications and conferences through grants fellowships and awards
The Institute concentrates on research publishing. The Institute implements an extensive education program by sponsoring the 'Literature and Arts' page in the community newspaper 'Ukrainian Echo;' promoting lectures by distinguished…
Provide scholarships to students for post secondary education and operate the canada ukraine parliamentary program
Education and engagement to foster understanding and appreciation of visual arts by staging exhibits holding lectures art classes and preparing materials for publication
The charity operates and maintains a museum of ukrainian cultural artifacts historical books and clothing.
The niagara ukrainian fund supports artistic cultural and educational activities and scholarships for ukrainian-canadians in niagara and provides economic support and settlement services for ukrainian newcomers to niagara
Founded in 1944 the ukrainian cultural and educational centre (oseredok) is a museum and archival heritrage institution that celebrates the remarkabel achievement and legacy of the ukrainian canadian community in canada. it serves as the…
Funding for research seminars on contemporary ukraine
Promoted education in a wide variety of ukrainian studies by providing funds for scholarships and stipends to posts graduate students at educational institutions in canada and abroad to further studies in ukrainian heritage and history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
- Who funds Canadian Ukrainian Opera Association ↗
- Who funds Canada-Ukraine Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Volodymyr Institute ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko ↗
- Who funds Mohyla Institute ↗
- Who funds Punctuate Theatre ↗
- Who funds Green Grove Camp ↗
- Who funds Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of Canada ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Museum of Canada of the Ukrainian Women's Ontario ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Studies Society ↗
- Who funds University of Alberta ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Orthodox Church Camp Crystal Lake ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (Toronto) Inc ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's College in Winnipeg ↗
- Who funds St Sophie Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral ↗
- Who funds St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre ↗
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: Sus Foundation of Canada · Temerty Foundation · Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko · Bcu Foundation · The Kalimin Foundation · The Huculak Foundation · Ihnatowycz Family Foundation · Canada-Ukraine Foundation · The St. Volodymyr Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation 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.