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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Gary Whitelaw and Linda Mollenhauer Foundation

1.to promote excellence in the charity and non-profit sector in canada for the benefit of the public by conducing reseracn on best practices related to the charity and non-profit sector and disseminating the results of the research to the public; 2.to advance education by providing seminars workshops and resource…

C$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$95k
C$15,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YORK UNIVERSITYC$25,000
IMAGINE CANADAC$15,000
TAMARACK INSTITUTEC$15,000
GEORGE HULL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESC$15,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATOR TORONTOC$15,000
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGYC$5,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$1,000
THE RANDY STARKMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$282k). The 12% that went abroad (C$40k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$40k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$168k · 6 repeat orgsC$154k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

C$168k
C$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • GH
    GEORGE HULL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$40k · revenue +5%
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$35k · revenue +6%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATOR TORONTO
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$35k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$40k
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$28k
  • SP
    STELLA'S PLACE
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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3
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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4
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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5
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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6
C.D. Howe Institute

The c.d. howe institute is a registered charity and an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. widely considered to be canada's most…

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7
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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8
Canadahelps Canadon

CanadaHelps is a charitable foundation working to increase giving in Canada through technology. It provides a safe and trusted one-stop destination for donors to engage with charities in Canada. Donors can donate once monthly or with a…

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9
The Stratas Foundation

Distributed (2) scholarships and/or private research grants to Canadian students and/or scholars at accredited universities or research centers in Canada. Each award was allocated toward a mental health research program intended to advance…

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10
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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11
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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12
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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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 Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
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 budgetGEORGE HULL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATOR TORONTO — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITALIZE FOR KIDS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTAMARACK INSTITUTE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNICEF — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RANDY STARKMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — 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.

Toronto FoundationJewish Foundation of …Ottawa Community Foun…BenefAction FoundationCanada GivesRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
Toronto FoundationON9.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · BenefAction Foundation · Canada Gives · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Vancouver Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact 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.

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 16 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 2024-11-30, 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 808055578:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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