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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

George and Helen Vari Foundation

Gifts to qualified donees funding to other charities to provide the following services: -social services in canada -education and research -dulture/arts -religion -environmental and other community benefits

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$530k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$400k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$400,000
THE POLLUTION PROBE FOUNDATIONC$180,000
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MEAGAN BEBENEK FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE YORK SCHOOLC$100,000
UNIVERISTY OF TORONTOC$50,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$25,000
MARGARET'S HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INCC$20,000
ST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$15,000
OPERATION WALK CANADA INC.C$15,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.0M · 16 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
27

Total granted

C$4.0M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

94%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$851k · revenue +43%
  • TP
    THE POLLUTION PROBE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$430k · revenue +138%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$360k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RH
    Rideau Hall Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.0M · revenue +118%
  • BC
    BEECHWOOD CEMETERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue -6%
  • RC
    REKAI CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$45k · revenue +888% · 49% of their budget

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.

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York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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2
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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3
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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4
The Toronto French School Foundation

The mission of the TFS Foundation ('Foundation') is to promote philanthropy within Toronto French School community. The Foundation receives all charitable donations in support of goals identified by the School and is responsible for the…

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5
The Toronto Symphony Foundation

The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.

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6
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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7
Ocad University Foundation
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8
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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9
Mediaeval Studies Foundation

To receive hold and investment endowment assets for the benefit of the pontifical institute of mediaeval studies in toronto and pay income of the foundation to the institute.

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10
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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11
The Foundation of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada/La Fondation Du College Royal Des Medecins Et Chirurgiens Du Canada

To fund awards in the area of post graduate medical education

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12
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

42 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. 42 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRideau Hall Foundation — C$1,001,727 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$851,330 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POLLUTION PROBE FOUNDATION — C$430,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$360,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vimy Foundation — C$255,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetToronto Scottish Regiment Foundation — C$241,813 over 4y, 83% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCF CHAPLAINCY BRANCH SUPPORT GROUP — C$112,049 over 2y, 64% of budgetMEAGAN BEBENEK FOUNDATION — C$102,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE YORK SCHOOL — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArchdiocese of Toronto — C$58,975 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBEECHWOOD CEMETERY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOLE NATIONALE DE THEATRE DU CANADA - THE NATIONAL THEATRE S — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREKAI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetOPERATION WALK CANADA INC. — C$38,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$20,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARGARET'S HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOBOURGE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLE FONDATION DE L'UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOISE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION COLLEGE ANDRE-GRASSET — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFONDATION DU COLLEGE UNIVERSITAIRE DOMINICAIN — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROBERTA BONDAR FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRE ESPOIR SOPHIE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PONCTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY — C$3,678 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA ATELIER — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Arts Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYCÉE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOCIETE D'HISTOIRE DE TORONTO — C$1,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Royal Regiment of Canada Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Arts Access Fund — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVictoria University — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL PARENT'S ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH — C$100 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 FoundationJackman FoundationHal Jackman FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Link Charity Canada I…The Dalglish Family F…La Fondation Rossy th…Giftpact Foundation I…Weston Family Foundat…Burgundy Legacy Found…The George Cedric Met…BenefAction Foundation
Toronto FoundationON12.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · The Dalglish Family Foundation · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · BenefAction 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 46 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 118936988:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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