Mississauga, ON · Private foundation
Gillespie Family Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds to be applied for the benefit of other charitable organizations in canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k11 grants · C$17k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | C$110,000 |
| TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | C$60,000 |
| ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM | C$55,000 |
| CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL | C$50,000 |
| UNITED WAY | C$10,000 |
| TRILLIUM HEALTH PARTNERS FOUNDATION | C$6,000 |
| PARKINSON CANADA | C$2,500 |
| YOUTHLEADARTS | C$2,000 |
| SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$1,000 |
| PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION | C$1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$500 |
| ALZHEIMER SOCIETY | C$500 |
| HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION | C$500 |
| CAMPFIRE CIRCLE | C$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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO8× · 2017–2024 · C$160k · revenue +43%
- TSTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA7× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +12%
- CVCREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$86k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- TSTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2023 · C$10k
- OPONTARIO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · C$500 · revenue +23%
- MFMISSISSAUGA FOOD BANKgraduated3× · 2017–2019 · C$200 · revenue ×19
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.
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…
Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…
Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…
Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…
University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…
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.…
The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…
1. Funds researchers and research teams working in medical institutes universities hospitals and communities across Canada as part of commitment to fund life-saving research. 2. Provides the public with health information and education…
Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…
First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…
The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…
The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the most unlike its peers is The United Way of Peel Region. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON CANADA ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP OOCHIGEAS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLEADARTS ↗
- Who funds HEART & STROKE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds JANE FINCH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds SCOTT MISSIOM ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TVO ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSAUGA FOOD BANK ↗
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: Jackman Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund 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.