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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Harry & Lillian Seymour Family Foundation

Distributing income earned on the foundation's capital to various registered charities.

C$125k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$62k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$50,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$20,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$20,000
ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCHC$12,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ART GALLEY OF ONTARIOC$5,000
CREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATIONC$2,500
ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCHC$300
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 71% of grant dollars (C$430k). The 29% that went abroad (C$173k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 29% of all-years giving (C$173k)

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$370k · 7 repeat orgsC$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

C$370k
C$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$200k · revenue +9%
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$80k · revenue +41%
  • RU
    ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$32k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +10%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k
  • RU
    ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k

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
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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2
The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall

The objectives of the 'Corporation' are for charitable purposes: A) To advance the knowledge and appreciation of and to stimulate interest in the arts generally and music in particular by performance and otherwise; B) to advance the…

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3
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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4
The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation

To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario

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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
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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7
The Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall Foundation

The Foundation continues to support the charitable activities of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.

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8
Toronto Arts Foundation

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…

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9
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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10
Varley-Mckay Art Foundation of Markham

To acquire a collection of art objects and documentary material in respect of the collection; to provide support for the educational programs and activities of the Varley McKay Art Gallery of Markham. To generate funds through donations…

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11
The Rogers Foundation

The objectives of the foundation are to receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom for charitable purposes to any recipient the donation to whom would qualify under the income tax act…

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12
Royal Conservatory of Music Foundation

Royal conservatory of music (the 'foundation') was incorporated under the canada corporation act of february 07 1996. the foundation has continued under the canada not-for-profit corporation act. it was created to receive and maintain…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ray's Place Scholarship Trust. 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

9 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. 9 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)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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 budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH — C$32,300 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAY'S PLACE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 3y, 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.

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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 740132329:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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