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Holdbest Foundation

HOLDBEST FOUNDATION (the 'foundation') was incorporated on august 12 2013 for the purpose of making charitable contributions.

C$497k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$45k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$328k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$125k
C$5,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$75,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
VE'AHAVTAC$30,000
FRED VICTOR CENTREC$30,000
HAVEN TORONTOC$30,000
INDSPIREC$30,000
NORTH YORK WOMEN'S SHELTERC$25,000
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$25,000
TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARYC$25,000
STELL'S PLACEC$25,000
CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDRENC$20,000
EVA'S INITIATIVESC$20,000
TEACH FOR CANADAC$20,000
JVS TORONTOC$15,000
INDSPIREC$12,500
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 21 repeat orgsC$109k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+27%

Still filing today

95%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$58k 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

  • WC
    WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$395k · revenue +132%
  • NY
    NORTH YORK GENERAL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$275k · revenue +57%
  • HT
    HAVEN TORONTO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$215k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • DO
    DOCUMENTARY ORGANIZATION OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +37%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k
  • LC
    L'ARCHE CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue -29%

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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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
Toronto Foundation

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…

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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
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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5
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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6
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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7
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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8
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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9
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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10
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

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…

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11
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

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…

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12
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Anduhyaun Inc.. 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

40 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. 40 of the 41 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
21/40
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 budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$395,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL ASSOCIATION — C$275,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN TORONTO — C$215,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTORONTO SYNPHONY OREN — C$195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$165,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHIR — C$140,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$135,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTELL'S PLACE — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$120,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJVS TORONTO — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDIXON NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH YORK WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$76,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$72,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEAST METRO YOUTH SERVICES — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVE'AHAVTA — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDOCUMENTARY ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GT — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN-NATURE COUNSELLING SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINBALL FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE482COLLECTIVE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetL'ARCHE CANADA FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABIONA CENTRE FOR INFANT & EARLY MENTAL HEALTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANI DEVELOPING AND NURTURING INDEPENDENCE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITURE OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDUHYAUN INC. — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET HEALTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT YORK FOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALGONQU — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — 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 FoundationThe Ben and Hilda Kat…The Azrieli Foundatio…Jewish Foundation of …Ontario Realtors Care…Link Charity Canada I…The Home Depot Canada…Canada GivesRobert Kerr FoundationToronto District Scho…BenefAction FoundationAqueduct Foundation
Toronto FoundationON12.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Canada Gives · Robert Kerr Foundation · Toronto District School Board · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct 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 41 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 843771437:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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