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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

J.P. Bickell Foundation

To provide financial assistance to general charities in ontario.

C$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
292
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 292 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k64 grants · C$364k
  • C$10k–50k178 grants · C$3.9M
  • C$50k–250k50 grants · C$3.0M
C$20,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$184M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$85,000
KINGSTON GENERAL HEALTHC$80,000
MCMASTER UNIVERSITYC$80,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO RESEACHC$80,000
THE O.E WALLI FOUNDATIONC$80,000
OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$79,700
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$75,000
TORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$75,000
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$75,000
TORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$75,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$70,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$70,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$70,000
OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE RESEARCH CORP. (M.RES)C$70,000
SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORKC$70,000
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 — 77% of grant dollars (C$27M). The 23% that went abroad (C$8.1M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 23% of all-years giving (C$8.1M)

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 198 repeat orgsC$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

198 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

198
340

Total granted

C$17M
C$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+20%

Still filing today

98%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.4M 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

  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
    2× · 2018–2022 · C$4.8M · revenue +42%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST CANADA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$460k · revenue ×12
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (M.RES-2)
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$348k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • S
    SICKKIDS
    one grant, 2023 · C$4.4M
  • GC
    GENERAL CHARITIES
    one grant, 2023 · C$3.0M
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · C$400k

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
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Cancer Care Ontario

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…

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6
Community Living Toronto

Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…

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7
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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8
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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9
Ymca of Greater Toronto

The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…

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10
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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11
Cota Health

Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…

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12
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighbourhood Group Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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

555 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. 555 of the 615 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)
124
Early backer (in before they grew)
547/555
Grantees still filing
383/555
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$4,821,502 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$460,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (M.RES-2) — C$347,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$324,797 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$287,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCarleton University — C$285,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$269,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE'S PLACE SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND — C$235,555 over 1y, 16% of budgetCANADIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$221,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetTHE O.E WALLI FOUNDATION — C$213,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SUITE HOPE SHARED LIVING CORP. — C$204,600 over 5y, 11% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELGIN RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE — C$200,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetCamp Bickell, Inc. — C$193,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL (M.RES) — C$185,668 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITY FIRST — C$167,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$165,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS KINGSTON FOUNDATION — C$164,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIAN FOUNDATION-MINING AWARDS — C$160,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER TORONTO AREA — C$160,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO RESEACH — C$155,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH BAY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer foundation — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO - MINING AWARDS — C$147,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAYL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$145,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADA — C$117,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBETHELL HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$112,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetORILLIA SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$111,838 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER TERRA HOUSE NORTH TORONTO — C$110,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSHERIDAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND — C$107,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIPISSING REGIONAL COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE — C$105,215 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE DOOR SUPPORT SERVICES — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE — C$100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY TORONTO GRACE HEALTH CENTRE — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KENSINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION HAMILTON — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TORONTO SYMPHONY — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION CANADA — C$98,015 over 6y, 1.3% 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.

The George Lunan Foun…The Catherine and Max…Alice and Murray Mait…Arthur & Audrey Cutte…Robert Kerr FoundationHodgson Family Founda…The Harold E. Ballard…F. K. Morrow Foundati…The Charles H. Ivey F…The Henry White Kinne…The McLean FoundationJohansen-Larsen Found…
The George Lunan FoundationON52.7× affinity109 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Lunan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Hodgson Family Foundation · The Harold E. Ballard Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The Charles H. Ivey Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Johansen-Larsen 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 615 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 118975820:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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