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London, ON · Private foundation

Johansen-Larsen Foundation

The Johansen-Larsen Foundation funds other charities that carry out education initiatives that improve the lives of marginalized children youth and animals at risk.

C$457k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k34 grants · C$247k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$135k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$7,500
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETYC$75,000
RETURNING TO SPIRITC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO NATURAL CURIOSITY PROGRAMC$10,000
JOHN HUMPHREY CENTRE FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTSC$10,000
THEATRE OF THE BESTC$10,000
GIRL'S INC OF YORK REGIONC$10,000
SHUSWAP CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
WRITER'S EXCHAGEC$10,000
START2FINISHC$10,000
FOCUS FORWARD FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTHC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OXFORD COUNTYC$10,000
INNER CITY OUTREACHC$10,000
FINDING OUR POWER TOGETHERC$10,000
ARTS FOR ALLC$10,000
THE CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILYC$9,840
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$1.8M
British Columbia
C$296k
Manitoba
C$72k
Alberta
C$40k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$30k
Nova Scotia
C$15k
Prince Edward Island
C$15k
Quebec
C$15k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 67 repeat orgsC$637k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
36

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$292k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECT CAHEP
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$58k · revenue +14%
  • CF
    CULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$50k · revenue +93%
  • SW
    SCARBOROUGH WOMEN'S CENTRE
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$48k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • OO
    ORKIDSTRA-SISTEMA OTTAWA
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k
  • LG
    LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +25%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE BCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +56%

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
Toronto Youth Development

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

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2
Vibe Arts

VIBE Arts (formerly know as Arts for Children and Youth) annually engages young people 3 - 28 who live or identify with the margins in free hands-on art educational programs custom designed to respond to the unique needs of each community…

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3
Shakespearience Performing Arts

Deliver inclusive educational programs to young people in Grades 3-12 which cross all age academic cultural linguistic and socio- economic boundaries. Shakespearience currently offers three programs: an in-school workshop which visits more…

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4
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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5
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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6
Macphee Centre for Creative Learning Society

The macphee centre for creative learning society (macphee centre) is an alternative creative learning environment for youth between 12 and 19 years old who are attending school but at risk of dropping out or not completing their formal…

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7
Arthouse for Children and Youth

ArtHouse is a Halton-based charitable organization that offers free programs to vulnerable children and youth from 7-17 most particularly to individuals from families who may not have access to arts-related activities. Since 2009 Arthouse…

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8
Healthy Youth Network

What's your path - helping young people refine their skills passions & interests in order to develop a path for the future based on their priorities and goals. ally program - this youth-led ally program that creates systemic change is…

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9
Youth Art Connection

Yalp: the youth art leadership program teaches youth from marginalized backgrounds to explore ideas around their identity. their community and social issues they care about. artpreneurs: a program yac runs around nova scotia where youth…

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10
Trellis Society for Community Impact

At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…

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11
Shift Happens Coaching

The organization is committed to creating sustainable change for every youth we work with. the design of our programs uses the best elements from neuroscience co-active coaching leadership psychology and education. these philosophies are…

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12
For Youth Initiative in Toronto

The organization provides programs to create and foster an inclusive environment where youth and adult representatives of the diverse community of york in the city of toronto can work in partnership to address youth needs and issues and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth 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

117 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. 117 of the 130 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/117
Grantees still filing
72/117
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 budgetLUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECT CAHEP — C$58,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSKETCH Working Arts for Youth — C$55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS — C$50,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSCARBOROUGH WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$47,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE (EYA) — C$45,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE EXCELLENCE IN LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetJESSIE'S THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetARTHEART — C$40,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetiSister Technology Mentoring — C$40,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM — C$39,450 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$37,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRAINBOW SONGS FOUNDATION — C$35,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetARTS ETOBICOKE — C$35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLAKESHORE ARTS — C$35,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSTART2FINISH — C$35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHOICE FOR YOUTH — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF TORONTO — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetART CITY ST. JAMES TOWN — C$30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE HAMMER BAND — C$30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetRETURNING TO SPIRIT — C$30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetROSE OF SHARON SERVICE FOR YOUNG MOTHERS — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RIVERWOOD CONSERVANCY — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) — C$27,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetRAISING THE ROOF — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY — C$24,840 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREAT VICTORIA GREENBELT SOCIETY — C$24,600 over 2y, 12% of budgetOTTAWA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION — C$24,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) — C$23,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHUNTOH EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$22,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGIRL'S INC OF YORK REGION — C$22,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBILL REID GALLERY — C$21,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VETERINARY OUTREACH — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GUELPH — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS NOW — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetELEPHANT THOUGHTS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH — C$19,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP AWAKENING — C$19,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetPROJECT CANOE — C$18,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetREGIONAL HIV/AIDS CONNECTION — C$18,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS E-MENTORSHIP INNOVATION — C$18,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetORKIDSTRA-SISTEMA OTTAWA — C$17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANVAS ARTS ACTION PROGRAM — C$17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPROCYON WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATION CENTRE — C$17,500 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…The George Lunan Foun…The Catherine and Max…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Arthur & Audrey Cutte…St. Andrew's Charitab…The McLean FoundationThe Charles H. Ivey F…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Kids Up Front Foundat…S M Blair Family Foun…The Georgina Foundati…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON28.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation · St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Charles H. Ivey Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · S M Blair Family Foundation · The Georgina 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 130 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 824722011:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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