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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

John and Myrna Daniels Foundation

The charity donates funds to qualified donees.

C$16M
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$12M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$160k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$16M
C$1,000,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$218M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$12,400,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$1,360,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYC$838,625
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$500,000
GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$160,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$42M · 10 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

C$42M
C$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
100%

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%’17’18’19’20’22’23
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

  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$23M · revenue +83%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$10M · revenue +43%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$1.1M · revenue +491%

Funded once

  • SF
    SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1.0M · revenue +69%
  • HD
    HOT DOCS
    one grant, 2020 · C$750k · revenue +5%
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF QUEBEC
    one grant, 2022 · C$635k · revenue -15% · 30% of their budget

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.

1
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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2
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)

The israel cancer research fund (toronto) provides funds to aid in the research of cancer in all phases: causes detection diagnosis treatment cure and care.

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3
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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4
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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5
The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation

The charity stages a large film festival and educates the public through this fesitval discussion and lectures as to the jewish history language society culture and religion.

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6
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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7
Sunnybrook Research Institute

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…

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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
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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10
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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11
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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12
The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund

Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Hot Docs. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$22,900,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$10,080,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$1,070,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$800,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$750,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF QUEBEC — C$634,950 over 1y, 30% of budgetARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$450,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGEORGE BROWN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$320,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTIFF — C$41,742 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETH TORAH CONGREGATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Slaight Family Fo…Toronto FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Slaight Family FoundationON8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Slaight Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 15 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 public 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 818491722:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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