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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation

To provide funding to qualified donees to provide a public amenity by establishing administering and maintaining a multi-use public and recreational space facilities in the greater toronto area; to provide a public amenity by establishing and maintaining a park in the greater toronto area; to organize and participate in environmental…

C$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$450k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.6M
C$150,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO GENERAL WESTERN HOSPITAL FDNC$1,500,000
THE BENTWAY CONSERVANCYC$705,000
LORAN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDC$400,000
ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGNC$200,000
CROW'S THEATREC$150,000
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$50,000
CANADA'S THEATRE MUSEUMC$50,000
COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONSC$34,542
INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIPC$20,000
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 — 84% of grant dollars (C$44M). The 16% that went abroad (C$8.1M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 16% 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$41M · 33 repeat orgsC$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
22

Total granted

C$41M
C$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

97%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$285k 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

  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$8.0M · revenue +83%
  • RC
    ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$5.4M · revenue +17%
  • TB
    THE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$5.2M · revenue +27% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2017 · C$8.0M
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.5M · revenue -957%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TORONTO CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k

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.

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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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2
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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3
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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4
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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5
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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6
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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7
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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8
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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9
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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10
Ocad University Foundation
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11
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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12
Soundstreams Canada Concerts/Concerts Soundstreams Du Canada

Soundstreams is a global leader in the presentation of innovative carefully curated and immersive contemporary musical concerts. We are committed to showcasing the work of living Canadian and global composers/musicians often with the goal…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sistering-a Woman's Place. 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

53 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. 53 of the 58 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
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 budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL — C$8,012,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$5,365,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$5,173,880 over 5y, 58% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$3,500,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$3,350,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — C$2,660,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE — C$1,610,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FDN. — C$1,500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUMINATO — C$1,238,648 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$1,041,600 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE — C$1,025,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET — C$810,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY — C$800,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP — C$720,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMOCA — C$700,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — C$518,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetESPRIT ORCHESTRA — C$215,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARK PEOPLE — C$195,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCDN URBAN INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FDN. — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCANADIAN STAGE — C$90,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — C$76,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA'S THEATRE MUSEUM — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMASSEY HALL — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIDLEY COLLEGE - NEW BUILDING — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDMILL — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVGH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHTF (ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FDN.) — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOREVER — C$45,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetRAYS RESOURCES FOR SUCCESS — C$30,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPEOPLE FOR EDUCATION — C$25,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHARBOUR FRONT CENTRE — C$25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY PROJECT WATERSHED — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTO OUTDOOR ART FAIR — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAY'S PLACE — C$15,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK AND LITERACY FDN. — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetST. JAMES CATHEDRAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOORELANDS KIDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 McLean FoundationWeston Family Foundat…Hal Jackman FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…The George Cedric Met…Jackman FoundationThe Michael Young Fam…The William and Nona …The Azrieli Foundatio…The Henry White Kinne…The Slaight Family Fo…
Toronto FoundationON20.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Hal Jackman Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Michael Young Family Foundation · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The Slaight Family 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 58 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 816748388:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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