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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Kingfisher Foundation

Donation to qualified donees

C$774k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$235k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$525k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS INCORPORTEDC$100,000
THE ARCTIC ROSE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
SOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANYC$70,000
THE THEATRE CENTREC$55,000
CAHOOTS THEATRE COMPANYC$50,000
TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVALC$50,000
WHY NOT THEATREC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEGC$50,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP IMAGINATION AND PLACEC$25,000
TARRAGONC$25,000
MAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX THEATRE GROUPC$20,000
CROW'S THEATREC$20,000
SHAKESPEARE IN THE RUFFC$20,000
THE SIMINOVITCH PRIZE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.8M · 36 repeat orgsC$244k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
11

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$128k 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

  • YA
    YWCA AGUIK NUNAVUT
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$500k · revenue +43%
  • TA
    THE ARCTIC ROSE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$425k · revenue +300% · 39% of their budget
  • NE
    NATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS INCORPORTED
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$360k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BI
    BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$53k
  • WN
    WHY NOT THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k
  • OT
    OBSIDIAN THEATRE COMPANY INC.graduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +73%

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
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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2
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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3
The Purple Theatre Company

Produced original canadian theatre

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4
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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5
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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6
Nightswimming Repertory Theatre

Development and producing of Canadian theatre. We continue to commission and develop Canadian plays and contribute to the wider theatre community.

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7
Eclipse Theatre Company

Eclipse Theatre Company develops new Canadian musicals in live venues.

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8
Paprika Theatre Festival

Paprika Festival is a youth-led professional performing arts organization. We run year round professional training and mentorship programs that culminate in a performing arts festival of new work by young artists. We generate opportunities…

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9
Canadian Rep Theatre

Theatre production and play development programs focusing solely on the canadian theatrical repertoire developing new plays encouraging new playwrights and creating innovative new productions of established works. developing educational…

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10
Human Cargo Theatre

Human Cargo is a Toronto-based theatre company dedicated to the creation and touring of new theatrical works by bringing together theatre artists from different cultural backgrounds to create original multi-cultural productions.

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11
Tnl

TNL ongoing programs include creation and production of professional live theatre.

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12
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

We are one of the only two theatre companies in Canada that exclusively creates develops and produces new Asian Canadian work. We bring artistic excellence from the pan-Asian diaspora uplifting narratives previously unseen. We also provide…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Factory Theatre Lab 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

51 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. 51 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
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 budgetYWCA AGUIK NUNAVUT — C$500,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE ARCTIC ROSE FOUNDATION — C$425,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetNATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS INCORPORTED — C$360,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG — C$290,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWHY NOT THEATRE — C$275,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$200,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCAHOOTS THEATRE COMPANY — C$180,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetSKETCH — C$172,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE THEATRE CENTRE — C$160,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$142,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPEGGY BAKER DANCE PROJECTS — C$135,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTORONTO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$87,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetART OF TIME ENSEMBLE — C$70,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN THE RUFF — C$60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVOLCANO — C$55,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTARRAGON — C$51,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE — C$50,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CAROL SHILEDS PRICE FOR FICTION — C$50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX THEATRE GROUP — C$50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SIMINOVITCH PRIZE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN STAGE COMPANY — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFACTORY THEATRE — C$32,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL OF CANADA — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COAL MINE THEATRE — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE — C$25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNIGHTWOOD THEATRE — C$25,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP IMAGINATION AND PLACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLUMINATO FESTIVAL TORONTO — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FILM CENTRE — C$19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGO THEATRE INC — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQAGGIAVUUTI NUNAVUT PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWOODBINE HEIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMAKING ART MAKING CHANGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOBSIDIAN THEATRE COMPANY INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHEATRE NOVA SCOTIA — C$5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDUHYAUN INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPERFORMAING ARTS INFORMATION SERVICES — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA'S THEATRE MUSEUM — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTRE — C$2,500 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.

The George Cedric Met…Ontario Arts Foundati…The Slaight Family Fo…McLean Smits Family F…The McLean FoundationThe K. M. Hunter Char…The Catherine and Max…Lindy Green Family Fo…Hal Jackman FoundationToronto FoundationThe William and Nona …The Bulmash-Siegel Pr…
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON28.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · The Slaight Family Foundation · McLean Smits Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Lindy Green Family Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · The Bulmash-Siegel Private 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 53 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 822871182:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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