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Don Mills, ON · Private foundation

Lee Tak Wai Foundation

To receive & maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income for charitable purposes.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k25 grants · C$57k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$654k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.0M
C$4,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUMC$1,000,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (RYERSON UNIVERISTY)C$200,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL - MYANMAR PROJECTC$200,000
ORBIS CANADAC$103,750
COVENANT HOUSEC$90,000
CHINESE CULTURE CENTREC$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DLLIGTAL COLLECTION-RICHARD LEEC$45,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALC$10,000
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUMC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$10,000
MCGILL UNIVERISTYC$10,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL GIFTS OF HOPEC$9,035
CANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMENC$5,000
SCOTT MISSIONC$4,600
SALVATION ARMYC$4,000
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.2M · 38 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
17

Total granted

C$6.2M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

97%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$115k 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

  • TM
    TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (RYERSON UNIVERSITY)
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$600k · revenue +1%
  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL - MYANMAR PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$544k · revenue +13%
  • MS
    MON SHEONG FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$467k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARIES
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · C$500k · revenue +5%
  • TH
    THE HILL 70 MEMORIAL
    one grant, 2018 · C$500k · revenue -95%

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.

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Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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7
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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8
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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9
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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10
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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11
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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12
Aga Khan Foundation Canada / Fondation Aga Khan Canada

Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) is a non-profit international development agency. Incorporated on July 3 1980 AKFC’s work covers two core lines of activity: programming related to international development and the acquisition and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hf Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology. 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

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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
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 budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM — C$2,300,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (RYERSON UNIVERSITY) — C$600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM — C$580,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL - MYANMAR PROJECT — C$543,514 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL 70 MEMORIAL — C$500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMON SHEONG FOUNDATION — C$467,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$460,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetORBIS CANADA — C$338,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetSENECA COLLEGE — C$170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$152,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$85,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$60,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE CENTRE — C$60,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERISTY — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DLLIGTAL COLLECTION-RICHARD LEE — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROAYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY COLLLEGE — C$31,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY FOOD BANK — C$29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARE CANADA - GAZA HUMANITARIAN CRISIS — C$27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN MUSEUM — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — C$20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$20,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTORONTO STAR CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — C$17,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEPROSY RELIEF CANADA — C$5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD SHARE — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHONG FOOK MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$4,656 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKOKA LAKES MUSEUM — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LEGAL EDUCATION & ACTION FUND — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST YORK FOUNDATION — C$600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FoundationOntario Power Generat…Hydro One Employees' …Private Giving Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The McLean FoundationAqueduct FoundationNathan and Lily Silve…Canadian Race Relatio…Charitable Gift Funds…Strategic Charitable …The Peter Gilgan Foun…
Toronto FoundationON15.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The McLean Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation · Canadian Race Relations Foundation - Fondation Canadienne Des Relations Raciales · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · The Peter Gilgan 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 890857576:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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