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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Leslois Shaw Foundation

Charitable donations to registered charities.

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$240k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.8M
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$1,031,514
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING OF CANADAC$500,000
TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$275,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGC$233,078
COVENANT HOUSEC$180,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$151,000
BABY LOVE BEGINNINGSC$150,000
THE WOODGREEN FOUNDATIONC$125,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGC$100,000
NYAKA CANADAC$60,000
HURONIA TRANSITION HOMESC$60,000
JUMP MATHC$50,000
THE SALTIRE FOUNDATION (CANADA)C$50,000
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZATIONC$50,000
ABIONA CENTRE FOR INFANT & EARLY MENTAL HEALTHC$50,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$19M · 33 repeat orgsC$898k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
30

Total granted

C$19M
C$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+37%

Still filing today

91%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$138k 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

  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$6.4M · revenue +42%
  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +34%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TP
    True Patriot Love Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +9%
  • CL
    CANADA LEARNING CODE INC.graduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +33%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$75k · revenue +0%

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
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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2
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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3
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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4
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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5
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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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
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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8
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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9
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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10
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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11
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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12
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre. 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

73 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
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 budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$6,414,395 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING OF CANADA — C$2,000,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$1,895,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$1,807,400 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$1,296,378 over 7y, 17% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY — C$1,100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$542,555 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$453,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZATION — C$433,600 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SALTIRE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$398,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetPRINCE'S TRUST CANADA — C$275,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBABY LOVE BEGINNINGS — C$258,462 over 2y, 43% of budgetJUMP MATH — C$255,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$205,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOOST CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$203,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTORONTO UNITED MENNONITE CHURCH — C$150,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetJACK ORG — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$127,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetABIONA CENTRE FOR INFANT & EARLY MENTAL HEALTH — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ottawa Hospital Foundation — C$115,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCANADA LEARNING CODE INC. — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNYAKA CANADA — C$86,800 over 2y, 88% of budgetHURONIA TRANSITION HOMES — C$85,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFEEDING CANADIAN KIDS — C$80,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMY FRIEND'S HOUSE COLLINGWOOD CRISIS CENTRE — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEAST METRO YOUTH SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRO BONO ONTARIO — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBlack Creek Community Health Centre — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$45,142 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetONTARIO TRACK3 ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES YES — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVING SPOONFUL — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREDIT VALLEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAVID MCANTONY GIBSON FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — C$23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDISTRESS CENTERS OF GREATER TORONTO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE OF TORONTO — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$20,000 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.

Kids Up Front Foundat…Toronto FoundationThe Blg FoundationBaby Love BeginningsCanada GivesThe McLean FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…Aqueduct FoundationOntario Power Generat…Give FoundationTippet FoundationJackman Foundation
Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto)ON17.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Toronto Foundation · The Blg Foundation · Baby Love Beginnings · Canada Gives · The McLean Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Give Foundation · Tippet Foundation · Jackman 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 71 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 834356818:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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