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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

LRDR Foundation

The foundation raises and maintains funds to donate to qualified donees as defined in s.149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada)

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$400k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$2.8M
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$2,500,000
NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$285,000
MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERESC$75,000
HERE FOR NOW THEATREC$75,000
STRATFORD FESTIVALC$50,000
OUTSIDE THE MARCHC$50,000
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETYC$50,000
WAR CHILDC$50,000
ACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTSC$50,000
SISTERINGC$25,000
OPERATION EYESIGHT UNIVERSALC$25,000
CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 14 repeat orgsC$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+12%

Still filing today

93%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.6M 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

  • NB
    NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$985k · revenue +25%
  • WC
    WAR CHILD
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$950k · revenue +12%
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$830k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$475k · revenue +12%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$200k
  • PM
    Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$192k

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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Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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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
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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4
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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5
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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6
Theatrefront Inc.

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

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7
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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12
Canadian Association for Theatre Research/Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale

Promoting scholarly research into theatre and drama through publications and awards; encouraging collection and analysis of canadian theatre materials; maintaining communication network for scholars of theatre and performance; holding and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights/Action Canada Pour La SantÉ Et Les Droits Sexuels and the most unlike its peers is Here for Now Theatre Company. 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

25 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. 25 of the 35 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$2,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$985,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWAR CHILD — C$950,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$830,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$475,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStratford Festival — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDINER MUSEUM — C$175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY - CANADA — C$150,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetQueen's University — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE THE MARCH — C$125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTS — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHERE FOR NOW THEATRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD TORONTO — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALGONQUIN PARK — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSISTERING — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNOCENCE CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDURHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT UNIVERSAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTarragon Theatre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WORLD REMEMBERS — C$20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY - KINGSTON — C$10,000 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.

Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationAbundance CanadaPrivate Giving Founda…Fiera Capital Foundat…Makeway FoundationJewish Foundation of …Ottawa Community Foun…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…
Toronto FoundationON9.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Abundance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Makeway Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 35 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 2024-06-30, 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 762994895:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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