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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

McMillan Family Foundation

Donations to registered charities during the fiscal year.

C$2.6M
Granted FY2023
31
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$510k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$175k
  • C$50k–250k15 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$1.4M
C$50,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMHC$510,000
APPLEBY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$315,000
MSF CANADAC$300,000
CARE CANADAC$300,000
UNICEFC$200,000
UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTOC$100,000
THE PROSPERITY PROJECTC$100,000
CANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATIONC$100,000
BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCYC$50,000
STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$50,000
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SEECHANGE INITIATIVEC$50,000
OAKVILLE&MILTON HUMAN SOCIETYC$50,000
OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 24 repeat orgsC$1.7M 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 +19% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$933k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

92%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$760k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • AC
    APPLEBY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$888k · revenue +33%
  • C
    CAMH
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$635k · revenue +16%
  • MC
    MSF CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$590k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · C$200k · revenue +23%
  • OC
    OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k
  • NW
    NATIVE WOMEN ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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6
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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7
Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada with more than four million people living with diabetes in this country. It is a complex chronic condition that impacts a person’s health and overall life in profound ways.…

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8
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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9
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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10
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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11
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. 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

69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
42/69
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 budgetAPPLEBY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$888,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCAMH — C$635,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMSF CANADA — C$590,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$550,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE WAY CHARITY SOCIETY — C$500,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAthletes for Africa — C$394,384 over 6y, 97% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNICEF — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEECHANGE INITIATIVE — C$150,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PROSPERITY PROJECT — C$100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOAKVILLE&MILTON HUMAN SOCIETY — C$97,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA — C$90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTides Canada Foundation — C$85,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP WINSTON — C$80,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCAMFIRE CIRCLE — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMerry Go Round Children's Foundation — C$69,700 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEVA CANADA SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDAITON CANADA — C$60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$54,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHAB — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWAR CHILD — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN COUNCIL FOR REGUGEES — C$40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSTART ME UP NIAGARA — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TERESA GROUP — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP TRILLIUM — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO HUMAN SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIGINIK FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJESSIES - THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPCA MONTREAL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMFED CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURN HOUSE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST YORK LEARNING EXPERIENCE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ADOPTIONS OF FLAMBOROUGH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 FoundationWcpd FoundationUnited Way Golden Hor…Canada GivesGiftpact Foundation I…Oakville Community Fo…Burgundy Legacy Found…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Ontario Power Generat…BenefAction FoundationJewish Community Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…
Toronto FoundationON13.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Oakville Community Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · BenefAction Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · F. K. Morrow 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 65 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 868944182:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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