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North York, ON · Private foundation

Morrison Family Foundation

Support of not-for-profit charities focusing on education for the poor and disadvantaged

C$423k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$248k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$394k
C$7,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$247,963
THE MORRISON CENTREC$146,100
THE SISTERHOOD OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINEC$10,000
MARNER ASSIST FOUNDATIONC$7,000
THE BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOLC$5,000
FACE THE FUTURE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$1,000
IGNATIUS JESUIT CENTREC$500
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$4.1M · 17 repeat orgsC$163k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

C$4.1M
C$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+4%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • SF
    SICKKIDS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +30%
  • YU
    York University
    2× · 2017–2020 · C$85k · revenue +22%
  • MA
    MARNER ASSIST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$67k · revenue ×14 · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • D
    Dignitas
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue -100%
  • MA
    MEPKIN ABBEY INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · C$14k
  • RD
    RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · C$13k · 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
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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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
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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9
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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10
Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation

Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration is harnessing Canada’s cancer knowledge and leadership to assist local health care professionals in resource-constrained countries in palliative care end-of-life care and cancer control strategies and…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Excellence in Literacy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bnos Bais Yaakov High School. 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

37 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. 37 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
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 budgetWE Charity — C$1,491,918 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$1,293,963 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORRISON CENTRE — C$743,220 over 8y, 100% of budgetTHE RUMIE INITIATIVE — C$99,999 over 2y, 11% of budgetYork University — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARNER ASSIST FOUNDATION — C$67,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetThe Bishop Strachan School Foundation — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDignitas — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHIMP FOUNDATION — C$20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACE THE FUTURE FOUDNATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SISTERHOOD OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTouchstone Ministries — C$10,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetThe Bishop Strachan School — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA BASKETBALL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Compass Rose Society Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHUMANITATIAN COALITION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF MEDICINE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCELLENCE FOR LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHANK DOG I AM OUT DOG RESCUE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE IN CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenri Nouwen Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorest Community Partnership Fund — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIGNATIUS JESUIT CENTRE — 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 FoundationJackman FoundationLink Charity Canada I…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Aqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Raymond James Canada …Canada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Greater…
Toronto FoundationON9.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · 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 42 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 831810239:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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