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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Nancy's Very Own Foundation

Makes qualifying disbursements primarily in respect of women and girls: social services international aid and development; education and research culture and arts religion health and community benefits equality and human rights.

C$757k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$450k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$59k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$148k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$450k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY FUNDC$450,000
Equality Now Inc.C$100,000
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$25,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$20,000
FAMOUS 5 FOUNDATIONC$20,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$12,000
FARM RADIO INTERNATIONALC$11,000
CANADA HELPSC$10,450
YWCA OF GREATER TORONTOC$10,000
CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDC$10,000
TORONTO MONTHLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDSC$10,000
MASSEY COLLEGEC$10,000
FRED VICTOR CENTREC$10,000
METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCHC$9,000
JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTSC$8,000
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 65 repeat orgsC$831k 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 +14% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
94

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$682k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

98%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$149k 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

  • EF
    EQUALITY FUND
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$527k · revenue ×27
  • LS
    LINDEN SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$102k · revenue +46%
  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$80k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • IF
    Institute for Change Leaders
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -65%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k
  • AI
    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · C$60k · revenue -100%

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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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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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6
Human Rights Watch Canada

Human rights watch canada'a programs focus on critical human rughts concerns both in canada and globally. key initiatives includ the toronto human rights watch film festival using storytelling through film to spotlight pressing issues and…

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7
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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8
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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9
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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10
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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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
Heritage Toronto

Heritage Toronto builds a better city by bringing people together to explore Toronto’s shared past and peoples’ lived experiences. It delivers 80+ public programs annually including: walking bus and cycling tours; heritage plaques; digital…

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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 Strings Attached Orchestra. 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

137 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. 137 of the 169 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/137
Grantees still filing
91/137
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 budgetEQUALITY FUND — C$527,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLINDEN SCHOOL — C$102,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetInstitute for Change Leaders — C$100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH — C$78,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetInformed Opinions — C$77,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTORONTO MONTHLY MEETING — C$69,900 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$54,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCanada Helps — C$53,570 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMOUS 5 FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD — C$40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$38,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYork University — C$32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM RADIO INTERNATIONAL — C$31,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN — C$30,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontairo — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeliconian Club — C$25,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetHalifax Womens History Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDYING WITH DIGNITY CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$23,669 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS EDUCATION - GUATTEMALA CHILDREN'S FUND — C$21,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Public Library Foundation — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNTS FOUNDATION — C$18,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNightwood Theatre — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTREET HEALTH COMMUNITY NURSING FOUNDATION — C$15,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOntario Women's History Network — C$14,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROL SHEILDS PRIZE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC JOY KOGAWA HOUSE SOCIETY — C$7,600 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHUMANITARIAN COALITION — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOREVER — C$6,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBGC Toronto Kiwanis — C$6,215 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARDELEANA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEgale Canada Human Rights — C$5,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetElektra Women's Choir — C$5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBarbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOR STREET UNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$5,000 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.

Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationHal Jackman FoundationThe McLean FoundationButterfield Family Fo…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Nick & Lynn Ross Char…The Henry White Kinne…Fiera Capital Foundat…Ursuline Religious of…The Catherine and Max…McLean Smits Family F…
Toronto FoundationON18.8× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Butterfield Family Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Ursuline Religious of the Diocese of London in Ontario · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · McLean Smits Family 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 169 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 2024-05-31, 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 advancing education.

Source object 119051217:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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