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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

New Routes to the Future Ecological Foundation

To benefit the community by funding charitable organizations who are involved with evironmental and economic research.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$6k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$1.1M
C$125,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
C.D. HOWE INSTITUTEC$210,000
UNICEF CANADAC$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$200,000
THE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$125,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$120,000
ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$120,000
GREEN DURHAM ASSOCIATIONC$100,000
PARKINSON CANADAC$5,944
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 10 repeat orgsC$389k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+74%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$365k 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

  • TL
    THE LEACOCK FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$285k · revenue +54%
  • CH
    C.D. HOWE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$250k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$220k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CH
    CD Howe Insitute
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • CH
    CD Howe Institute
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • TU
    Trinity United Church
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +16%

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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Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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7
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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8
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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9
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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10
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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11
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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12
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Red Cross Society / La Societe Canadienne De La Croix-Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Uxbridge Pastoral Charge. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
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 budgetTHE LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$285,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetC.D. HOWE INSTITUTE — C$250,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$220,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$207,900 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$205,944 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN DURHAM ASSOCIATION — C$35,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetTrent University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity United Church — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUSC Canada — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Army — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDoctors Without Borders Medecins sans Frontieres — C$1,000 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.

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Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligneAB3.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 19 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 2023-01-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public 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 850333196:2023-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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