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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation

Receives donations and funds registered canadian charities

C$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTOC$4,000
GRAVE CHURCH-ON-THE-HILLC$3,800
HOT DOCSC$3,500
UNITED WAYC$3,000
DOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERSC$2,000
CHURCHES ON THE HILL FOOD BANKC$2,000
CAMHC$2,000
JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTREC$1,500
BELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$1,400
UNICEFC$1,200
TORONTO UKRAINIAN FOUNDATIONC$1,000
TERRY FOX RUNC$1,000
SOUTHERN FRONTENAC COMMUNITY SERVICESC$1,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$1,000
NEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICESC$1,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$285k · 95 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

95 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
39

Total granted

C$285k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +27%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +59%
  • SF
    SOUTHERN FRONTENAC COMMUNITY SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$10k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • LL
    LIMESTONE LEARNING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue -17%
  • OH
    ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -78%
  • HH
    HEART HOUSE HOSPICE
    one grant, 2022 · 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.

1
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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2
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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3
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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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
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
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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7
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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8
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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9
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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10
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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11
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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12
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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 143 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/137
Grantees still filing
96/137
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 budgetGRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL — C$23,850 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$19,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY HALL REVITALIZATION — C$13,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN FRONTENAC COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$10,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ENVIONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — C$9,800 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCHURCHES ON THE HILL FOOD BANK — C$9,200 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$9,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$9,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH — C$8,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS KINGSTON FOUNDATION(ROSE OF HOPE) — C$8,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetDOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERS — C$7,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$6,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA — C$5,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$5,073 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE — C$4,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF — C$4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOULPEPPER — C$4,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES — C$4,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES CANADA INC. — C$3,362 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTERRY FOX RUN — C$3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTVO — C$3,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMILY'S HOUSE/PHILIP AZIZ CENTRE — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$2,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDYING WITH DIGNITY — C$2,725 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$2,614 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$2,262 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$2,110 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBERMUDIANA FOUNDATION OF CANADA/MATERWORKS — C$2,100 over 6y, 62% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER — C$2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATARAQUI REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRES — C$1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CARE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$1,775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP — C$1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING — C$1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW BUS FOUNDATION — C$1,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINSTREL FOUNDATION — C$1,600 over 8y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds MASSEY HALL REVITALIZATION ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN FRONTENAC COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ENVIONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES ON THE HILL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds JANE/FINCH COMMUNITY AND FAMILY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds CAMH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS KINGSTON FOUNDATION(ROSE OF HOPE) ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds BRANKSOME HALL ↗
  • Who funds UPPER CANADA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds SOULPEPPER ↗
  • Who funds LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HOT DOCS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES CANADA INC. ↗
  • Who funds TERRY FOX RUN ↗
  • Who funds TVO ↗
  • Who funds SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMILY'S HOUSE/PHILIP AZIZ CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DYING WITH DIGNITY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds YONGE STREET MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BERMUDIANA FOUNDATION OF CANADA/MATERWORKS ↗
  • Who funds SICKKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMBER ↗
  • Who funds CATARAQUI REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗

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.

The Henry White Kinne…Jackman FoundationToronto FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…The McLean FoundationJewish Foundation of …The Catherine and Max…Clench House Foundati…The Slaight Family Fo…The George Lunan Foun…Tippet FoundationCanada Gives
The Henry White Kinnear FoundationON27.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Toronto Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Clench House Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Tippet Foundation · Canada Gives

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 143 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 2024-11-30, 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 869053512:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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