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North York, ON · Private foundation

Nicol Family Foundation

Donations to qualified donees that have charitable objectives and activities that align with the philanthropic interests of the Nicol Family.

C$471k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$48k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$123k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$300k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$100,020
KINCARDINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGIL(...)C$30,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$25,500
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$17,000
EQUINE CANADAC$15,000
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.C$12,710
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$12,500
THE TORONTO SYMPHONYC$10,000
DEVXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMSC$6,600
THE EARTH RANGERS FOUNDATIONC$5,500
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$5,000
COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONS (REGISTERED FOR(...)C$5,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.0M · 45 repeat orgsC$87k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
35

Total granted

C$6.0M
C$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+23%

Still filing today

87%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k 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

  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.6M · revenue +30%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +107%
  • TS
    Toronto Symphony Orchestra
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$160k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TG
    Toronto General & Western Hospital
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k
  • TB
    TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue -75%
  • CF
    Council for Canadian American Relations (registered foreign
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k

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
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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2
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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3
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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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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6
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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7
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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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
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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10
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

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

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11
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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12
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe De Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf. 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

72 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. 72 of the 84 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
48/72
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 budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$2,625,604 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$1,313,020 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$312,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetVillage Community Schools — C$300,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$160,078 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$151,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Opera Company — C$149,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$124,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$120,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGIL(...) — C$109,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINCARDINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$100,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — C$77,210 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEVXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS — C$72,200 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE EARTH RANGERS FOUNDATION — C$36,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps — C$24,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation of Canada — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$15,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGISTERED NURSES' FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetJONNY KELLOCK FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS CANADA — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$9,656 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAUGEEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,073 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY NIAGARA FOUNDATION — C$6,002 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIG LAKE ARTS — C$5,376 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — C$2,502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENNICK BRIDGEPOINT FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmici Camping Charity — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoorelands Community Services — C$2,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Law Society Foundation — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOB RUMBALL FOUNDATION FOR THE DEAF — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BRUCE GREY HEALTH KINCARDINE AUXILIARY — C$2,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Canada — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBruce Trail Conservancy — C$1,200 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Village Community Schools ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Opera Company ↗
  • Who funds The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGIL(...) ↗
  • Who funds KINCARDINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds DEVXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds THE EARTH RANGERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds Canada Helps ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Aid Foundation of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds REGISTERED NURSES' FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds JONNY KELLOCK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAUGEEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY NIAGARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG LAKE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Aqueduct FoundationToronto FoundationGerald Sheff & Shanit…Jackman FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Burgundy Legacy Found…Private Giving Founda…Link Charity Canada I…Fiera Capital Foundat…Jewish Foundation of …Kyzalea FoundationThe Dh Gales Family C…
Aqueduct FoundationBC11.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aqueduct Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Kyzalea Foundation · The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of 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 84 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 838278786:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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