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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Northern Legacy Foundation

To provide financial assistance to qualified donees in the areas of education social welfare and cultural activities.

C$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$485k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$3.5M
C$100,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACKC$1,285,000
INDSPIREC$738,333
CEE CENTRE FOR YOUNG BLACK PROFC$561,000
MLSE FOUNDATIONC$500,000
NATIONAL INDIAN BROTHERHOOD TRUST FUNDC$400,000
BLACK YOUTH HELPLINEC$200,000
RAINBOW RAILROADC$100,000
M.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION FC$75,000
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETYC$60,000
FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADAC$50,000
CANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETYC$15,000
NORTH OKANAGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$10,000
THE YELLOWKNIFE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$20M
Quebec
C$1.0M
British Columbia
C$367k
Saskatchewan
C$56k
Manitoba
C$16k
Alberta
C$14k
Northwest Territories
C$10k
Nova Scotia
C$858

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 41 repeat orgsC$4.4M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
99

Total granted

C$17M
C$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$485k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • CO
    Canadian Olympic foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$4.1M · revenue +43% · 27% of their budget
  • GD
    GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2.3M · revenue +1% · 30% of their budget
  • CF
    CAMH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$2.2M · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • TC
    Trans Canada Trail
    one grant, 2017 · C$500k
  • KH
    KIDS HELP PHONE
    one grant, 2020 · C$500k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    Trans Canada Trail Fundraising
    one grant, 2017 · C$500k · revenue -79%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
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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3
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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4
Physical and Health Education Canada

Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) champions healthy active kids by working to ensure all children and youth have equitable access to the benefits of quality physical and health education (PHE) programming and healthy…

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5
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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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 Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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8
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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9
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada

Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who…

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10
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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11
Canadian Disability Foundation

The Canadian Disability Foundation ('CDF') is Canada’s national disability organization. Established to provide philanthropic support services and innovative social solutions CDF helps the more than 8 million disabled Canadians to be…

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12
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Simcoe Hall Settlement House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

132 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. 132 of the 145 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/132
Grantees still filing
96/132
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 budgetCanadian Olympic foundation — C$4,080,517 over 4y, 27% of budgetGORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK — C$2,320,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$2,171,265 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL — C$1,576,562 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMLSE FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCEE CENTRE FOR YOURNG BLACK PROFESSIONALD — C$1,132,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$1,114,999 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTrans Canada Trail Fundraising — C$500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOOD BANK CANADA — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNIA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS — C$459,098 over 2y, 21% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation — C$440,558 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$421,555 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN BROTHERHOOD TRUST FUND — C$400,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Darling Home for Kids/The Cedarbrook Society — C$383,400 over 1y, 18% of budgetToronto General and Western Hospital — C$373,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK YOUTH HELPLINE — C$300,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetParalympic Foundation of Canada — C$250,722 over 4y, 17% of budgetM.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION F — C$250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Canada — C$243,054 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$131,163 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCPAC FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetWE Charity — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLook good Feel Better — C$98,937 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFondation Chu Sainte-Justine — C$58,635 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISION OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWESTON FRONTLINES CENTRE — C$40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$33,332 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONAYT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edwards & Suzanne Rogers Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Oochigeas — C$24,030 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSinai Health Foundation — C$17,682 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation — C$16,666 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAMLOOPS ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORTRAIT GALLERY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$10,000 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.

The Peter Gilgan Foun…Fiera Capital Foundat…Youth and Philanthrop…Toronto FoundationThe Blg FoundationRaymond James Canada …United Way British Co…Weston Family Foundat…Toronto District Scho…Calgary Shaw Charity …Doane Grant Thornton …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Peter Gilgan FoundationON9.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Toronto Foundation · The Blg Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Toronto District School Board · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 145 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 2024-01-31, 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 140783820:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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