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Mississauga, ON · Private foundation

Paul Barber Foundation

It is a family-run organization based in the greater toronto area that it dedicated to improving the lives of canadians by supporting transformational life-changing programmes.

C$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$216k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$173k
C$20,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER SAINT JOHN INC.C$72,715
HOME SUITE HOPE SHARED LIVING CORPC$30,000
TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS - BEYOND 330C$30,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATIONC$30,000
NEW BRUNSWICK YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC.C$30,000
WORKMAN ARTS PROJECT OF ONTARIOC$20,000
CWB WELDING FOUNDATIONC$20,000
SOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANYC$17,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$17,000
STORY PLANETC$12,000
MAKING CHANGES EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTAC$10,000
HAMMER BAND FROM VIOLENCE TO VIOLINSC$5,000
GREAT BIG CHILDREN'S THEATREC$5,000
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADAC$1,470
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$889k · 10 repeat orgsC$221k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

C$889k
C$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$107k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$300k · revenue +6%
  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS - BEYOND 330
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$140k · revenue +8%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$111k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IS
    INSPIRATIONS STUDIO/YWCA TORONTO
    one grant, 2022 · C$44k
  • YT
    YWCA TORONTO
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue -1%
  • OL
    OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +2%

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
Girls E-Mentorship Innovation

Girls e-mentorship (gem) is a registered charitable organization that offers an innovative mentorship program for high school girls facing multiple barriers gem equips girls with the necessary skills to achieve their grown-up aspirations…

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2
The Musical Stage Company

Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for…

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3
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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4
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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5
The Mindfuel Foundation

1. Tech Futures Challenge (TFC) is a project-based and student driven youth innovation program for middle high-school and postsecondary students delivered through extra-curricular enrichment learning. TFC Operates under MindFuel’s Canada…

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6
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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7
Foundation for Women in Film and Television - Toronto

To promote women in the screen based media industry ( film television digital media) in canada through programming mentoring networking and industry events to provide training to the screen based media industry in greater toronto to…

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8
Michaelle Jean Foundation

The mission of the michaëlle jean foundation is to create a future where all of canada's youth have the opportunity to thrive and prosper. through supporting active citizenship entrepeneurship and innovation the foundation empowers young…

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9
Actua

Actua's mandate is to support deliver and advocate for the engagement of youth in stem programming that builds their confidence and skills. actua's network of member organizations focuses on reaching youth from under-served communities…

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10
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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11
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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12
One Girl Can Society

One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education training and mentoring girls are empowered to achieve their goals earn a meaningful…

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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 The Hammer Band-From Violence to Violins. 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
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 budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS - BEYOND 330 — C$140,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER SAINT JOHN INC. — C$110,840 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$110,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BRUNSWICK YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC. — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA TORONTO — C$34,575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME SUITE HOPE SHARED LIVING CORP — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSTORY PLANET — C$24,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCWB WELDING FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORKMAN ARTS PROJECT OF ONTARIO — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE LOOKING IN — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEAN AUGUSTINE CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$10,891 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING CHANGES EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAMMER BAND FROM VIOLENCE TO VIOLINS — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREAT BIG CHILDREN'S THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$2,470 over 2y, 0.1% 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 FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…The Catherine and Max…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Home Depot Canada…The McLean FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Private Giving Founda…
Toronto FoundationON8.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · The McLean Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Private Giving 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 22 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 762384147:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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