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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Paul W. O'Leary Foundation

Distributing income earned on the foundation's capital to various registered charities.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$200k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.4M
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEACHES SANDBOX FOUNDATIONC$900,000
ICFC INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAC$460,110
SHELTER MOVERSC$100,000
JOHN TAVARES FOUNDATIONC$50,000
COMMUNITY CENTRE 55C$50,000
WILDLANDS LEAGUEC$5,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.5M · 5 repeat orgsC$763k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

C$3.5M
C$708k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • II
    ICFC INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +16%
  • SM
    SHELTER MOVERS
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$400k · revenue +145%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CENTRE 55
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$90k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$600k · revenue +28%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +65%
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +124%

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
The Toronto Star Children's Charities

The purpose of The Toronto Star Children’s Charities is to inspire hope joy and curiosity in kids through its initiatives such as the Santa Claus Fund and the Fresh Air Fund. The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund provides grants to camp…

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2
The Sandbox Project Charity

The organization’s mandate is to bring together leading academics governments agencies charities ngo’s and industry to create a transformational environment for priority areas in child and youth health in canada. the focus is on injury…

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3
The Junior League of Toronto

Research community needs and then develop or expand programs that meet those needs. activities are: 1) contribute seed grants to charitable organizations to initiate innovative projects providing essential services to the community; 2)…

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4
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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5
Ymca of Greater Toronto

The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…

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6
Chill Foundation of Canada /

Chill inspires young people through boardsports and builds a more equitable outdoor community. two programs are currently running teaching youth to snowboard skateboard and stand-up paddle board. one program is running in vancouver and one…

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7
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amici Children's Camp Charity and the most unlike its peers is Shelter Movers. 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

15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
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 budgetBEACHES SANDBOX FOUNDATION — C$1,915,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetICFC INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$1,076,090 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$400,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTRE 55 — C$90,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetST JOSEPH CHURCH — C$50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJOHN TAVARES FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPS SMILE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMICI CHILDRENS CAMP CHARITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPINBALL CLEMONS FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLANDS LEAGUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPACE INDEPENDENT LIVING — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMP COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERR STREET MISSION — C$4,985 over 1y, 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.

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 FoundationCanada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Toronto FoundationON8.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 15 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 2024-06-30, 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 748187283:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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