Toronto, ON · Public foundation
Peter Gzowski Foundation for Literacy
The PETER GZOWSKI FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY is a public foundation that provides funds to charitable organizations that are involved in liteay activity and promote public awareness of literacy at the local level
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEI LITERACY ALLIANCE | C$16,950 |
| JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF MANITOBA | C$12,000 |
| LITERACY HAIDA GWAII | C$12,000 |
| CANLEARN SOCIETY | C$12,000 |
| LITERACY NEW BRUNSWICK | C$12,000 |
| LITERACY NOVA SCOTIA | C$12,000 |
| READ SASKATOON | C$12,000 |
| YAMASKA LITERACY COUNCIL | C$12,000 |
| NWY LITERACY COUNCIL | C$12,000 |
| YUKON LEARN SOCIETY | C$12,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTRE ALLICANCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRA | C$12,000 |
| FRONTIER COLLEGE | C$11,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Which regions your grants reach
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k went to new ones.
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
- PLPEI LITERACY ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2023 · C$32k · revenue +290%
- RSREAD SASKATOON6× · 2017–2023 · C$32k · revenue +123%
- YLYUKON LEARN SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · C$32k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- AHANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -51%
- JHJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF MANITOBAone grant, 2020 · C$4k
- LHLiteracy Haida Gwalione grant, 2019 · C$3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Family literacy financial literacy youth financial literacy constructing effective literacy & learning societies skills for success training and education partnership development work social enterprise training & development tourism &…
Education and facilitation for Indigenous Elders and adults to learn English literacy skills.
Pathways to Learning - adult tutoring in reading writing math financial literacy digital literacy English as a second or additional language Navigators - Assistance filling out forms and applications referrals to other programs and…
The Community Learning Network (CLN) cultivates and promotes the advancement of community-based learning in Alberta by providing training support and resources to our networks. Based on identified trends needs and issues in community adult…
The Hamilton Literacy Council supports adult learners in the development of foundational literacy skills by providing one to one tutoring small group classes and digital technology classes. The Council also provides workplace essential…
The saskatchewan literacy network promotes & supports literacy within the province through; 1) resource development 2) field development 3) developing levels 1 & 2 literacy benchmarks 4) communication 5) family literacy training 6) learner…
The literacy alliance of west nipissing provides services under ontario's literacy and basic skills program. the service helps adults develop and apply communication numeracy interpersonal and digital skills to achieve their goals.
The Laurentian Literacy Centre is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving basic and functional proficiency in reading writing speaking listening numeracy and life skills. Our programs are adapted to the needs and goals of…
One on one literacy/numeracy training for adults. small group literacy classes for adults and computer training for adults
The organization assists various literacy programs in eastern ontario. these programs include the assesment and literacy training of any individual in kingston and surrounding areas who requires upgrading of the basic literacy skills. in…
Adult literacy program that provides full and part-time instruction to adult learners in the south temiskaming region in reading writing numeracy computer and life skills. services are provided by staff and supplemented by volunteer…
After school tutoring program summer tutoring program lending library and technology training specialized reading tutoring; specialized math tutoring; navigation and advocacy support; empowerment and awareness; assistive technology…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N.W.T. Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Anishnawbe Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PEI LITERACY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds READ SASKATOON ↗
- Who funds YUKON LEARN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTRE ALLICANCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRA ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NWY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW BRUNSWICK ↗
- Who funds YAMASKA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NOVA SCOTIA ↗
- Who funds LITERACY HAIDA GWAII ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF MANITOBA ↗
- Who funds CAN LEARN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANISHNAWBE HEALTH 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.
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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.