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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Petersen Turofsky Charitable Foundation

The foundation was established to make grants to registered charities.

C$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$24k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$22k
C$9,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST ISLAND LGBTQ2C$12,000
STEP BY STEY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTREC$10,000
TEAM BROKEN EARTHC$9,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$9,000
SOCIETY PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATIONC$3,000
ARNOLD AUDESON SPPORT FUNDC$3,000
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$99k · 6 repeat orgsC$96k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

C$99k
C$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SB
    STEP BY STEY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$24k · revenue +33%
  • WI
    WEST ISLAND LGBTQ2
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +19%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH AID
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$18k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • TN
    TRUE NORTH AIDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k · revenue +61%
  • SB
    STEP BY STEY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$11k · revenue +24%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH AID
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k

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
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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2
Oceana Canada

Oceana canada is an independent charity dedicated solely to ocean conservation. oceana canada works with civil society academics fishers indigenous peoples and the federal government to return canada's formerly vibrant oceans to health and…

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3
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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4
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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5
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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6
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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7
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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8
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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9
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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10
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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11
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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12
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Create Change Foundation. 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. 15 of the 20 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
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 budgetSTEP BY STEY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEST ISLAND LGBTQ2 — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEP BY STEY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN CANOE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetPLASTIC OCEANS CANADA — C$8,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetOLD BREWERY MISSION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPCA OF WESTERN QUEBEC — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIETY PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCREATE CHANGE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOCEAN NORTH — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$2,000 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Toronto FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…Aqueduct FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Charitable Gift Funds…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Vancity Community FoundationBC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Toronto Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Aqueduct Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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 20 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 778295089:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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