Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Pitblado Foundation
Receiving and managing funds for the exclusive purpose of making gifts to other registered 'qualified donees' primarily in toronto including festivals theaters hospitals and other selected community causes.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$23k
- C$10k–50k10 grants · C$108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS UMBRELLA | C$15,000 |
| KAWARTHA LAND TRUST | C$12,500 |
| CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM | C$10,000 |
| KIDS HELP PHONE | C$10,000 |
| CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FDN | C$10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA | C$10,000 |
| SOULPEPPER THEATRE CO | C$10,000 |
| CROW'S THEATRE | C$10,000 |
| SICKKIDS FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| STRATFORD FESTIVAL | C$10,000 |
| DREAMWALKER DANCE COMPANY | C$7,500 |
| TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| HOT DOCS | C$5,000 |
| WRITERS TRUST | C$5,000 |
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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- AUARTS UMBRELLA8× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +114%
- SFSTRATFORD FESTIVAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +24%
- CTCROW'S THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +357%
Funded once
- KLKAWARTHA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2020 · C$5k
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.
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…
Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…
Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.
Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…
The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…
Develop produce and present canadian plays thereby supporting and nourishing the canadian theatre scene playwrights and actors with a focus on supporting artists from diverse communities - provide artists support through development…
Paprika Festival is a youth-led professional performing arts organization. We run year round professional training and mentorship programs that culminate in a performing arts festival of new work by young artists. We generate opportunities…
Advancement of excellence in canadian theatre by maleiry grants and awards to theatre artists in canada.
Toronto-based performing arts company committed to ensemble collaborations through its work with guest artists, sponsors and the community.
Tarrgon theater creates develops and produces new canadian theatre that illuminates the diversity and complexsity of the conteporary human experence. tarragon trains and supports new generation emerging and established artist theorug…
The theatre museum corporation canada's theatre museum fosters public awareness of our performing arts heritage with online and in-person programming including exhibitions public learning events and caring for artifacts in its collection.
Produced original canadian theatre
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soulpepper Theatre Company and the most unlike its peers is Dreamwalker Dance Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 ARTS UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CROW'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA ↗
- Who funds SOULPEPPER THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KIDS HELP PHONE ↗
- Who funds SICKKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREANWALKER DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WRITERS TRUST ↗
- Who funds TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAWARTHA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOT DOCS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TORONTO DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDLING THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Music Heals Charitable 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.
Open a dossier: Canada Gives · The McLean Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun · Hal Jackman Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Aqueduct 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.