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Torrance, ON · Private foundation

Poile Family Foundation

Private foundation distributing funds to various qualified donees as directed by the board of directors.

C$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Michael's Hospital FoundationC$200,000
Art Gallery of OntarioC$25,000
Museum of Contemporary ArtC$25,000
McMichael Canadian Art FoundationC$5,000
Toronto Biennial of ArtC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 6 repeat orgsC$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SM
    St. Michael's Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$260k · revenue +31%
  • MO
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$130k · revenue +233%
  • AG
    Art Gallery of Ontario
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$90k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MC
    Muskoka Community Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +515% · 26% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Toronto Scholarship Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +28%
  • TF
    Toronto Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -17%

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.

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The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation

To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario

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2
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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3
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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4
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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5
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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6
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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7
Ocad University Foundation
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8
The Canadian Art Foundation
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9
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art/Centre De L'art Contemporain Canadien
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10
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Annual art fair showcasing more than 400 contemporary artists and makers held at nathan phillips square at toronto city hall as well as an online fair with around 100 artists.

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11
The Art Gallery of Windsor

Exhibitions of contemporary and historical works of major canadian and international works of art along with related educational programs. collect and preserve canadian works of art of both contemporary and historical significance.

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12
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcmichael Canadian Art Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Centre for Mindfulness Studies. 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

11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
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 budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation — C$660,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation — C$260,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art — C$130,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Centre for Mindfullness — C$55,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMercer Union A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMuskoka Community Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetUniversity of Toronto Scholarship Fund — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcMichael Canadian Art Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Biennial of Art — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Shen Family Chari…Partners in ArtThe Michael Young Fam…The Kololian Foundati…Hal Jackman FoundationToronto FoundationLynwood Family Founda…The Ouellette Family …The Jack Weinbaum Fam…Cidel FoundationAqueduct FoundationOttawa Community Foun…
The Shen Family Charitable FoundationON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shen Family Charitable Foundation · Partners in Art · The Michael Young Family Foundation · The Kololian Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Lynwood Family Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation · Cidel Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa

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 11 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 824317242:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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