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Private Giving Foundation

The PGF was established to support and increase charitable giving in Canada.

C$132M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4,982
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
Regions reached
C$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 4982 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3704 grants · C$7.9M
  • C$10k–50k904 grants · C$17M
  • C$50k–250k292 grants · C$27M
  • C$250k+82 grants · C$80M
C$2,469
Median grant
19
Regions reached
C$972M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$10,000,000
REDEEMER UNIVERSITYC$7,000,000
SHALOM MANOR LONG TERM CARE HOMEC$3,000,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRENC$2,975,000
PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$2,019,000
VICTORIA HUMANE SOCIETYC$2,000,000
PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$1,980,000
INDWELL COMMUNITY HOMESC$1,900,000
THE TORONTO SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONC$1,700,000
CRANDALL UNIVERSITYC$1,500,000
DORTDT COLLEGEC$1,360,000
CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONSC$1,300,000
THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATIONC$1,270,000
THE SAMARITANS PURSE-CANADAC$1,255,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$1,250,000
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Giving at home: 63% of grant dollars (C$466M). The 37% that went abroad (C$274M) is mapped below.

Which regions its grants reach

Ontario
C$330M
British Columbia
C$48M
Alberta
C$30M
Quebec
C$22M
New Brunswick
C$14M
Nova Scotia
C$7.2M
Manitoba
C$4.2M
Saskatchewan
C$3.4M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$277k
Prince Edward Island
C$124k
Nunavut
C$42k
Yukon
C$6k
Northwest Territories
C$4k

Beyond home: 37% of all-years giving (C$274M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$1.6M · 38 grants
How this is measured
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$514M · 1352 repeat orgsC$179M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

1352 repeat relationships: 800 still active in FY2024, 552 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1352
592

Total granted

C$514M
C$161M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+21%

Still filing today

31%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • RU
    REDEEMER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2022 · C$9.3M · revenue +69%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    2× · 2017–2022 · C$4.7M · revenue +43%
  • TS
    THE SAMARITANS PURSE-CANADA
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$3.6M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHAMPSEE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$9.5M · revenue -75%
  • RU
    REDEEMER UNIVERSITY Total
    one grant, 2023 · C$7.0M
  • MC
    MACLELLAN - CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · C$6.6M · revenue -93% · 100% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Its field
03the grantee network

549 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 549 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

41
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
124
Early backer (in before they grew)
537/549
Grantees still filing
430/549
Grew since first funded

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY: C$9,320,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMACLELLAN - CHARITABLE TRUST: C$6,561,815 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: C$4,717,343 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO: C$4,326,605 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SAMARITANS PURSE-CANADA: C$3,572,495 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA: C$3,522,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY: C$3,475,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetINDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES: C$3,300,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION: C$2,496,611 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION: C$2,395,559 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWORLD RENEW: C$2,250,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION: C$2,122,469 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCRANDALL UNIVERSITY: C$2,100,536 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY: C$1,876,246 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA): C$1,855,450 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSHALOM MANOR LONG TERM CARE HOME: C$1,790,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION: C$1,699,690 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBETH ESTHER ACADEMY INC: C$1,650,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetWORD & DEED MINISTRIES CANADA INC: C$1,458,200 over 2y, 11% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIO: C$1,457,843 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$1,397,162 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEGALE CANADA - HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST/FONDS EAGLE CANADA POUR L: C$1,340,968 over 3y, 27% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY: C$1,277,834 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD STUDENT NETWORK OF OTTAWA: C$1,224,793 over 2y, 75% of budgetTHE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL IN CANADA: C$1,223,212 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: C$1,209,333 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION (CANADA) INC: C$1,160,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: C$1,152,295 over 2y, 12% of budgetCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED: C$1,110,092 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBENEFACTION FOUNDATION: C$1,106,144 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK: C$1,101,018 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: C$1,100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA: C$1,034,552 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetARTHRITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: C$1,002,816 over 3y, 28% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO: C$1,002,151 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREE CANADA: C$1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHUGHSON STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: C$1,000,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetGRACE VALLEY CHURCH (DUNDAS): C$1,000,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMATT RUMPEL FAMILY FOUNDATION: C$930,334 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY: C$913,442 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO: C$886,588 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION: C$875,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION: C$835,552 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE: C$832,321 over 3y, 99% of budgetCOMPASSION CANADA: C$825,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCLAREN ACADEMY SOCIETY: C$809,270 over 1y, 27% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER TORONTO AREA: C$800,652 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITABLE GIFT FUNDS CANADA FOUNDATION: C$777,555 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHAMPSEE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REDEEMER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MACLELLAN - CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds THE SAMARITANS PURSE-CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fondation Sandra Schm…Goel Family Charitabl…Burgundy Legacy Found…Nick & Lynn Ross Char…Jewish Community Foun…The Voortman Foundati…Otto and Marie Pick F…The Sixty Three Found…RCMP Veterans' Associ…The Rogan FoundationUhn FoundationClearwater Charitable…
Fondation Sandra Schmirler FoundationON15.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation · Goel Family Charitable Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · The Voortman Foundation · Otto and Marie Pick Foundation · The Sixty Three Foundation · RCMP Veterans' Association Foundation · The Rogan Foundation · Uhn Foundation · Clearwater Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 857210744:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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