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Canadian charities

Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Sarah & Cary Lavine Family Foundation

To provide funds to 'qualified donees' as defined in the income tax act.

C$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$89k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$250k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARGARET'S HOUSINGC$75,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$75,000
KEHILLAC$50,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$50,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND CANADAC$49,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$15,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$15,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$10,000
SOCIAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH COUNCIL OF HAMILTONC$5,750
CLEAN ECONOMY FUNDC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$5,000
COVENANT HOUSE TORONTOC$1,500
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$979k · 8 repeat orgsC$137k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

C$979k
C$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$137k 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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$245k · revenue +101%
  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$225k · revenue +133%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$200k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MH
    MARGARET'S HOUSING
    one grant, 2024 · C$75k · revenue 0%
  • K
    KEHILLA
    one grant, 2024 · C$50k · revenue 0%
  • SP
    SOCIAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH COUNCIL OF HAMILTON
    one grant, 2024 · C$6k · revenue 0%

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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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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2
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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3
The Toronto Public Library Foundation

The toronto public library foundation (tplf) raises funds that amplify and accelerate the exceptional work of toronto public library (tpl). donations have a resounding impact on those who rely on tpl's programs services and community…

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4
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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5
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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6
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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7
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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8
C.D. Howe Institute

The c.d. howe institute is a registered charity and an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. widely considered to be canada's most…

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9
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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10
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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11
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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12
Toronto Botanical Garden

To enable Toronto Botanical Garden's mission vision and values: Mission Toronto Botanical Garden connects people and plants fostering sustainable communities and developing reciprocal relationships with nature through lifelong learning.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc.. 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

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$245,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARELTON UNIVERSITY — C$159,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARGARET'S HOUSING — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND CANADA — C$69,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKEHILLA — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH COUNCIL OF HAMILTON — C$5,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN ECONOMY FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$1,500 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.

Toronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Toronto FoundationON7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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 13 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 721057883:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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