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Markham, ON · Private foundation

Sofina Foundation

The foundation supports programs run by qualified donees in the areas of various children's causes.

C$393k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$141k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$47k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$155k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$191k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH CANADAC$141,480
TIM HORTON'S CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONC$50,000
STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION CANADAC$30,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$25,000
SHINE FOUNDATIONC$24,000
ARTHRITIS SOCIETY - CAMP PROGRAMC$15,000
CHLDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$11,000
WOOD GREEN FOUNDATIONC$10,000
WEST PARK FOUNDATIONC$10,000
THE DARLING HOME FOR KIDSC$10,000
SECOND HARVESTC$10,000
JIM PATTERSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$10,000
SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$5,460
TERESA DELLAR PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCEC$5,000
MARCH OF DIMESC$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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.5M · 32 repeat orgsC$522k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
20

Total granted

C$3.5M
C$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+15%

Still filing today

91%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SH
    SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +93%
  • MC
    MAKE-A-WISH CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$341k · revenue +25%
  • SF
    SUNSHINE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$264k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROMALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN ALBERTA, AN ALBE
    one grant, 2017 · C$60k
  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k
  • AC
    ARCHWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +15%

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
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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2
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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3
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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4
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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5
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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6
Kids Brain Cancer Canada Inc.

The charity receives donations on-line. a grant of $10 000 was awarded to the alberta children’s hospital foundation in support of pediatric cancer research

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7
Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation / Fondation canadienne du cancer chez l'enfant.

Funded and promoted pediatric cancer research initiatives and clinical trails. provided scholarships to childhood survivors. provided financial support to bereaved families to help cover the costs of the final arrangements for their child.…

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8
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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9
Kids Brain Health Foundation Inc.

The foundation is dedicated to raising funds to support research into neurodevelopmental disabilities in children. the foundation funds kids brain health network research as well as the implementation of its discoveries. kids brain health…

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10
Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation/ Fondation Canadienne Du Cancer Chez L'enfant

Funded and promoted pediatric cancer research initiatives and clinical trials. provided scholarships to childhood survivors. provided financial support to bereaved families to help cover the costs of the final arrangements for their child.…

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11
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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12
Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund

SickKids Charitable Giving Fund (a public charity) offers donors an opportunity to support their favourite charities through donor advised funds. Donors establish their own named fund and make irrevocable gifts to the fund while explicitly…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants and the most unlike its peers is Hospice Toronto. 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

50 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. 50 of the 56 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)
44/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
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 budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,010,169 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$341,480 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION — C$264,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$205,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$180,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION CANADA — C$162,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$135,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHLDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$127,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJIM PATTERSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP OOCH AN DBAMP TRILLIUM CORPORATION — C$102,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALBERTA CAPITAL REGION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM OSLER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$74,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMLSE FOUNDATION — C$67,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$60,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROMALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN ALBERTA, AN ALBE — C$60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE TORONTO — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARCHWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIM HORTON'S CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKID'S HELP LINE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE RIVER FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DARLING HOME FOR KIDS — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP CIRCLE O'FRIENDS INC. — C$35,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOPSITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNIB — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFONDATION CHU SAINTE-JUSTINE/SAINTE-JUSTINE UCH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY - CAMP PROGRAM — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF WE CARE INC. — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOOD GREEN FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PARK FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPEC — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSROPHY CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOOST CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERESA DELLAR PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ALBERTA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANNY ANGEL NETWORK INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEUCAN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD 4 KID — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIT-ACTIVE-BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…Toronto FoundationJewish Foundation of …THE BRETTLER/Mintz Fo…The Kpmg Foundation/L…Alice and Murray Mait…Charitable Gift Funds…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Kids Up Front Foundat…Mobile Giving Foundat…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Mobile Giving Foundation Canada / Fondation des dons mobiles du Canada

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 56 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 840552434:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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