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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Acapella Foundation

Donate funds to Toronto-based children programs whose goals are to improve the quality of life

C$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of WaterlooC$50,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$199k · 5 repeat orgsC$77k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

C$199k
C$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$150k · revenue +14%
  • TR
    The Redwood
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$11k · revenue +25%
  • GE
    Girls E-Mentorship
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$11k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • M
    Musicountsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$33k · revenue +38%
  • SW
    Sketch Working Arts
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue -52%
  • BC
    Black Creek Community Farm
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k

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
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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2
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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3
University of Toronto Schools

University of toronto schools (uts) is a university preparatory school grade 7-12 affiliated with the university of toronto (u of t). uts offers high achieving students a specialized curriculum and a unique co-educational learning…

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4
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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5
Urban Squash Toronto

UST combines an intensive after-school 7 days-a-week year-long education program with concentrated athletics (principally squash). The mission of Urban Squash Toronto (UST) is to empower and inspire underserved youth in the Jane and Finch…

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6
Tech Spark Canada

Tech Spark is Canadas first tech and design school committed to empowering children of colour girls women and teachers through innovative education. We specialize in creating revising and teaching inquiry-based student-centered K-12…

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7
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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8
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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9
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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10
Stemhub Foundation

Our programs include: STEMing which offers creative free hands-on and team-based STEM workshops on various STEM topics to students (focus group: Grade 2 - 12) in underserved communities across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Ontario Canada.

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11
For Youth Initiative in Toronto

The organization provides programs to create and foster an inclusive environment where youth and adult representatives of the diverse community of york in the city of toronto can work in partnership to address youth needs and issues and…

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12
Magenta Publishing for the Arts

The flash forward incubator program gives young artists and educators an ability to work together to create dynamic learning experiences and resources that optimize student learning and set them on a path to success as they develop their…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is The Redwood...for Women and Children Fleeing Abuse. 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMusicounts — C$32,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOODSHARE — C$16,839 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Redwood — C$10,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrain Tumor Foundation of Canada — C$10,720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGirls E-Mentorship — C$10,720 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSketch Working Arts — C$5,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVisions of Science Network for Learning — C$5,360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$5,119 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$5,116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND UP FROM HUNGER TORONTO — C$5,116 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNIA CENTRE FOR THE ART — C$1,247 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK YOUTH HELPLINE — C$1,247 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FoundationThe McLean FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…Charities Aid Foundat…Toronto District Scho…The Catherine and Max…Canada GivesJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Calgary FoundationAqueduct FoundationBenefAction Foundation
Toronto FoundationON10.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Toronto District School Board · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Canada Gives · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Calgary Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction 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.

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 16 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 888746542:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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