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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Atkinson Charitable Foundation

Grant programs and charitable activities are focused on: promoting social and economic justice including addressing poverty and improving decent work opportunities for historically and persistently excluded groups and equity-seeking groups; public education on issues related to poverty through traditional and new media vehicles; public…

C$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$926k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$196k
  • C$50k–250k16 grants · C$1.7M
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$1.8M
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ontario Employment Education Resource CentreC$926,234
Association of Early Childhood Educators OntarioC$320,000
Toronto Metropolitan UniversityC$295,400
ACORN Institute CanadaC$263,300
Labour Community ServicesC$233,100
Toronto Assoc. of Neighbourhood ServicesC$190,000
Jamaican Canadian Association CentreC$163,000
National Aboriginal Trust Officers AssociationC$135,000
Social Planning TorontoC$125,000
Hamilton Community FoundationC$119,200
Parkdale Activity Recreation CentreC$118,600
The Governing Council of University of TorontoC$109,200
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of CanadaC$100,000
Daily Bread Food BankC$75,000
OCAD UniversityC$60,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$19M · 41 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
39

Total granted

C$19M
C$857k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+33%

Still filing today

95%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$453k 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

  • OE
    Ontario Employment Education Resource Centre
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.2M · revenue +159% · 58% of their budget
  • TA
    Toronto Association of Neighbourhood Services
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +457% · 73% of their budget
  • PA
    Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • NB
    North Bay Indigenous Friendship Centregraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$185k · revenue +92%
  • SM
    St. Michael's Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$126k · revenue +25%
  • CO
    CITY OF TORONTO/ANCHOR TORONTO
    one grant, 2019 · C$58k

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
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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2
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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3
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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4
Community Action Resource Centre in Toronto

The organization works to built capacity of their communities by mobilizing resources and providing supportive social services for the empowerment of individuals and groups focusing on serving the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.

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5
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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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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7
Toronto Youth Development

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

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8
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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9
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights Centre Canadien du Droit au logement

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in…

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10
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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11
Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (Triec)

Triec is a multi-stakeholder council that unites leaders to develop and advocate for solutions to enhance the integration of immigrants into the toronto region's labor market. its programs include the triec mentoring partnership learning…

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12
Black Health Alliance

Black Health Alliance centres Black communities in defining the challenges and barriers affecting our health and well-being. We provide a platform for Black people to establish a common voice around systemic problems and we work to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Canadian Centre of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Anduhyaun 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

87 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. 87 of the 94 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
62/87
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOntario Employment Education Resource Centre — C$5,228,565 over 8y, 58% of budgetToronto Association of Neighbourhood Services — C$1,413,434 over 8y, 73% of budgetParkdale Activity-Recreation Centre — C$1,407,188 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetLabour Community Services — C$1,390,396 over 7y, 32% of budgetRyerson University — C$1,201,116 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation of Early Childhood Educators Ontario — C$1,198,577 over 7y, 45% of budgetACORN Institute Canada — C$1,014,900 over 7y, 82% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES — C$798,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetON Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants — C$650,200 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetThe Governing Council of University of Toronto — C$641,875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Aboriginal Trust Officers Association — C$539,200 over 6y, 18% of budgetHamilton Community Foundation — C$378,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJamaican Canadian Association Centre — C$344,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY WINDSOR-ESSEX — C$324,554 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNative Canadian Centre of Toronto — C$293,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFoodShare Toronto — C$262,400 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS CHILD AND FAMILY CARING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$208,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPARKDALE QUEEN WEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$202,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ONTARIO — C$186,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre — C$185,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSocial Planning Toronto — C$178,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation — C$126,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREXDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$118,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetINDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT VICTIMS GROUP OF ONTARIO — C$96,300 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRAIDE NORT EAST ONTARIO — C$85,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCanadian Women's Foundation — C$81,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGUELPH NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITION — C$75,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK CREEK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCEE Centre for Young Black Professionals — C$74,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetToronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWellesley Institute — C$62,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOCAD University — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Change Fund — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCaribbean African Canadian Social Services — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMALVERN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetM4BJ — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBuilding Blocks for Child Care — C$50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN — C$45,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Greater Peterborough — C$38,750 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetACROSS BOUNDARIES — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSt. George's Anglican Church — C$34,300 over 3y, 11% of budgetUrban Alliance on Race Relations — C$26,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSherbourne Health Centre — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 George Cedric Met…The Catherine Donnell…Toronto FoundationLaidlaw FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…The Maytree FoundationChum Charitable Found…Fondation Écho /Echo …Makeway FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…Inspirit FoundationLa Fondation Emmanuel…
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON22.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Laidlaw Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The Maytree Foundation · Chum Charitable Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Inspirit Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso

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 94 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 119213874:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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