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The Balsillie Family Foundation

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C$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$76k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$690k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$2.8M
C$100,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCTIC RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$2,500,000
WRITER'S TRUST OF CANADAC$300,000
CAMBRIDGE SEL-HELP FOOD BANKC$200,000
ART CANADA INSTITUTE (ACIAC)C$140,000
GUELPH FOOD BANKC$100,000
FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGIONC$100,000
CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATIONC$100,000
3858278 CANADA FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$25,000
OPP YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATIONC$10,500
THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSC$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANKC$10,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$35M · 26 repeat orgsC$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
41

Total granted

C$35M
C$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
83%

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%’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

  • WT
    WRITER'S TRUST OF CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +68%
  • AC
    ART CANADA INSTITUTE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$780k · revenue +419%
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$515k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AR
    ARCTIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$2.6M
  • BS
    BALSILLE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +194%
  • RO
    Royal Ontario Museum
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +18%

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 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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2
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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3
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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4
The Giller Foundation

The foundation awards annual cash prizes to canadian writers for literary excellence.

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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
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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7
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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8
Canadian Network for Arts and Learning Foundation

Organization – the canadian network for arts & learning foundation was originally incorporated july 24 1996 under the name 'ontario arts education institute'. the name was changed to its current form on june 8 2012. mission to unite local…

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9
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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10
Toronto Biennial of Art

The purpose of the organization is to create a first class international visual arts biennal for the city of toronto; art festival 72 days in length engaging youth families artists communities and professionals in the arts while building…

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11
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dreamwalker Dance Company. 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

63 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. 63 of the 67 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
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 budgetARTIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$28,759,000 over 7y, 86% of budgetWRITER'S TRUST OF CANADA — C$1,286,850 over 8y, 16% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE (ACIAC) — C$780,378 over 7y, 18% of budgetFOUNDATION OF GUELPH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$515,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSPIRITWIND CHRISTIAN CENTRE OF GUELPH-GUELPH FOOD — C$500,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SEL-HELP FOOD BANK — C$500,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$400,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO-IP EDUCATION PROGRAM — C$375,081 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION — C$305,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCENTRE WELLINGOTN FOOD BANK — C$200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$195,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRoyal Ontario Museum — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTCAN CIRCLE — C$100,000 over 4y, 22% of budget3858278 CANADA FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEVERGREEN FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$74,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND RIVER CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGoodwill Industries Ontario — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM GIFT — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPP YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — C$45,894 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRANS CANADA TRAIL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Book Bank — C$40,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetJOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNAVAL ASSOC OF CANADA-OTTAWA — C$25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE OF NB — C$25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetChild Witness centre — C$21,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION — C$20,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGuelph Lake Nature Centre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CANADA CITISZENSHIP — C$19,928 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGORD DOWNIE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirls 20 Summit — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJane Goodall Institute Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErnest Manning Awards Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD PROTECTION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNG HAWK'S TRUST — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROY THOMPSON HALL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuelph Public Library — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice PEI — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN ACTION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovent House — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEELE ISLAND BIRD SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuminato-Toronto Festival of Arts, Culture — C$5,000 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.

Makeway FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…Judy and Wilmot Matth…Butterfield Family Fo…Toronto FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…Jewish Foundation of …Marilyn and Charles B…Canada GivesThe Guelph Community …The Henry White Kinne…Aqueduct Foundation
Makeway FoundationBC12.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · Butterfield Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Marilyn and Charles Baillie Family Foundation · Canada Gives · The Guelph Community Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Aqueduct 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 67 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 804212421:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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