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Thornhill, ON · Private foundation

The Barnes Family Charitable Foundation

As a private foundation its primary purpose is to receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principals and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act ( canada)

C$418k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$168k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$250k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITALC$100,000
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTHC$100,000
HURON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
HURON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$30,000
PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITALC$25,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$25,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITALC$20,000
RISEC$20,000
UNITED WAYC$12,500
CANADIAN TENNIS ASSOCIATIONC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.2M · 11 repeat orgsC$73k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

C$2.2M
C$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+126%

Still filing today

82%
71%

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

  • CF
    CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$635k · revenue +99%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$485k · revenue +59%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$270k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +64%

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
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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2
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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3
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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4
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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5
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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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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7
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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8
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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9
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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10
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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11
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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12
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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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 Rise Asset Development. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
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 budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$635,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL — C$485,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$270,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHURON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$199,303 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRISE — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA RED CROSS — C$4,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HURON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds RISE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Wish Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADA RED CROSS ↗

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 18 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 834375354:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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