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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Barrett Family Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the prinicpal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.6M
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

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$817k
  • C$250k+15 grants · C$12M
C$400,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HUMBER COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANDC$1,630,000
YMCA OF GREATER TORONTOC$1,500,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$1,500,000
RIDEAU HALL FOUNDATIONC$1,500,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$1,250,000
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$750,000
ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF ONTARIOC$750,000
THE DURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$579,660
ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION OF TORONTOC$500,000
S.H.A.R.E. AGRICULTURE FOUNDATIONC$400,000
MARCH OF DIMES CANADAC$400,000
VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$350,000
GIRL GUIDES OF CANADAC$333,333
YWCA OF GREATER TORONTOC$300,000
ARMAGHC$300,000
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$16M · 20 repeat orgsC$8.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

C$16M
C$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • HC
    Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$6.5M · revenue +53%
  • WV
    WORLD VISION
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$4.2M · revenue +6%
  • UO
    University of Guelph
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • OH
    ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION HIGHWAY OF HEROES
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue -69%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA (CAF CANADA)graduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +45%
  • II
    ICFC: INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +72%

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
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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3
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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4
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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5
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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6
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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7
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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8
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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9
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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10
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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11
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charities Aid Foundation Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Safehaven Project for Community Living. 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

41 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. 41 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
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 budgetHumber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning — C$6,480,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$4,240,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$2,100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetS.H.A.R.E. AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — C$925,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$854,390 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$750,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE DURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$579,660 over 1y, 12% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION OF TORONTO — C$500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA — C$373,333 over 5y, 28% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetARMAGH — C$300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN TREES FOR LIFE — C$200,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetWorld Wild Life Fund Canada — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CANADA — C$166,667 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetToronto Community Foundation — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrillium Health Partners Foundation — C$140,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY CANADA — C$124,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCCPTA/WNED TV (CENTRAL CANADIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIA... — C$120,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION HIGHWAY OF HEROES — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$100,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCRIMINAL INFANT & CHILD CARE CENTRES — C$75,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE — C$60,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA (CAF CANADA) — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAFEHAVEN PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFS Interculture Canada — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Rangers — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetICFC: INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BOOK BANK — C$15,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAFS INTERCULTURE CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWOMEN'S HABITAT — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBACK DOOR MISSION FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTVO — C$1,200 over 1y, 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.

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 FoundationJackman FoundationWeston Family Foundat…The Willowool Foundat…The Dalglish Family F…Private Giving Founda…Ontario Power Generat…BenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Burgundy Legacy Found…Wcpd FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…
Toronto FoundationON13.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Willowool Foundation · The Dalglish Family Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster

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 42 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 2024-11-30, 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 823257530:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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