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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bennett Family Foundation

Provide financial assistance to various qualified donees and educational institutions.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$175k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$860k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$2.1M
C$100,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$600,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATOR TORONTOC$500,000
YORK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$500,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$270,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATIONC$250,000
TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$160,000
HOT DOCSC$100,000
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALC$100,000
YVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERSC$100,000
MT. SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$100,000
THE CITIZENS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
COSTIC$50,000
IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL- UBUNTU MANAGEMENT EDUCATION INITIATIVEC$40,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$18M · 45 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
18

Total granted

C$18M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+16%

Still filing today

98%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$175k 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

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$3.0M · revenue +12%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$2.6M · revenue +34%
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERTSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.0M
  • SF
    SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +60%
  • TP
    TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k

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.

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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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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6
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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7
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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8
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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9
The Toronto Symphony Foundation

The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.

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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
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anishnawbe Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hot Docs. 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

62 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. 62 of the 66 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
40/62
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 budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$3,000,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$2,620,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATOR TORONTO — C$2,450,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYORK UNIVERTSITY FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION — C$1,250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$1,228,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES — C$662,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$510,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF TORONTO — C$400,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$282,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$237,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOSTI — C$235,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINNOCENCE CANADA FOUNDATION — C$230,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetMT. SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOXFAM-CANADA — C$167,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORICA CANADA — C$150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — C$149,820 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE FOR EDUCATION — C$140,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$72,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLUMINATO TORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE AND CREATIVITY — C$70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBALLET JORGEN — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOURFRONT DEVELOPMENT — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIES FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES — C$36,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTROPICANA COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTHORS AT HABOURFRONT — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN BRICK WORKS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FDN — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCONCERT IN CARE — C$25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetJANE FINCH COMMUNITY & FAMILY CENTRE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 FoundationHal Jackman FoundationThe Azrieli Foundatio…The McLean FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…La Fondation Emmanuel…Jackman FoundationThe George Cedric Met…The Fleck Family Foun…The William and Nona …The Slaight Family Fo…Link Charity Canada I…
Toronto FoundationON17.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The McLean Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Jackman Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Fleck Family Foundation · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc

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 66 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 889472643:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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