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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bespoke Foundation

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

C$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$55k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$127k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$148k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VE'AHAVTAC$27,300
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDC$27,300
SISTERING: A WOMAN'S PLACEC$16,300
STREET HEALTHC$16,300
KEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMEC$15,300
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$14,200
KAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTREC$10,000
REENA FOUNDATIONC$9,400
CHAI-TIKVAH/LIFE & HOPE FOUNDATIONC$9,000
YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTERC$8,200
HORIZONS FOR YOUTHC$8,200
SECOND HARVESTC$7,200
FOOD SHAREC$7,200
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN OF CANADAC$5,500
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 15 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+215%

Still filing today

87%
100%

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

  • SA
    SISTERING: A WOMAN'S PLACE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$114k · revenue +46%
  • SH
    STREET HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$105k · revenue +137%
  • CC
    CAMPFIRE CIRCLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$98k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPEAKING OF DOGS RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue +215%

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
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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2
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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3
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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4
Kennedy House

To assist and rehabilitate youths by providing an alternative to large institutions in the form of small homes staffed by professionals in child care. to operate secure facility under the young offenders act. to operate a homeless shelter…

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5
The Belinda Stronach Foundation

1. belinda's place the only facility of its kind in york region provides an emergency and transitional home along with life-changing services for single homeless women

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6
Resource Assistance for Youth Inc.

Resource Assistance for Youth Inc. ('RaY') offers services and programs to street-entrenched and homeless youth aged 0 to 29. The services and programs include:- Street outreach to build relationships with street-entrenched youth - Drop-In…

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7
Mental Health Program Services of Metropolitan Toronto

Habitat services (hereinafter 'habitat) aims to improve the quality of life for persons with mental health issues living in habitat funded boarding homes and rooming houses in toronto. habitat enters into contractual agreements with…

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8
Tikva Housing Society

Provided affordable rental housing to low-income individuals and families Delivered subsidy program to assist low-income individuals and families facing temporary financial or health crisis to remain in their market rental homes and avoid…

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9
Durham Youth Services

Durham youth services offers a variety of homelessness prevention rapid rehousing and housing stabilization supports youth aged 16-24 who are at risk of or experencing homelessness. dys prevention programs include family reconnect focussed…

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10
Sakeenah Canada

Women's Transitional Homes Mental Health Foster Care The People's Market (food program). The organizations purpose is to assist those affected by spousal abuse through counselling and treatment programs. It also provides affordable and…

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11
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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12
Covenant House Toronto

As canada's largest agency serving at risk homeless and trafficked youth covenant house toronto changes lives by providing the widest range of services and support to as many as 350 youth a day. a national leader we educate and advocate…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ve'ahavta and the most unlike its peers is Chai-Tikvah Foundation. 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 16 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)
9
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVE'AHAVTA — C$188,300 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSISTERING: A WOMAN'S PLACE — C$114,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSTREET HEALTH — C$105,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$98,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI-TIKVAH/LIFE & HOPE FOUNDATION — C$94,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN OF CANADA — C$73,400 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetKEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$69,300 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetKAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTRE — C$68,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetREENA FOUNDATION — C$64,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$57,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZONS FOR YOUTH — C$56,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD SHARE — C$49,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH — C$8,400 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSPEAKING OF DOGS RESCUE — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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 VE'AHAVTA ↗
  • Who funds SISTERING: A WOMAN'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds STREET HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds CAMPFIRE CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds CHAI-TIKVAH/LIFE & HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds KEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME ↗
  • Who funds KAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds REENA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds CANADA FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH ↗
  • Who funds SPEAKING OF DOGS RESCUE ↗

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.

Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationUnited Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON8.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 16 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 802569962:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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