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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation

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

C$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$28k
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$10k8 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$108k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR FAMINEC$28,000
MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CARE CANADAC$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAC$10,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$10,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCEC$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$5,000
HEALTH PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$4,000
Individual grant recipientC$2,500
PARKINSON CANADAC$2,000
NORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANKC$2,000
THE SCOTT MISSIONC$1,000
ROTARY CLUB OF STRATFORD FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$636k · 31 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
10

Total granted

C$636k
C$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+43%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MG
    MICHEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$125k · revenue +18%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR FAMINE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$78k · revenue +20%
  • UC
    UNICEF CANADA
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$70k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k · revenue +43%
  • CP
    CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEF
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +7%
  • OC
    OCEANA CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +51%

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
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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2
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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3
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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4
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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5
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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6
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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7
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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8
Canadian Trees for Life

We are a national charity committed to mobilizing empowering and inspiring tree-planting initiatives across canada. our mission is to create a healthier happier canada by planting trees where we live work and play. we eliminate hurdles…

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9
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada

Food banks canada's mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in canada. food banks canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to…

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10
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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11
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada and the most unlike its peers is Light Up the World. 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

43 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. 43 of the 45 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
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 budgetMICHEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$93,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR FAMINE — C$78,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA — C$37,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFOREST LONDON — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREE CANADA — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADDICTION SERVICES OF THAMES VALLEY FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINTER FIRST — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNTIES UNLIMITED — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORESTS ONTARIO — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD SHARE TORONTO — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONDON FOOD BANK — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ONTARIO — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARK AID STREET MISSION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEF — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RADIO CANADA — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TORONTO STAR SANTA CLAUS FUND — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT UP THE WORLD — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF STRATFORD FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE 519 SPACE FOR CHANGE — C$1,000 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.

Abundance CanadaPrivate Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Aqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Wcpd FoundationThe Schad FoundationThe Sixty Three Found…Canada GivesTd Friends of the Env…Toronto Foundation
Abundance CanadaMB9.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abundance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Schad Foundation · The Sixty Three Foundation · Canada Gives · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Toronto 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 45 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 704375096:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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