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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Birch Island Foundation

Advancement of education the advancement of religion the relief of poverty and other purposes beneficial to the community as a whole through donations to qualified donees.

C$169k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$135k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIT BURSARY PROGRAMC$25,000
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETYC$25,000
NATIONAL BALLETC$25,000
CREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CROW'S THEATREC$20,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
MAJENGO CANADAC$10,000
GEORGIAN BAY LAND TRUSTC$5,000
ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCYC$5,000
EMILLY'S HOUSEC$5,000
EASTVIEW COMMUNITY CENTREC$5,000
GEORGIAN BAY FOREVERC$5,000
ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCHC$2,500
SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE CANADAC$1,500
THE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADAC$1,500
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$562k · 22 repeat orgsC$39k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
3

Total granted

C$562k
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+69%

Still filing today

95%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k 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

  • TR
    THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$110k · revenue +39%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$75k · revenue +37%
  • MC
    MAJENGO CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$65k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SK
    SICK KIDS CHARITABLE GIVING FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +69%
  • CC
    CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k
  • OB
    OUTWARD BOUND CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -1%

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
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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2
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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3
The Canadian Stage Corporation

Canadian stage produces and presents a series of contemporary performance productions at the bluma appel theatre and the berkeley street theatre. in addition the company producers shakespearean plays every summer in high park on a…

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4
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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5
Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation

Provides funding to toronto and region conservation authority for various initiatives including the following: - environment stewardship - resource science - heritage education for black creek pioneer village - small scholarship amount for…

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6
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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7
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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8
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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9
Toronto Botanical Garden

To enable Toronto Botanical Garden's mission vision and values: Mission Toronto Botanical Garden connects people and plants fostering sustainable communities and developing reciprocal relationships with nature through lifelong learning.

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10
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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11
Shakespearience Performing Arts

Deliver inclusive educational programs to young people in Grades 3-12 which cross all age academic cultural linguistic and socio- economic boundaries. Shakespearience currently offers three programs: an in-school workshop which visits more…

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12
The Ontario Parks Association Foundation

Raise funds in order to grant scholarships and bursaries for university and college students who are planning to pursue a program in parks and environment related studies.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Toronto Family Community Centre and the most unlike its peers is Crow's Theatre. 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

27 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. 27 of the 28 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)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
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 ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAJENGO CANADA — C$65,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMERIT BURSARY PROGRAM — C$45,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEMILLY'S HOUSE — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOREVER — C$19,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRAYS RESOURCES FOR AREA YOUTH — C$15,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY LAND TRUST — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH — C$13,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSICK KIDS CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEASTVIEW COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE CANADA — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAY'S PLACE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — C$7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDON'T MESS WITH THE DON — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUREA FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEVILLE FOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…Jackman FoundationWeston Family Foundat…Conam Charitable Foun…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Judy and Wilmot Matth…Private Giving Founda…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationFondation Philantra P…R. Howard Webster Fou…
Toronto FoundationON15× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Conam Charitable Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Fondation Philantra Philantra 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 28 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 703793711:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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