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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Blidner Family Foundation

To maintain a fund or funds and to gift all or part of the principal and income to qualified donees.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$410k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$246k
  • C$50k–250k14 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.0M
C$30,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYCREST CENTER FOUNDATIONC$410,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$300,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$290,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$175,000
MOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICESC$175,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$150,000
FORT YORK FOOD BANKC$150,000
PARKDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BANKC$150,000
KAWARTHA LAND TRUSTC$110,000
AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF ISRAELC$100,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$100,000
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$100,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATIONC$100,000
HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$80,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$14M · 32 repeat orgsC$810k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

C$14M
C$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • TW
    TORONTOGENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +83%
  • SA
    Save a Child's Heart
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +17%
  • KL
    KAWARTHA LAND TRUST
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$910k · revenue +507%

Funded once

  • UF
    UHN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$300k
  • S
    SICKKIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$160k · revenue +69%
  • FY
    FORT YORK FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · 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.

1
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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2
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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3
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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4
CityFund Foundation

The Foundation provides funds to qualified donees to further its charitable interests. Examples include: City of Toronto City of Burlington City of Brampton.

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5
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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7
Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation D'israËL Pour La Recherche Sur Le Cancer

To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.

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8
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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9
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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10
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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11
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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12
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is The Elgin County Library Board. 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

51 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. 51 of the 55 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
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 budgetBAYCREST CENTER FOUNDATION — C$4,538,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTORONTOGENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,185,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSave a Child's Heart — C$1,068,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetKAWARTHA LAND TRUST — C$910,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$640,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$550,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$501,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARKDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$350,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$320,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$310,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION — C$274,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFORT YORK FOOD BANK — C$250,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPETERBOROUGH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF ISRAEL — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$167,098 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSICKKIDS — C$160,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$145,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER CANADA — C$120,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER — C$88,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetELGIN COUNTY ARCHIVES — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$72,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK CHARITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHALOM VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISAREL FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOWER TO BE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAY UP FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSTEPS Foundation Inc. — C$25,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND LAND TRUST — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetISRAEL MUSEUMS AND ARTS CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBABY LOVE BEGINNINGS — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetREENA FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACS TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetED'S HOUSE NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONTARIO FARMLAND TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShalom Village — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$10,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION (THE PMCF) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEIZMANN CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationCanada GivesGiftpact Foundation I…Burgundy Legacy Found…Fiera Capital Foundat…The McLean FoundationThe Arthur and Margar…J.P. Bickell Foundati…United Jewish Appeal …The Asper FoundationLink Charity Canada I…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON12.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · The McLean Foundation · The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · The Asper 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 55 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 866496912:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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