Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Brenton Wood Foundation
Social services
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$240k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY | C$1,200,000 |
| BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY | C$140,025 |
| HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | C$100,000 |
| SHEENA'S PLACE | C$15,000 |
| ST. VINCENT DE PAUL - HOLY ROSARY | C$5,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$120k went to new ones.
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
- MAMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · C$3.3M · revenue +37%
- BTBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY4× · 2021–2024 · C$600k · revenue +21%
- SCST.MICHAEL'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · C$25k · revenue +627%
Funded once
- CCCREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -71%
- TRTHE ROYAL REGIMENT OF CANADAone grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance Conservation Halton's critical environmental projects that protect our natural assets connect people with nature and inspire change. Fund raised support programs such as tree planting…
The purpose of the foundation is to raise capital to help finance the purchase of medical and other equipement for the barrie memorial hospital
Primary goal of the foundation is to maintain endowment funds and to receive donations to apply all or part of the income to canadore college of applied arts and technology for purposes such as scholarships.
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…
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.
Payment of scholarships each year to students of the St Malachy's High School.
Aqueduct Foundation is an independent cause-neutral foundation with donor advised legacy and charity funds. The Foundation's mission is to facilitate personal philanthropy which it carries out by making grants to Canadian qualified donees…
Ashbury College Foundation's objectives are to invest and manage the endowment fund contributions for the benefit of the College pursuant to the investment policy guidelines; to increase the endowment fund from year to year; to utilize…
To distribute the net annual income in equal shares to mcgill university and the mcgill university health centre 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 for medical charitable or educational purposes within the province of ontario…
To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.
Royal conservatory of music (the 'foundation') was incorporated under the canada corporation act of february 07 1996. the foundation has continued under the canada not-for-profit corporation act. it was created to receive and maintain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Creemore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The St Vincent De Paul Society Holy Rosary Conference. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST.MICHAEL'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEENA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST. VINCENT DE PAUL - HOLY ROSARY ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF CANADA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.