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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Browning Watt Foundation

To receive and maintain funds and to apply them for charitable purposes

C$686k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$525k
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$25k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$81k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$56k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$525k
C$5,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$525,000
THE UPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$55,600
THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATIONC$35,000
CENTRAL CANADA PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATIONC$21,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$10,000
SOULPEPPER THEATREC$5,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYC$5,000
COTE DANSEC$5,000
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALC$5,000
RIDE TO CONQUER CANCERC$1,000
THIRTEENTH ROUNDC$1,000
NEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICESC$1,000
HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT MEMORIAL 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 16 repeat orgsC$53k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+42%

Still filing today

94%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$633k · revenue +18%
  • TU
    THE UPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$299k · revenue +104%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$190k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NY
    NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$17k
  • CO
    CAMP OOCHIGEAS
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k
  • TR
    TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (MED RES)
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +33%

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.

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University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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2
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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3
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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4
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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5
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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6
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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7
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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8
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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9
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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10
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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11
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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12
The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital

The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is C.O.P.E. Canine Opportunity People Empowerment. 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

29 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. 29 of the 32 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)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$633,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$299,200 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$190,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL CANADA PUBLIC TEVELISION ASSOCIATION — C$120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$75,876 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$68,174 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL — C$36,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,384 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSVILLE DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$7,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetC.O.P.E. CANINE OPPORTUNITY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (MED RES) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOTE DANSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ROBERTA BONDAR FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSEDALE DAY SCHOOL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL AND WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE TO CONQUER CANCER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE R. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER LIVING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — C$989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER CANADA CHORISTERS INC. — C$500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Burgundy Legacy Found…Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationBenefAction FoundationConam Charitable Foun…The Catherine and Max…Aqueduct FoundationThe Murray Frum Found…Clench House Foundati…Nick & Lynn Ross Char…La Fondation Emmanuel…Flavelle Family Found…
Burgundy Legacy FoundationON9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Murray Frum Foundation · Clench House Foundation · Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Flavelle Family 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 32 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 893019760:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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