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The Bruce H. Mitchell Foundation at a glance

Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bruce H. Mitchell Foundation

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C$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$7.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$180k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$610k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$11M
C$40,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$310M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$7,025,000
THE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATIONC$1,320,017
ST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$1,145,000
RIDLEY COLLEGEC$1,000,020
GOLF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$250,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITYC$150,000
THE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$110,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$100,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$100,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$50,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$50,000
WEST PARK HEALTHCARE CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$40,000
URBAN SQUASH TORONTOC$25,000
TORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$25,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$2.2B · 26 repeat orgsC$440k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

C$2.2B
C$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$131k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    THE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.1B · revenue +33%
  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1B · revenue +27% · 99% of their budget
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.8M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALL
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue -25%
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL - HBS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · C$33k
  • MC
    MS CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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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2
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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3
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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4
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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5
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
The Stratas Foundation

Distributed (2) scholarships and/or private research grants to Canadian students and/or scholars at accredited universities or research centers in Canada. Each award was allocated toward a mental health research program intended to advance…

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10
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

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

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11
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uhn Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Ridley College Foundation. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: C$1,130,000,020 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY: C$1,087,560,000 over 8y, 99% of budgetST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION: C$2,817,400 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATION: C$2,010,017 over 3y, 89% of budgetTHE RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: C$1,750,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetCanadian Institute for Advanced Research: C$950,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPathways to Education: C$705,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCentre for Addiction & Mental Health: C$600,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: C$350,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSICKKID'S FOUNDATION: C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO: C$145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL: C$106,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MOSAIC INSTITUTE: C$100,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALL: C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CANADIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: C$94,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetArthritis research Foundation: C$60,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetALS SOCIETY CANADA: C$55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEUCHATEL JUNIOR COLLEGE FUND: C$50,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY: C$41,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION: C$41,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST PARK HEALTHCARE CENTRE FOUNDATION: C$40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTT MISSION: C$37,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBHUTAN CANADA FOUNDATION: C$35,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMS CANADA: C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION: C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetURBAN SQUASH TORONTO: C$25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION: C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION: C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHNS AND COLITIS CANADA: C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARISTOTLE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY: C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCARITAS SCHOOL OF LIFE: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLet's Talk Science: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELI'S PLACE: C$10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS: C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ONTARIO: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation of Canada: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA: C$5,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORILLIA SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCDERMOTT HOUSE CANADA MAISON MCDERMOTT CANADA: C$5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba: C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Leacock Foundation: C$2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER: C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND: C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA INC.: C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy of Canadian Cinema & Television: C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Toronto FoundationOakville Community Fo…Aqueduct FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…Weston Family Foundat…Canada GivesJewish Foundation of …Butterfield Family Fo…Jackman FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Private Giving Founda…BenefAction Foundation
Toronto FoundationON16.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Oakville Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Canada Gives · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Butterfield Family Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the 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 806425104:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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