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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Buchan Family Foundation

To receive funds and contributions and to maintain funds to provide gifts of capital and/or income to various qualified donees.

C$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SYNAPSE INC.C$50,000
HEART AND STROKEC$10,000
BRILLIANT MINDED WOMENC$10,000
FOOD BANKS CANADAC$5,000
ARK AID STREET MISSIONC$3,000
GEMELLI SOCIAL CLUB INC.C$3,000
MUSKOKA LAKES MUSEUMC$2,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$290k · 7 repeat orgsC$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

C$290k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+32%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • BM
    BRILLIANT MINDED WOMEN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$50k · revenue ×14
  • PC
    PINBALL CLEMONS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$41k · revenue +238%
  • RP
    Regent Park School of Music
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$36k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • WS
    West Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centregraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +32%
  • TP
    True Patriot Love Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +9%
  • TQ
    THE QUIET IMMIGRANT WEST
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k

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
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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2
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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3
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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4
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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5
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
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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8
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

1. funds researchers working in universities hospitals and research institutes across ontario. 2. provides the public with health information and education programs on preventing and managing heart disease and stroke. 3. provides…

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9
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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10
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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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 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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Patriot Love Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Muskoka Lakes Museum Port Carling. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
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 budgetBRILLIANT MINDED WOMEN FOUNDATION — C$49,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetPINBALL CLEMONS FOUNDATION — C$41,100 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRegent Park School of Music — C$36,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEBUILDERS INTERNATIONAL — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEART AND STROKE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARK AID STREET MISSION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKOKA LAKES MUSEUM — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYCREST — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FoundationUnited Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Toronto FoundationON6.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.

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 17 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 891027948:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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