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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation

To give money to qualified donees as such term is defined under the income tax act (canada) as charitable donations to be used for charitable purposes

C$383k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k20 grants · C$88k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$245k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$7,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTHC$50,000
TARRAGON THEATREC$48,000
OTHERSC$46,000
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITALC$35,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$30,000
SICK KIDSC$25,000
CAN ASSIST AFRICAN RELIEF TRUSTC$20,000
OUTSIDE THE MARCH THEATREC$18,000
FALL FOR DANCE WORTHC$13,000
NEW ISRAEL FUNDC$10,000
HUMBER COLLEGEC$8,000
STEPSC$7,000
LUMINATOC$7,000
JORGEN DANCEC$7,000
CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEFC$7,000
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$640k · 25 repeat orgsC$207k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

C$640k
C$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-11%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$83k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • JF
    JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$110k · revenue +119%
  • TM
    TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$88k · revenue +6%
  • TT
    TARRAGON THEATRE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$79k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
    one grant, 2023 · C$43k · revenue -55% · 40% of their budget
  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$30k
  • NI
    NEW ISRAEL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k

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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Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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2
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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3
CÔTÉ Danse

Côté danse's mission is to create and present original dance works and experiences in collaboration with various and diverse designers artists and partners with the goal of providing performance excellence. we continue to offer accessible…

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4
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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5
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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6
The Canadian Stage Corporation

Canadian stage produces and presents a series of contemporary performance productions at the bluma appel theatre and the berkeley street theatre. in addition the company producers shakespearean plays every summer in high park on a…

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7
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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8
The Purple Theatre Company

Produced original canadian theatre

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9
Tiger Princess Dance Projects

Creation performance presentation and touring of contemporary dance Development and delivery of educational programming Presentation of a bi-annual festival of contemporary dance

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10
Human Cargo Theatre

Human Cargo is a Toronto-based theatre company dedicated to the creation and touring of new theatrical works by bringing together theatre artists from different cultural backgrounds to create original multi-cultural productions.

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11
Nightswimming Repertory Theatre

Development and producing of Canadian theatre. We continue to commission and develop Canadian plays and contribute to the wider theatre community.

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12
Paprika Theatre Festival

Paprika Festival is a youth-led professional performing arts organization. We run year round professional training and mentorship programs that culminate in a performing arts festival of new work by young artists. We generate opportunities…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fall for Dance North Festival Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Neshama Hospice. 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

41 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. 41 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
20/41
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 budgetJUSTICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH — C$110,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$88,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTARRAGON THEATRE — C$79,200 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE THE MARCH THEATRE — C$48,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFOUNDATION OF CINEMATOGRAPHY — C$43,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCAN ASSIST AFRICAN RELIEF TRUST — C$40,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSICK KIDS — C$32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAN. CENTRE OF REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT HEALTH CARE — C$19,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFALL FOR DANCE WORTH — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AID AND RELIEF — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJORGEN DANCE — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNESHAMA HOSPICE — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S DANCE THEARTE — C$10,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCROWS THEATRE — C$9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA DANCE — C$9,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUJIWARA DANCE INVENTION — C$8,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COAL MINE THEATRE — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUMBER COLLEGE — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF TORONTO DANCE THEATRE — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARBOURFRONT CENTRE — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNIGHWOOD THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFACTORY MEDIA CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO DANCE THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITADEL AND COMPAGNIE — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE WORKS — C$3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN LANGUAGE MUSEUM — C$3,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGALLERY 44 CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAN ASIAN DANCE — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNTY STAGE COMPANY — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMINOVITCH THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$150 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.

The George Cedric Met…Ontario Arts Foundati…Lindy Green Family Fo…Toronto FoundationKingfisher FoundationThe K. M. Hunter Char…Hal Jackman FoundationThe William and Nona …The McLean FoundationThe Council for Busin…The Slaight Family Fo…The Fleck Family Foun…
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON21× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Lindy Green Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · Hal Jackman Foundation · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada · The Slaight Family Foundation · The Fleck 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 46 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 728167131:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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