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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Canavan Family Foundation

During the year various charitable initiatives were considered and several doantions were made.

C$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$50,000
CANADA'S WALK OF FAMEC$25,000
TORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE AND CREATIVITYC$20,000
REGENT PARK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONC$10,000
FRASER INSTITUTEC$10,000
WRITERS' TRUST OF CANADAC$7,500
TRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
GRAPES FOR HUMANITYC$5,000
JAY'S CARE FOUDNATIONC$5,000
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$398k · 9 repeat orgsC$201k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

C$398k
C$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$110k · revenue +18%
  • PC
    PRINCE'S CHARITIES CANADA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$75k · revenue +56%
  • CW
    CANADA'S WALK OF FAME
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$75k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEXT CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$33k
  • NC
    NEXT CANADA
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$26k · revenue -64%
  • RS
    ROYAL ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k

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
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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2
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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3
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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4
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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5
The Toronto Symphony Foundation

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.

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6
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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7
The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg

The kpmg foundation supports canadian universities and post-secondary institutions with education grants for specific purposes or programs. it facilitates an employee matching program for individual donations to post-secondary…

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8
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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9
The Arts Access Fund

The arts access fund awards scholarships to children from low income families to study visual and performing arts. funding artists providing programs to supplement the tdsb curriculum in elementary schools in underprivileged areas of…

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10
Ocad University Foundation
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11
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Olympic Foundation/ Fondation Olympique Canadienne and the most unlike its peers is Grapes for Humanity. 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 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCE'S CHARITIES CANADA — C$75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCANADA'S WALK OF FAME — C$75,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$57,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT CANADA — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmici Camping Charity — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetROYAL ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE AND CREATIVITY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAY'S CARE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph's Health Care Centre Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREGENT PARK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTRAIL'S YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINDBROOK SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAPES FOR HUMANITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThat National Ballett — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SIMCOE CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Olympic Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Remix Project — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$200 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 Slaight Family Fo…Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Jackman FoundationLa Fondation Emmanuel…Weston Family Foundat…Canada GivesR. Howard Webster Fou…BenefAction FoundationThe Delaney Family Fo…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
The Slaight Family FoundationON14.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Slaight Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Jackman Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Canada Gives · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · BenefAction Foundation · The Delaney Family Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 31 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 867257008:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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