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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Carter Family Foundation

contributing to protection of the environment promotion of health and community development

C$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Toronto General & Western Hospital FoundationC$2,500
The Salvation ArmyC$2,000
Bruce Trail ConservancyC$1,500
Nature Conservancy CanadaC$1,000
Canadian Environment Law AssociationC$500
Living Better with Parkinson'sC$500
Environmental DefenseC$500
First Presbyterian ChurchC$500
Ontario Nature - The Federation of Ontario NaturalistsC$500
Eco JusticeC$500
Haskell Library FoundationC$500
Nature CanadaC$250
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$87k · 15 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 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

15
6

Total granted

C$87k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+45%

Still filing today

93%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$750 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

  • TG
    Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +83%
  • BT
    Bruce Trail Conservancy
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +283%
  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +21%
  • C
    CPAWSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$500 · revenue +45%
  • TB
    Toronto Botanical Gardens
    one grant, 2017 · C$500

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
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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2
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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3
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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4
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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5
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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6
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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7
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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8
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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9
The Canadian Council On Ecological Areas - Le Conseil Canadien Des Aires ÉCologiques

The canadian council on ecological areas (ccea) is a national leader in providing evidence-based guidance in the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of ecological areas to contribute to the conservation and restoration…

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10
Natureserve Canada

The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.

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11
Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada

Birds Canada is a leading national charitable organization dedicated to bird conservation. Every day our thousands of caring donors 100+ passionate staff and 70 000+ outstanding Citizen Science volunteers are taking action to help us…

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12
Wildlands League

Promote sustainable resource use - Protecting Ontario's wildlands and natural areas - Research and provide input re parks management - Educate public on importance of parks - Scientifically analyze forest policy;confer with industry on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Georgian Cycle & Ski Trail Association. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
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 budgetToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — C$19,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBruce Trail Conservancy — C$12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$12,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetOut of the Cold Foundation — C$9,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetNature Conservancy Canada — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOntario Nature - The Federation of Ontario Naturalists — C$3,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHaskell Library Foundation — C$3,600 over 7y, 11% of budgetEco justice — C$3,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEscarpment Biosphere Conservancy — C$3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Church — C$3,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$2,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEscarpment Biosphere Conservancy — C$1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgian Cycle & Ski Trail Association — C$1,700 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetLiving Better with Parkinson's — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEnvironmental Defense — C$1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCPAWS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Environment Law Association — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNature Canada — C$250 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.

Aqueduct FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Aqueduct FoundationBC7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aqueduct Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 23 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 2024-05-31, 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 818270522:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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