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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation

Donating funds to other registered charities.

C$9.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
229
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 229 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k175 grants · C$3.6M
  • C$50k–250k40 grants · C$3.5M
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$2.6M
C$25,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$223M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salvation Army (The)C$700,000
Canadian Opera Company (The)C$550,000
Daily Bread Food BankC$500,000
Hospital For Sick Children FoundationC$400,000
National Ballet of Canada (The)C$250,000
Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness in CanadaC$250,000
Soulpepper Theatre CompanyC$200,000
Regional Food Distribution Association of NorthwesternC$200,000
Queen's UniversityC$200,000
Pathways to EducationC$200,000
Food Banks MississaugaC$175,000
Second Harvest CanadaC$150,000
Art Gallery of OntarioC$150,000
Habitat for Humanity GTAC$120,000
Rekai Centres (The)C$100,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$51M · 254 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

254 repeat relationships — 205 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

254
82

Total granted

C$51M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

97%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$360k 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

  • SA
    Salvation Army (The)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +253%
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +42%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$2.3M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • KP
    Kerry's Place Autism Services
    one grant, 2022 · C$94k · revenue +12%
  • WM
    Windmill Microlendinggraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +51%
  • GM
    GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMICS
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k

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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Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
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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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
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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5
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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6
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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7
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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8
Shakespearience Performing Arts

Deliver inclusive educational programs to young people in Grades 3-12 which cross all age academic cultural linguistic and socio- economic boundaries. Shakespearience currently offers three programs: an in-school workshop which visits more…

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9
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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10
Arthouse for Children and Youth

ArtHouse is a Halton-based charitable organization that offers free programs to vulnerable children and youth from 7-17 most particularly to individuals from families who may not have access to arts-related activities. Since 2009 Arthouse…

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11
Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre

Art starts inspires and cultivate social change by bringing professional artist and toronto residents together to create community building art projects in all artistic diciplines. art starts provides responsive and relevant creative…

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12
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf. 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

340 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. 340 of the 360 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)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
335/340
Grantees still filing
254/340
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSalvation Army (The) — C$5,300,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Opera Company (The) — C$4,550,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$2,500,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA (THE) — C$2,300,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSoulpepper Theatre Company — C$1,700,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$1,575,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$1,400,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$1,050,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Canada — C$775,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetToronto Public Library Foundation — C$680,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetQueen's University — C$650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Banks Mississauga — C$645,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetRegional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern — C$600,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAutism Society Ontario — C$579,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCanadian Alliance to End Homelessness in Canada — C$500,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNorth York Harvest Food Bank — C$455,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetStreet Health Community Nursing Foundation — C$455,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDeafBlind Ontario Services — C$441,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGardiner Museum (The) — C$400,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$400,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra (The) — C$400,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSTREET HAVEN AT THE CROSSROADS — C$385,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$355,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetStratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada — C$350,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFred Victor Centre — C$330,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCampfire Circle — C$328,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHope Air — C$320,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSistema Toronto — C$305,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of York Region — C$297,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUp with Women — C$295,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Canada Non-Profit Housing Corporation — C$285,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Centres Canada — C$275,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCasey House Foundation — C$260,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMacaulay Centres for Children — C$255,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSKETCH — C$255,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWOOD GREEN FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSunshine Centre For Seniors — C$240,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetShaw Festival Theatre Canada — C$240,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetYWCA Toronto — C$235,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetScott Mission (The) — C$235,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMusical Stage Company — C$215,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — C$215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAUTISM DOG SERVICES INC. — C$205,000 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetHot Docs — C$205,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRekai Centres (The) — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds Salvation Army (The) ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Opera Company (The) ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA (THE) ↗
  • Who funds Soulpepper Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds Daily Bread Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Art Gallery of Ontario ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Canada ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Public Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Queen's University ↗
  • Who funds Food Banks Mississauga ↗
  • Who funds Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern ↗
  • Who funds Autism Society Ontario ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness in Canada ↗
  • Who funds North York Harvest Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Street Health Community Nursing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DeafBlind Ontario Services ↗
  • Who funds Gardiner Museum (The) ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Symphony Orchestra (The) ↗
  • Who funds STREET HAVEN AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Fred Victor Centre ↗
  • Who funds Campfire Circle ↗
  • Who funds Hope Air ↗
  • Who funds Sistema Toronto ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Food Bank of York Region ↗
  • Who funds Up with Women ↗
  • Who funds March of Dimes Canada Non-Profit Housing Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Centres Canada ↗
  • Who funds Casey House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Macaulay Centres for Children ↗
  • Who funds SKETCH ↗
  • Who funds WOOD GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sunshine Centre For Seniors ↗
  • Who funds Shaw Festival Theatre Canada ↗

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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…The George Lunan Foun…The McLean FoundationRobert Kerr FoundationTippet FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…Jackman FoundationHodgson Family Founda…The Slaight Family Fo…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Alice and Murray Mait…The Charles H. Ivey F…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON51.2× affinity118 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Tippet Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hodgson Family Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · The Charles H. Ivey 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 360 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 119220515:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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