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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Chawkers foundation

To receive funds and contributions without any public appeal and to contribute and assist charitable organizations.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$184k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k34 grants · C$130k
  • C$10k–50k34 grants · C$737k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$234k
C$13,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WALRUS FOUNDATION (FELLOWSHIP)C$184,000
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVEC$50,000
LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADAC$40,000
QAJUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$38,333
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY/NOT FAR FROM THE TREEC$37,500
CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK CENTREC$35,000
CANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETYC$31,628
THE READING PARTNERSHIPC$30,000
RAISING THE ROOF CHEZ TOITC$30,000
BUSINESS IN THE STREETSC$30,000
GROUPE DE RECHERCHE APPLIQUÉE EN MACRO-ÉCOLOGIE (GRAME)C$25,000
CHARLIE'S FREEWHEELS YOUTH EDUCATION SOCIETYC$25,000
DATASTREAM INITIATIVEC$25,000
WATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC.C$25,000
STEPSTONES FOR YOUTHC$25,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$2.1M
Quebec
C$384k
British Columbia
C$316k
Alberta
C$314k
Manitoba
C$78k
Nunavut
C$72k
New Brunswick
C$70k
Nova Scotia
C$36k
Prince Edward Island
C$20k
Northwest Territories
C$11k
Saskatchewan
C$5k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 79 repeat orgsC$1.1M 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 +17% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
114

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$831k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+17%

Still filing today

97%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$268k 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

  • BH
    BMP HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$157k · revenue +81%
  • YT
    YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$155k · revenue +693%
  • LR
    LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$125k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BI
    BUSINESS IN THE STREETS
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA NATURALISTS
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue -21%
  • FW
    FORT WHYTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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2
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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3
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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4
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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5
Project Learning Tree Canada Apprendre par les arbres Canada

Project learning tree canada is advancing environmental education forest literacy and career pathways using trees and forests as windows on the world. this is being achieved through the development and delivery of environmental education…

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6
The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour La Conservation De La Nature

As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…

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7
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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8
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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9
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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10
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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11
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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12
Awinakola Foundation

Programs to educate and increase the public’s understanding of ecology and ecosystems sustainable resource use and the importance of conservation and restoring ecosystems. Educate the public about Indigenous climate and environmental…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation Des Gens Des Cantons De L'est Pour La Recherche Et La Culture/Townshippers Research and Cultural Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

216 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. 216 of the 224 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)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
212/216
Grantees still filing
137/216
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 budgetWalrus Foundation — C$1,559,850 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetBMP HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$157,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE — C$155,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetLITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA — C$124,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY/NOT FAR FROM THE TREE — C$107,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BOUNDARIES — C$90,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE READING PARTNERSHIP — C$80,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetRAISING THE ROOF CHEZ TOIT — C$75,571 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetQAJUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$72,333 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetROOTS TO HARVEST — C$72,333 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTREC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (RELAY EDUCATION) — C$70,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBUSINESS IN THE STREETS — C$67,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$57,333 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$57,333 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY — C$52,728 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFIDUCIE FONCIÈRE DU MONT PINACLE — C$50,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetTOWNSHIPPERS RESEARCH & CULTURAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCHARLIE'S FREEWHEELS YOUTH EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCPAWS — C$48,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNA-ME-RES (NATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE) — C$47,333 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOODGREEN RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$47,333 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRIMITIVE INTEGRATED NATURALIST EDUCATION (P.I.N.E.) — C$46,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGREEN TEAMS CANADA — C$42,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetGEST — C$40,666 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSHAD CANADA — C$39,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBREAD AND BEYOND FOUNDATION — C$38,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDavid Suzuki Foundation — C$38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC. — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESTIGOUCHE RIVER SALMON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FORESTS INTERNATIONAL — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK CENTRE — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA COUNCIL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA NATURALISTS — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHIGH PARK INITIATIVES — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetECOSPARK ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION — C$28,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetEcology North — C$28,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGREEN NEIGHBOURS NETWORKS — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNative Earth Performing Arts — C$25,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDATASTREAM INITIATIVE — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for Canada — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGROUPE DE RECHERCHE APPLIQUÉE EN MACRO-ÉCOLOGIE (GRAME) — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFORT WHYTE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 McLean FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Makeway FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …The Peter Gilgan Foun…The J W McConnell Fam…R. Howard Webster Fou…The Trottier Family F…La Fondation Rossy th…Toronto FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Td Friends of the Env…
The McLean FoundationON26.8× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · Toronto Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment 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 224 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 119222040:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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