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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Chêne Foundation

To make donations to canadian registered charities and qualified donees

C$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$115k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$20,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$15,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATIONC$15,000
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADAC$15,000
MASSEY COLLEGEC$10,000
OCEANA CANADAC$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADAC$10,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$10,000
ANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
OXFORD-CANADA SCHOLARSHIPC$5,000
RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS IN CANADAC$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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$115k · 6 repeat orgsC$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

C$115k
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$25k · revenue +43%
  • AH
    AMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue ×12
  • RS
    RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS IN CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • LA
    LANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +8%
  • LM
    LANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +15%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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3
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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4
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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5
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Canada
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6
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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7
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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8
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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9
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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10
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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11
Universities Canada Universités Canada

Universities canada is the national voice for canadian universities. universities canada represents 96 public and private not-for-profit universities and university degree-level colleges. we are a membership organization providing…

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12
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhodes Scholarships in Canada and the most unlike its peers is University of British Columbia. 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

15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
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 — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S SAFE SHELTER AND CRISIS SERVICES — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRHODES SCHOLARSHIPS IN CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOCEANA CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD-CANADA SCHOLARSHIP — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 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.

Private Giving Founda…Vancity Community Fou…BenefAction FoundationToronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…Strategic Charitable …CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
Private Giving FoundationON8.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Vancouver Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)

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 15 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 795281542:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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