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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Conn Smythe Foundation

To grant gifts to qualified donees

C$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$35k
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$10k2 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$120k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$35,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$25,000
FCJ REFUGEE CENTREC$20,000
LET'S GROW LEARNING AND LIVING HUBC$10,000
FOODSHARE TORONTOC$10,000
CASEY HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
KIDS UP FRONT FOUNDATIONC$10,000
HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDC$6,300
JESSIE'S THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMENC$3,000
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$807k · 11 repeat orgsC$131k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

C$807k
C$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k 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

  • PA
    PHILIP AZIZ CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$140k · revenue +44%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$95k · revenue +55%
  • FR
    FCJ REFUGEE CENTRE
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$90k · revenue +207%

Funded once

  • FR
    FCJ REFUGEE CENTRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k
  • BF
    BENEFACTION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +87%
  • N(
    NA-ME-RES (NATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE)
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +7%

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
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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3
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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4
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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5
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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6
Toronto Children's Care Inc.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Toronto provides a range of family-centred services for families with a seriously ill or injured child while they receive medical care. Our programs include an 81-room House in downtown Toronto and…

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7
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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8
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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9
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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10
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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11
StayWell Suites Charity

StayWell’s mission is to support healthcare access for patients of all ages throughout Canada including the GTA who must relocate to Toronto for critical medical care unavailable in their community. Through our reduced-cost initiatives…

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12
CityFund Foundation

The Foundation provides funds to qualified donees to further its charitable interests. Examples include: City of Toronto City of Burlington City of Brampton.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is CureSPG50. 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

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
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 budgetPHILIP AZIZ CENTRE — C$140,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO FOUNDATION — C$95,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFCJ REFUGEE CENTRE — C$90,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASEY HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$42,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO COUNCIL FIRE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBENEFACTION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GROW LEARNING AND LIVING HUB — C$10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetNA-ME-RES (NATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNISHNAWHE-ASKI LEGAL SERVICES CORP — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCURESPG 50 — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK AND LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJESSIE'S THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAVEN TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Toronto FoundationRobert Kerr FoundationSt. Andrew's Charitab…The Bickle-Wilder Fou…The Peter Gilgan Foun…The Catherine and Max…Jewish Foundation of …The Blg FoundationChum Charitable Found…Kids Up Front Foundat…F. K. Morrow Foundati…J.P. Bickell Foundati…
Toronto FoundationON13.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Blg Foundation · Chum Charitable Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · F. K. Morrow Foundation · J.P. Bickell 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 28 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 118874346:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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