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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The D.H. Gordon Foundation

For advancement of religion education & relief of poverty in canada.

C$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$111k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOUNDLESS ADVENTURES ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
BRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE INCC$25,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF TORONTOC$15,000
CHARITY OF HOPEC$15,000
CANADIAN COUNCIL OF PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL SPORT FEDERATC$11,166
APLASTIC ANEMIA & MYELODYSPLASIA ASSOCIATION OF CANADAC$10,000
AMICI CAMPING CHARITYC$10,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 41 repeat orgsC$199k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
11

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

93%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • LC
    LANSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$215k · revenue +47%
  • SC
    SIMCOE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$158k · revenue +271% · 27% of their budget
  • TS
    THE ST CHRISTOPHER HOUES
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$125k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CL
    Community Living Dufferingraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$68k · revenue +81%
  • EH
    EL HOGAR PROJECTS (CANADA)
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k
  • PY
    PETERBOROUGH YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +5%

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
Community Living Toronto

Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…

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2
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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3
Canadian Disability Foundation

The Canadian Disability Foundation ('CDF') is Canada’s national disability organization. Established to provide philanthropic support services and innovative social solutions CDF helps the more than 8 million disabled Canadians to be…

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4
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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5
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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6
Participation House Toronto

The organization provides upport care services and accessible housing to adults with physical and developmental disabilities so that they can live independantly. services include assistance with dressing bathing houskeeping and meal…

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7
Cota Health

Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…

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8
New Visions Toronto

Mission Statement: 'To support connect and advocate for full community inclusion for people with disabilities'. New Visions Toronto provides residential support to children and adults with developmental and/or physical disabilities in…

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9
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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10
Ymca of Greater Toronto

The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…

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11
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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12
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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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 Lakehead University. 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

45 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. 45 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
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 budgetLANSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$215,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSIMCOE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$158,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE ST CHRISTOPHER HOUES — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Canada — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLakehead University — C$110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Greater TORONTO — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrillium Health Partners Foundation — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEvents For Life Centre INC. — C$95,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank — C$88,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY OF HOPE — C$73,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetBLOORVIEW MACMILLAN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (M.RES) — C$72,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOUNDLESS ADVENTURES ASSOCIATION — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Living Dufferin — C$68,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP AWAKENING INCORPOATED — C$67,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetEL HOGAR PROJECTS (CANADA) — C$67,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRES OF GREATER TORONTO — C$66,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — C$65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetL'Arche Daybreak — C$61,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN / LE PILIER LOGEMENTS POUR FEM — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer Society of TORONTO — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAPLASTIC ANEMIA & MYELODYSPLASIA ASSOCIATION — C$46,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCreedan Valley Resident Bus Fund — C$45,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC. — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERWOOD CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEAFORD CULTURE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSt. Matthew's Bracondale HOUSE — C$35,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Bruce Trail Conservancy — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND ERIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOPPER CLIFF UNITED CHURCH — C$30,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTORONTO CHILDREN S CARE INC. — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA- ONTARIO NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORP — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONG START CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPETERBOROUGH YOUTH SERVICES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMICI CAMPING CHARITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddus — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBirchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…Jackman FoundationHamilton Community Fo…The George Lunan Foun…The McLean FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The Catherine and Max…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Aston Family Foundati…Toronto FoundationThe Village at Blue M…The Norman & Margaret…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON11.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Aston Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Village at Blue Mountain Foundation · The Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable 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 54 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 860988179:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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