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Scarborough, ON · Private foundation

The Dawson Family Sharing Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive and maintain a fund and apply the principal and income thereon to charitable organizations that are registered charities in the provision of services to the poor and disadvantaged health care provision and research and those working towards the advancement of Christian religion and education.

C$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$287k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$7,000
FEED SCARBOROUGH - SCARBOROUGH FOOD SECURITYC$6,000
KIDS HELP PHONEC$5,000
WOODGREEN FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ASSAULTED WOMEN'S HELPLINEC$5,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$5,000
SALVATION ARMYC$5,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$5,000
TNO - THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZATIONC$4,000
NATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTREC$3,000
ALS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$3,000
NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTOC$3,000
SAVE A FAMILY PLANC$3,000
NELLIE'S PLACEC$3,000
GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIESC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$559k · 36 repeat orgsC$130k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
48

Total granted

C$559k
C$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+23%

Still filing today

97%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$38k · revenue ×80
  • WF
    WOODGREEN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$36k · revenue +661%
  • J
    JDRF
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JESUIT SEMINARY ASSOCIATION (JESUIT DEVELOPMENT OFFICE)
    one grant, 2017 · C$11k · revenue -5%
  • DB
    Daily Bread Food Bank
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k
  • KH
    Kids Help Phone
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k

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
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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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
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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5
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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6
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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7
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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8
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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9
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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10
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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11
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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12
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is The Experiential Diabetes Education Group. 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

60 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. 60 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
47/60
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 budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$38,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$35,700 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJDRF — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSAULTED WOMEN'S HELPLINE — C$27,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$24,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSEY CENTRE FOR WOMEN — C$23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A FAMILY PLAN — C$22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries — C$22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$21,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scott Mission — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNELLIE'S PLACE (SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN) — C$19,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTNO - THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZATION — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED SCARBOROUGH - SCARBOROUGH FOOD SECURITY — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JESUIT SEMINARY ASSOCIATION (JESUIT DEVELOPMENT OFFICE) — C$10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY TORONTO — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCACHA (CANADA-AFRICAN COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE) — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDIXON HALL — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH — C$5,700 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOURETTE CANADA — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY HOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO REFUGEE COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT HOMES AND SERVICES — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIP (HONOURING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTRE 55 — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUBS OF CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF EAST YORK CHARITABLE TRUST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODGREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JDRF ↗
  • Who funds ASSAULTED WOMEN'S HELPLINE ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds KIDS HELP PHONE ↗
  • Who funds EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds THE MASSEY CENTRE FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A FAMILY PLAN ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds The Scott Mission ↗
  • Who funds NELLIE'S PLACE (SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN) ↗
  • Who funds TNO - THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds FEED SCARBOROUGH - SCARBOROUGH FOOD SECURITY ↗
  • Who funds THE JESUIT SEMINARY ASSOCIATION (JESUIT DEVELOPMENT OFFICE) ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CACHA (CANADA-AFRICAN COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE) ↗
  • Who funds DIXON HALL ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH ↗
  • Who funds RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER ↗

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 FoundationChum Charitable Found…Jewish Foundation of …Shoppers Foundation f…Ontario Power Generat…Kids Up Front Foundat…Tippet FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Catherine and Max…Ottawa Community Foun…Aqueduct Foundation
Toronto FoundationON15× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Chum Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Tippet Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Aqueduct 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 89 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 820127934:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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