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Thornhill, ON · Private foundation

The Desbro Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the capital and income therefrom from time to time for the Objects of the Foundation which are defined under paragraph 1(e) as charitable organizations or other charities that are also registered charities under the Income Tax Act

C$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Voice of the Vedas Cultural Sabha Inc.C$1,000
Panwar Music and Dance ProductionsC$1,000
Daily Bread Food BankC$1,000
North York General Hospital FoundationC$500
Trillium Health Partners FoundationC$500
Covenant HouseC$500
Scott MissionC$500
CNIBC$300
Diabetes CanadaC$300
Canada Wildlife FederationC$200
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 34% of grant dollars (C$15k). The 66% that went abroad (C$30k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 66% of all-years giving (C$30k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
KenyaC$22k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$40k · 10 repeat orgsC$5k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

C$40k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+62%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TD
    THE DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$3k · revenue +40%
  • CH
    Covenant House
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +10%
  • TS
    THE SCOTT MISSION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$2k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOPE STORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$500
  • OE
    OPERATION EYESIGHT CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$500 · revenue +80%

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.

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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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2
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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3
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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4
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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5
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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6
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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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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9
Fighting Blindness Canada

Fighting Blindness Canada leads the fight against blindness by advancing research in to vision loss and blindness education and public awareness. To advance vision research we fund qualified donees researchers and clinicians to investigate…

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10
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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11
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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12
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daily Bread Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Panwar Music and Dance Productions Inc.. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
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 budgetTHE DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPanwar Music and Dance Productions — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRILLIUM HEALTH PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of the Vedas Cultural Sabha Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE STORY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNIB — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDiabetes Canada — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTVO — C$500 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 17 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 703812313:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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