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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Donald K. Jackson Family Foundation

To receive and maintain funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the ita

C$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.7M
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$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$175k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.7M
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UHN FoundationC$1,740,000
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre FoundationC$100,000
University of Western OntarioC$75,000
Project Give Back to YouthC$30,000
SickKids FoundationC$15,000
Best Buddies CanadaC$10,000
Fertility Friends FoundationC$5,000
Sinai Health FoundationC$3,000
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$2,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.5M · 10 repeat orgsC$61k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

C$4.5M
C$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+20%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UF
    UHN Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +4%
  • RI
    RICHARD IVEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$500k · revenue +47%
  • SH
    SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$300k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CLAIR COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$19k · revenue +29%
  • TS
    The Sterling Hall Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +33%
  • AM
    ANN & MAX TANENBAUM COMMUNITY HEBREW ACADEMY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -16%

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.

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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
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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3
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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4
The Michener Institute of Education At Uhn

Provide scholarships and bursaries to students - offer specialized training in various health professions including: chiropody cardiovascular perfusion diagnostic cytology genetics technology medical laboratory sciences ultrasound…

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5
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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6
Mcmaster University

McMaster charitable donations fund Student Scholarships and Bursaries Teaching and Community Initiatives

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7
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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8
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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9
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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10
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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11
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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12
The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

The humber college institute of technology and advanced learning is a publicly assisted polytechnic educational institution that offers bachelor degrees diplomas and postgraduate certificates in more than 220 full-time programs and over…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uhn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Sterling Hall School. 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

20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
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 budgetUHN Foundation — C$2,220,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRICHARD IVEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$420,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHospital for Sick Children Foundation — C$240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT GIVE BACK FOR YOUTH — C$180,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYonge Street Mission — C$130,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBEST BUDDIES — C$43,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetST CLAIR COLLEGE — C$18,807 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sterling Hall School — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANN & MAX TANENBAUM COMMUNITY HEBREW ACADEMY OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFertility Friends Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSinai Health Foundation — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$750 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Foundation of …Conam Charitable Foun…Fiera Capital Foundat…Canada GivesToronto FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Canada Gives · Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 20 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 810503003:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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