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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Dragonfly Fund

As a private foundation the charity only makes gifts to other qualified donnees at this time

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k28 grants · C$778k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$641k
C$30,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCEC$100,000
FIRST NATIONS TECH COUNCILC$100,000
ECOJUSTICEC$84,000
FOODSHARE TORONTOC$77,415
THE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTIONC$75,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$55,000
THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THEC$50,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION & ACTION (I-SEA)C$50,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$50,000
FARMERS FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONSC$45,000
BREAST CANCER ACTION QUEBECC$40,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$35,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$35,000
ECOJUSTICEC$35,000
THE SOCIETY OF HIGH PRAIRIE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTALC$33,600
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 17 repeat orgsC$2.8M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

94%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$630k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MC
    MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$496k · revenue +5%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION & EDUCATION (I-SE
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$225k · revenue +13%
  • LS
    LLISAQSIVIK SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$175k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CF
    CALGARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +22%
  • WS
    WOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$525k · revenue -87%
  • MN
    MI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +60%

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
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
The Resilience Institute

The organization develops educational programs & conducts active participatory research on climate change & sustainability. Priority program areas include developing the capacity of Indigenous Communities to adapt to climate impacts &…

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4
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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5
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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6
Ecotrust Canada

Supported rural remote and indigenous communities in creating community-led economic development solutions that are thriving sustainable and equitable. our work involved providing technical expertise project management business planning…

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7
Global Indigenous Development Trust

Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…

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8
Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology
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9
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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10
Makeway Foundation

MakeWay Foundation's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The Foundation supports convenes or funds hundreds of qualified donees every year from neighbourhood social programs to…

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11
Ine Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association

Energy economics in bc research project prosperous transition project indigenous economics systems project

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12
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighbourhood Group Community Services and the most unlike its peers is The First Nations Technical Institute. 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

39 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. 39 of the 50 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
19/39
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 budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADA — C$525,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$496,030 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION & EDUCATION (I-SE — C$225,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLLISAQSIVIK SOCIETY — C$175,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$165,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$162,215 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE — C$140,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFARMERS FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS — C$127,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE — C$122,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$119,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS TECH COUNCIL — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHUNDER WOMAN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEW FARM CENTRE FOR CLIMATE ACTION — C$75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION QUEBEC — C$71,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHILDREN'S PEACE THEATRE — C$54,150 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSISTERING — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARIBBEAN AFRICAN CANADIAN SOCIAL SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BC — C$49,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA INSTITUTE — C$48,375 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPARKDALE QUEEN WEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHROOTS — C$46,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF HIGH PRAIRIE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL — C$33,600 over 1y, 47% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$31,758 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA RIVER KEEPERS — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLI-THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAUMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLACK HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR NORTHERN CONSERVATION — C$22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCMICHEAL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISH DRIP IN CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$255 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.

Makeway FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…The Catherine Donnell…Fondation Écho /Echo …The McLean FoundationToronto FoundationLaidlaw FoundationRaymond James Canada …Inspirit FoundationDonner Canadian Found…Canadian Women's Foun…The Trottier Family F…
Makeway FoundationBC18.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Laidlaw Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Inspirit Foundation · Donner Canadian Foundation · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier

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 50 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 environment.

Source object 768362147:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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