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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis

To receive and maintain a fund to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to 'qualified donees' as defined under the income tax act (canada).

C$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$89k
  • C$10k–50k44 grants · C$795k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$728k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$10M
C$15,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBBIE'S FUND FOUNDATIONC$10,000,000
TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTREC$150,000
THE BEAGLE ALLIANCEC$120,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTREC$100,000
FRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONALC$100,000
CANADA HELPSC$55,000
TORONTO CAT RESCUEC$53,000
CANADIAN ANIMAL TASK FORCEC$50,000
ALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY (AARCS)C$50,000
BREAKAWAY COMMUNITY SERVICESC$50,000
CHIOTS NORDIQUESC$35,000
OKANAGAN HUMANE SOCIETYC$35,000
ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTREC$30,000
PEOPLE ENSURING ANIMAL CARE EXISTSC$30,000
GUELPH HUMANE SOCIETYC$30,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$15M
Nunavut
C$2.6M
Quebec
C$2.0M
British Columbia
C$589k
Alberta
C$440k
Manitoba
C$120k
Northwest Territories
C$80k
Saskatchewan
C$38k
Nova Scotia
C$26k
New Brunswick
C$12k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$10M · 53 repeat orgsC$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
30

Total granted

C$10M
C$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11M 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

  • IH
    IQALUIT HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.6M · revenue +415%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL F/T PROTECTION AND C
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +297% · 95% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Windsor
    3× · 2018–2023 · C$1.7M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BS
    BC SPCA
    one grant, 2021 · C$105k
  • NS
    NWT SPCA
    one grant, 2020 · C$80k
  • AV
    ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (ROUSSEAU)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$68k · revenue +43%

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.

1
Wild At Heart Refuge Centre

Care of animals

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2
Calgary Animal Rescue Society

Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.

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3
Victoria County Animal Shelter Inc.

Care shelter and adoption of abandoned and surrendered family pets. Community programs: Trap Neuter Release(TNR); Prevent Another Litter (PAL); Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) Fostering

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4
Bandit Ranch Rehab

Animal rehabilitation

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5
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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6
Valley Animal Rescue

Foster and adoption programs seniors and families in need support with food and vetting. Public education animal surrender homes for unadoptable senior and palliative animals TNR-trap spay and neuter and release to control breeding and…

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7
Burr Foundation

Alleviate animal suffering animal and wildlife rescue

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8
Animal Rescue Foundation (Arf) of Alberta

Rescue homeless lost stray or abandoned dogs and cats on request from rural areas and communities with limited resources in order to prevent and alleviate animal suffering and reduce pet overpopulation; provide dogs and cats with food…

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9
Speak Up for Paws

Our efforts focus on education and advocacy for animal welfare.

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10
Paws Peoples Animal Welfare Society

Protecting animals from cruelty Rescuing animals from stray/homeless/abandonment situations/high-kill shelters. Promoting spay/neuter procedures to prevent the births of surplus kittens/;puppies who are so often euthanized (at the public…

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11
Homeless and Injured Animal Rescue of Canada Inc.

Animal rescue and adoption services

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12
Harvest Sky Animal Rescue Society

Welfare of domestic animals

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Animal Task Force Society 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.

03the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 120 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
56/108
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 budgetROBBIE'S FUND FOUNDATION — C$10,000,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetIQALUIT HUMANE SOCIETY — C$2,575,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL F/T PROTECTION AND C — C$1,869,450 over 7y, 95% of budgetUniversity of Windsor — C$1,700,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$1,430,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetRR REFUGE FOR HORSE — C$327,570 over 2y, 69% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$175,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY (AARCS) — C$165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$160,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNWT SPCA — C$124,985 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE BEAGLE ALLIANCE — C$120,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetETOBICOKE HUMANE SOCIETY — C$119,050 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetOTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$98,865 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN ANIMAL TASK FORCE — C$96,300 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTORONTO CAT RESCUE — C$82,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DURHAM REGION — C$70,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPAWS FOR HOPE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (ROUSSEAU) — C$68,453 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTeam Dog Rescue — C$65,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetAnimal Justice Canada — C$65,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetFATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) CANADA — C$60,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetVICTORIA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$57,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIOTS NORDIQUES — C$55,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetWINDSOR ESSEX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBREAKAWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISHING WELL SANCTUARY — C$50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$47,860 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL OUTREACH — C$40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPEOPLE ENSURING ANIMAL CARE EXISTS — C$40,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetTHROUGH RUFF TIMES — C$40,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF KITCHENER WATERLOO — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetA HOME FOR HOOVES FARM SANCTUARY — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOKANAGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY — C$33,750 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre — C$30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGUELPH HUMANE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWILDER INSTITUTE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEFUL HOOVES EQUINE RESCUE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND — C$28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISED LAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY — C$28,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGuelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition — C$27,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFELINE RESCUE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$26,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetANNEX CAT RESCUE — C$26,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER EDMONTON ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$25,261 over 2y, 5.7% 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.

Petsmart Charities of…Canfel FoundationOntario Society for t…Animal Welfare Founda…Four Feet Companion F…National Wildlife Reh…Gordon and Patricia G…Nickle Family Foundat…Georgina Sawyer Memor…Niagara Action for An…Telus Employees Chari…Canada Gives
Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du CanadaON33.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canada · Canfel Foundation · Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals / Société de Protection Des Animaux de L'Ontario · Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada · Four Feet Companion Foundation · National Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation · Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Georgina Sawyer Memorial Foundation · Niagara Action for Animals · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Canada Gives

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 120 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 805834710:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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