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Newmarket, ON · Private foundation

The Farmer Family Foundation

The purposes of the foundation are: (a) to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada); and (b) to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above…

C$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$66k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$580k
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$100,000
PICKERING COLLEGEC$80,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$50,000
NEWMARKET FOOD PANTRYC$50,000
SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
NEWMARKET AFRICAN CARIBBEAN CANADIAN ASSOCIATIONC$26,200
INN FROM THE COLDC$15,000
INNOVATIVECOMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATIONC$15,000
ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
KIDNEY CANCER CANADAC$2,005
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESSC$1,030
WATER AMBASSADORS CANADAC$400
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.8M · 19 repeat orgsC$281k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
18

Total granted

C$2.8M
C$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$126k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +26%
  • PC
    PICKERING COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$907k · revenue +92%
  • SR
    SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$190k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHATS COMMUNITY & HOME ASSISTANCE TO SENIORSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +27%
  • MS
    MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$30k · revenue +154%
  • NA
    NEWMARKET AFRICAN CARIBBEAN CANADIAN ASSOSIATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k

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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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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2
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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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
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
Wellspring Niagara Cancer Support Foundation

The foundation provides support programs and services for people and their families living with cancer. the foundation provides opportunities for the development of self-help skills leading to an enhanced quality of life. the foundation…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
York University

York University provided the following programs/activities: - Undergraduate degree programs - Graduate degree programs - Non-credit courses - Sponsored research - Ancillary operations (for the benefit of students)

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8
Fund Homecare Canada

Fund Homecare Canada is a Canadian registered charitable not-for-profit organization dedicated to making in-home care accessible to palliative cancer patients—a critical and prevalent need that is unfortunately out of reach for many. We…

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9
Pancreatic Cancer Canada Cancer du Pancreas Canada

Research: provided continued funding for an early detection study called prosperpanc that aims to identify biomarkers for faster diagnosis of pancreatic cancer as well as a study assessing the current landscape of palliative care in…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Lemonville Pastoral Charge. 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

37 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. 37 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$1,010,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPICKERING COLLEGE — C$907,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$190,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEWMARKET FOOD PANTRY — C$150,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$130,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIVECOMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATION — C$60,845 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYORK SUPPORT SERVICES NETWORK — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATS COMMUNITY & HOME ASSISTANCE TO SENIORS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBETTER LIVING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$31,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEWMARKET AFRICAN CARIBBEAN CANADIAN ASSOCIATION — C$26,200 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING CENTRAL YORK — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIDAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED LEARNI — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. PHILIP BY THE SEA ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$15,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetST PAUL'S CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE OF YORK REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEMONVILLE UNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetYORK REGION ROSE OF SHARON SERVICES FOR YOUNG MOTHERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget360KIDS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDNEY CANCER CANADA — C$4,015 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$1,545 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$1,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER AMBASSADORS CANADA — C$1,430 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE TO GIVE RELIEF ORGANIZATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SEA FOUNDATION — C$511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATIMAVIK YOUTH SERVICES — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Dunin FoundationToronto FoundationPickering CollegeThe Egan Family Found…F. K. Morrow Foundati…The Don and Joan Walk…Jbs Foundation Inc.The Dr. Wolf Lebovic …The Joseph Lebovic Ch…Honda Canada Foundati…The George Lunan Foun…Ontario Credit Union …
The Dunin FoundationON11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dunin Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Pickering College · The Egan Family Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The Don and Joan Walker Family Charitable Trust · Jbs Foundation Inc. · The Dr. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · Honda Canada Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Ontario Credit Union 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 40 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 703996694:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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