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Richmond Hill, ON · Private foundation

The Four Oaks Foundation

The charity provided funding to qualified donees during the period as set out on schedule t1236

C$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$625k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$238k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$1.8M
C$55,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$625,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$625,000
COVENANT HOUSE TORONTOC$325,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATIONC$260,000
ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$229,000
Y.W.C.A.C$225,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$150,000
HOPE AIRC$150,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$100,000
THE YONGE STREET MISSIONC$100,000
STEP STONES FOR YOUTHC$100,000
TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$85,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$75,000
FIRST BOOK CANADAC$75,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$13M · 40 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

C$13M
C$904k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+17%

Still filing today

98%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$349k 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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2.6M · revenue +19%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +10%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$966k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • WF
    WATER FIRST
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +15%
  • E
    ERDO
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -16%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +115%

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
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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2
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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3
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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4
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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5
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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7
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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8
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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9
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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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
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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12
Strides Toronto Foundation

The foundation provides financial support to support various programming initiatives at strides toronto support services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Farley Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 65 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
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 budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$2,645,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,375,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$965,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$810,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$530,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YONGE STREET MISSION — C$525,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetY.W.C.A. — C$515,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$430,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$425,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget360KIDS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$380,700 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSTEP STONES FOR YOUTH — C$325,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$290,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$270,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$250,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$229,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$220,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS FO TORONTO — C$200,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$155,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$147,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHOME HAVEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND FAMILY CAMP INC. — C$137,500 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetTHE MODERN MIRACLE FOUNDATION — C$130,500 over 3y, 59% of budgetWATER FIRST — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetERDO — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPINE RIVER FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$90,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$80,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTO — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFIRST BOOK CANADA — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR RIDERS WITH DISABILITIES — C$70,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOODSHARE — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOODGREEN RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWADU — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUFFERIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER TERRA HOUSE NORTH TORONTO EMERGENCY RE — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAN PRAXIS EAL — C$50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetST FELIX CENTRE — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGROWING NEIGHBOURHOODS FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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.

Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationThe Catherine and Max…The Harold E. Ballard…Jewish Foundation of …J.P. Bickell Foundati…Traquair Family Found…The McLean FoundationRobert Kerr FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Fiera Capital Foundat…
Toronto FoundationON14.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The Harold E. Ballard Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Traquair Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital

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 65 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 731439329:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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