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Mississauga, ON · Public foundation

The Fourth Box Charitable Foundation

Donations to various charities

C$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 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–50k2 grants · C$70k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVESC$40,000
THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICEC$30,000
SWIM DRINK FISH / ARTISTS FOR WATERC$5,000
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$399k · 6 repeat orgsC$136k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

C$399k
C$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • TD
    THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$145k · revenue +45%
  • TY
    TRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$120k · revenue +295%
  • A
    ARMAGH
    2× · 2019–2022 · C$70k · revenue +232%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE RESCUE TEAM SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +85%
  • TC
    The Centre for Mindfulness Studiesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +39%
  • CP
    CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +56%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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6
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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7
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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8
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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9
Canadian Men's Health Foundation

Established in 2014 the canadian men's health foundation (cmhf) is one of canada's leading men's health charities. using a number of online tools information portals and partnerships with like-minded organizations cmhf works to educate men…

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10
Team Finn Foundation

The team finn foundation is focused on advancing cancer research with an emphasis on childhood cancer research. we also concentrate on spearheading or helping to advance opportunities to improve the lives of children and families in…

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11
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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12
Jane and Tom Sabourin Family Foundation

The princess margaret cancer foundation trails youth initiatives inc.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Shore Rescue Team Society. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
18/18
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 budgetTHE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE — C$145,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVE — C$120,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetARMAGH — C$70,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE RESCUE TEAM SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Centre for Mindfulness Studies — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$13,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO. 9 — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MCKEIL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILITARY CASUALTY SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTerry Fox Foundation — C$700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR — C$521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMovember — C$102 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.

Conam Charitable Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Toronto FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Conam Charitable FoundationON7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Conam Charitable Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 19 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 844316109:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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