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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Garron Foundation

Donations to qualified donees

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
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

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$1.0M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.1M
C$100,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$1,125,000
TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
WOODGREEN FOUNDATIONC$100,000
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
RISE HELPSC$100,000
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CANADA CANCER SOCIETYC$100,000
MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$70,166
ALS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$50,000
WELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$50,000
MARCH OF DIMESC$35,000
MARKHAN STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
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$5.6M · 18 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$553k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+25%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +149%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$700k · revenue +59%
  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$550k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SH
    ST.MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k · revenue +25%
  • TP
    True Patriot Love Toronto- Invictus 2017
    one grant, 2017 · C$103k · revenue +9%
  • KU
    KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue -3%

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
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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2
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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3
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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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
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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6
London Health Sciences Foundation

Fundraising programs provide funding for the enhancement of patient care research education and capital projects for London Health Sciences Centre.

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7
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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8
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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9
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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10
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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11
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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12
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ottawa Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dalhousie University. 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

24 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. 24 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
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 budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$1,125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$700,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRISE HELPS — C$500,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCANADA CANCER SOCIETY — C$450,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSunnybrook Foundation — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST.MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL — C$244,353 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$200,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Toronto- Invictus 2017 — C$102,625 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING — C$75,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$35,000 over 4y, 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.

Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON6.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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 25 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 893497610:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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