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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation

The foundation supports charitable activities in three areas: the performing arts the environment and social services.

C$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
138
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$526k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k30 grants · C$105k
  • C$10k–50k60 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$50k–250k45 grants · C$4.3M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.1M
C$35,968
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$207M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONTARIO EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCHC$526,066
OUR LAND FOR THE FUTURE TRUSTC$300,000
CENTRE FOR NORTHERN CONSERVATIONC$250,000
NEIGHBOURHOOD LAND TRUST THEC$228,062
NATIONAL ARTS CENTREC$177,500
YORK FACTORY FIRST NATIONC$150,000
FORT FOLLY (AMLAMGOG) FIRST NATIONC$150,000
SAYISI DENE FIRST NATIONC$150,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$134,000
CENTRE FOR LAND CONSERVATIONC$130,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADAC$125,000
RAISING THE ROOFC$120,000
LABOUR COMMUNITY SERVICESC$120,000
WELLESLEY INSTITUTEC$115,500
COMMUNITY FORESTS INTERNATIONALC$112,750
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$41M
British Columbia
C$3.4M
Quebec
C$1.2M
Manitoba
C$1.1M
New Brunswick
C$779k
Alberta
C$764k
Northwest Territories
C$300k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$56k
Yukon
C$50k

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$45M · 219 repeat orgsC$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

219 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

219
100

Total granted

C$45M
C$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

95%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.2M 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

  • OE
    Ontario Employment Education and Research
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.8M · revenue +159% · 41% of their budget
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +295%
  • CI
    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research The
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIVE CANADIAN CENTRE OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2020 · C$225k · revenue +15%
  • RR
    Royal Roads University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$150k · revenue +55%
  • FB
    FURNITURE BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$85k · revenue +52%

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
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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2
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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3
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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4
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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5
Actors Repertory Company

Arc is an ensemble-based company that produces contemporary international theatre in a multinational city. we take a rigorous bold socially active and highly collaborative approach to producing thought-provoking international works in…

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6
Canadian Rep Theatre

Theatre production and play development programs focusing solely on the canadian theatrical repertoire developing new plays encouraging new playwrights and creating innovative new productions of established works. developing educational…

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7
Toronto Media Arts Cluster

TMAC is a media arts centre located in the heart of Toronto's Art+Design district. We provide artists and the public with access to state of the art production studios galleries a cinema theatre opportunities for hands-on learning and…

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8
Birdland Theatre Inc.

Toronto-based performing arts company committed to ensemble collaborations through its work with guest artists, sponsors and the community.

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9
Atelier De Dramaturgie De MontrÉAl Inc./ Playwrights' Workshop (Montreal) Inc.

Playwrights’ workshop (montreal) inc. is a nationally-madated dramaturgically-led development centre focused on the collaborative process of creating new work for performance. the organization has designed and implemented programs that…

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10
Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre

Art starts inspires and cultivate social change by bringing professional artist and toronto residents together to create community building art projects in all artistic diciplines. art starts provides responsive and relevant creative…

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11
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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12
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

We are one of the only two theatre companies in Canada that exclusively creates develops and produces new Asian Canadian work. We bring artistic excellence from the pan-Asian diaspora uplifting narratives previously unseen. We also provide…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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

329 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. 329 of the 348 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)
97
Early backer (in before they grew)
325/329
Grantees still filing
245/329
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetOntario Employment Education and Research — C$3,785,288 over 8y, 41% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA — C$1,126,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Institute for Advanced Research The — C$1,115,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$1,085,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$1,004,080 over 8y, 13% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$825,786 over 7y, 11% of budgetEcotrust Canada — C$825,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$803,833 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNEIGHBOURHOOD LAND TRUST THE — C$764,813 over 5y, 23% of budgetJane/Finch Community and Family Centre — C$726,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetWILDLANDS LEAGUE — C$648,589 over 5y, 22% of budgetNorth York Harvest Food Bank — C$596,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$577,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION THE — C$576,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNature United — C$530,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$523,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL — C$520,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE FOR NORTHERN CONSERVATION — C$500,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetWRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA — C$500,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetRAISING THE ROOF — C$490,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetLearning Enrichment Foundation, The — C$488,669 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$484,604 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetPembina Institute for Appropriate Development — C$456,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetParkdale Activity-Recreation Centre — C$432,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLABOUR COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$415,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetEQUITERRE — C$415,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$411,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFringe of Toronto Theatre, The — C$410,970 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$390,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetOUTSIDE THE MARCH THEATRE COMPANY — C$389,183 over 6y, 16% of budgetALUNA THEATRE — C$378,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetCultureLink Settlement and Community Services — C$360,660 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetMcGill University — C$359,983 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$351,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$350,540 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetToronto Neighbourhood Centres — C$344,500 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$341,558 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNatural Step Canada The — C$335,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCommunity Forests International — C$328,900 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHEATRE CENTRE THE — C$311,300 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetLABOUR COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$310,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetWHY NOT THEATRE — C$300,580 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$288,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTAPESTRY OPERA — C$282,750 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetClean Air Partnership — C$281,920 over 2y, 21% of budgetHOSPITALITY WORKERS RESOURCE CENTRE — C$275,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTORONTO HOSTELS TRAINING CENTRE — C$273,215 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$270,832 over 6y, 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.

  • Who funds Ontario Employment Education and Research ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Institute for Advanced Research The ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Ecotrust Canada ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOURHOOD LAND TRUST THE ↗
  • Who funds Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre ↗
  • Who funds WILDLANDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds North York Harvest Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds SMALL CHANGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION THE ↗
  • Who funds Nature United ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR NORTHERN CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds WRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds RAISING THE ROOF ↗
  • Who funds Learning Enrichment Foundation, The ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHARE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development ↗
  • Who funds Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre ↗
  • Who funds LABOUR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EQUITERRE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
  • Who funds Fringe of Toronto Theatre, The ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE THE MARCH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ALUNA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CultureLink Settlement and Community Services ↗
  • Who funds McGill University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Neighbourhood Centres ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Natural Step Canada The ↗

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.

Ontario Arts Foundati…The K. M. Hunter Char…The Slaight Family Fo…Kingfisher FoundationLindy Green Family Fo…The McLean FoundationHal Jackman FoundationThe Catherine Donnell…Toronto FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…The Atkinson Charitab…The Catherine and Max…
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'OntarioON35.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · The Slaight Family Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · Lindy Green Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · The Atkinson Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen 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 348 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 118937010:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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