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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The George Lunan Foundation

For charitable purposes in ontario and for educational and religious purposes in canada.

C$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k47 grants · C$241k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOM 217 FOUNDATIONC$50,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$7,000
NORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANKC$7,000
HOPE FOR TODAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP GEORGINA INC.C$7,000
GILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTOC$6,000
OPERATION SCUGOGC$6,000
TIMMINS FOOD BANK A DIVISION OF ST. MARTIN DE PORRESC$5,000
PROJECT SUNSHINE CANADAC$5,000
THE EGANVILLE AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOOD BANKC$5,000
COCHRANE FOOD BANK INC./LA BANQUE ALIMENTAIREC$5,000
COBALT COLEMAN LATCHFORD AND AREA FOOD BANKC$5,000
CAPUCHIN OUTREACH TO THE POOR PARKDALEC$5,000
AURORA FOOD PANTRYC$5,000
TRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES INC.C$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK AND LITERACY FOUNDATIONC$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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 103 repeat orgsC$506k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
145

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$49k 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

  • R2
    ROOM 217 FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$115k · revenue +123%
  • OR
    OAK RIDGES HOSPICE OF DURHAM LTD.
    2× · 2018–2021 · C$80k · revenue +718%
  • HF
    HOPE FOR TODAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP GEORGINA INC.
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$39k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WAUPOOS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$6k · revenue -21%
  • NR
    Nipissing Regional Community Residential Hospice
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -9%
  • TS
    The Snowsuite Fund/Le Fonds Habineigegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +121%

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
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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2
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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3
Community Living Toronto

Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…

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4
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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5
Toronto Youth Development

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

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6
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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7
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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8
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre

Boost is a creative community response to child abuse investigations. A partnership among local community and government agencies it brings together all professionals involved in child abuse cases under one roof for a coordinated…

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9
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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10
Working for Change

Working for Change provides education and employment opportunities for people disadvantages by mental illness addiction poverty homelessness gender violence and immigration experiences through social enterprises and leadership training…

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11
Neighbourhood Works Inc.

We serve children youth and their families in care with the minister of social development one co-ed youth homes ages 12 to 18 years two sibling homes ages birth to 25 years adult outreach worker for those experiencing homelessness…

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12
The York Centre for Children, Youth & Families

The York Centre provides a range of treatment and intervention mental health related services for children, youth, and families who live in York Region. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team based upon a comprehensive approach…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Toronto Family Community Centre and the most unlike its peers is Fonds Foyer Richelieu Welland. 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

244 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. 244 of the 258 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)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
232/244
Grantees still filing
175/244
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 budgetROOM 217 FOUNDATION — C$115,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetOAK RIDGES HOSPICE OF DURHAM LTD. — C$80,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHOPE FOR TODAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP GEORGINA INC. — C$39,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$38,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SCUGOG — C$37,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPUCHIN OUTREACH TO THE POOR PARKDALE — C$23,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetJUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGIANT STEPS TORONTO INC. — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPEEL CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Women's Centre Of Halton — C$17,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCreating Together — C$16,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES INC. — C$15,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUNSHINE CENTRES FOR SENIORS — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE MINISTRIES OF OTTAWA-CARLTON — C$14,621 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF YORK REGION — C$14,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAUTISM DOG SERVICES INC. — C$13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CARE FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHINE THROUGH THE RAIN FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTRE KINGSTON — C$12,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHOSPICE TORONTO — C$12,344 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST. THOMAS-ELGIN SECOND STAGE TRANSITIONAL RESIDENCE — C$12,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSTART2FINISH CANADA — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetImmigrant Women Services Ottawa — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNANNY ANGEL NETWORK INC. — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA THERAPY DOGS — C$11,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetToronto Refugee Community Non-Profit Homes and Services — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOPESPRING CANCER — C$10,800 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH ASSISTING YOUTH — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBALANCE FOR BLIND ADULTS — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOME HORIZON GEORGIAN TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES — C$10,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetONTARIO PARENT ADVOCAGTING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER — C$10,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAURORA FOOD PANTRY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNIAGARA FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EGANVILLE AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOCHRANE FOOD BANK INC./LA BANQUE ALIMENTAIRE DECOCHRANE INC — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE PROGRAM — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Baby Depot — C$10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCOBALT COLEMAN LATCHFORD AND AREA FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetSEAFORTH & DISTRICT FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 4.6% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…Marion Ethel Kamm and…Alice and Murray Mait…Arthur & Audrey Cutte…The Georgina Foundati…Johansen-Larsen Found…F. K. Morrow Foundati…The McLean FoundationOntario Realtors Care…Robert Kerr FoundationThe Harold E. Ballard…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON52.7× affinity109 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Charitable Trust · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation · The Georgina Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · The Harold E. Ballard 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 258 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 advancing education.

Source object 119234805:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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