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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Graham Burton Foundation

Donations to other registered charities

C$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$162k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTED NORTH (ECOSYSTEM LEADER TAKINGITGLOBAL)C$25,000
CAPITALIZE FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$21,667
GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILLC$13,000
THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALLC$12,500
ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONC$10,000
YORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICESC$10,000
MJKO BOXINGC$10,000
JACK. ORGC$10,000
SECONDSTREET.ORGC$5,000
THE AWARENESS FOUNDATION CAF (CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADC$5,000
THE REGENT PARK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONC$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYC$5,000
ST. MICHAEL'S 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$671k · 21 repeat orgsC$338k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
23

Total granted

C$671k
C$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$39k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CF
    CAMH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$78k · revenue +135%
  • SF
    SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$51k · revenue +56%
  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH ON THE HILL
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$48k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • PR
    PINE RIVER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue -12%
  • MC
    MCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +37%
  • WM
    WINDMILL MICROLENDINGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +51%

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.

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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
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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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
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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5
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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6
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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7
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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8
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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9
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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10
Pixel Foundation

The Foundation works with a network of partners in supporting the improvement of mental health for Canadians everywhere.

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lumenus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Keepers of the Letterkenny Evangelical United Brethren Church & Cemetery. 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

48 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. 48 of the 52 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
25/48
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONNECTED NORTH — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPINE RIVER INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$78,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH ON THE HILL — C$47,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMJKO BOXING — C$46,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$45,005 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSKYLARK FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$25,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALL — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITALIZE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYORKTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELI'S PLACE — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE — C$17,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY FUND — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRES OF GREATER TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHSPEACK — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE TORONTO CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECONDSTREET.ORG — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REGENT PARK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION TRUST — C$2,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOUG PHILPOTT INNER-CITY CHILDREN'S TENNIS FUND — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN LEARNING CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROCKINGHAM CHURCH INC. — C$500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES 5K FOR KIDS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YELLOW BUS FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WAR AMPUTATIONS OF CANADA — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKVILLE MILTON HUMANE SOCIETY — C$100 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.

Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationJewish Foundation of …Clench House Foundati…BenefAction FoundationTD Securities Underwr…The Azrieli Foundatio…Conam Charitable Foun…Burgundy Legacy Found…The Catherine and Max…Fondation Écho /Echo …Aqueduct Foundation
Toronto FoundationON13× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Clench House Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Conam Charitable Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Aqueduct 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 52 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 798972279:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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