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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Grenadier Foundation

The foundation supports a range of charities focused primarily on education healthcare and poverty.

C$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY TORONTO AND YORK REGIONC$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLSC$25,000
ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
GRAHAM BURTON FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$7,500
SWIM DRINK FISH CANADAC$4,550
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) CANADAC$2,500
TEACH FOR CANADAC$2,500
SECOND HARVESTC$2,500
RIGHT TO PLAYC$2,500
JACK.ORGC$2,500
INDSPIREC$2,500
FEED ONTARIOC$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$2,500
START2FINISHC$1,000
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$799k · 37 repeat orgsC$3k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
3

Total granted

C$799k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+101%

Still filing today

95%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • UO
    University of Toronto Schools
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$277k · revenue +46%
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$100k · revenue +25%
  • GB
    GRAHAM BURTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +352%

Funded once

  • CM
    Canadian Mental Health Association
    one grant, 2018 · C$1k
  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k
  • OC
    Oxfam Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$300 · revenue +101%

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
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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2
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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3
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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4
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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5
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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6
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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7
Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada with more than four million people living with diabetes in this country. It is a complex chronic condition that impacts a person’s health and overall life in profound ways.…

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8
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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9
Charity Intelligence Canada

Founded in 2007 Charity Intelligence researches and analyses Canadian charities so donors have information to make informed and intelligent giving decisions. According to StatsCanada research 30% of Canadians say they do not give more to…

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10
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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11
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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12
Imagine Canada

Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Its four Strategic Directions are to: energize the sector's voices; ensure the sector's relevance; influence the sector's environment;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Graham Burton Foundation. 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

38 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. 38 of the 41 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
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 budgetUniversity of Toronto Schools — C$276,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY TORONTO AND YORK REGION — C$230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRAHAM BURTON FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH CANADA — C$11,606 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY — C$11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$10,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ONTARIO — C$9,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$9,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS — C$7,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNATION — C$7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer Society Canada — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANDIAN RED CROSS — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA CANADA — C$5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$4,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUMENUS FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$3,400 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTART2FINISH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTUA — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUSO International — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARE Canada — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Children Canada — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSkylark Youth — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam Canada — C$300 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.

  • Who funds University of Toronto Schools ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY TORONTO AND YORK REGION ↗
  • Who funds ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAHAM BURTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SWIM DRINK FISH CANADA ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT TO PLAY ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds FEED ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds JACK.ORG ↗
  • Who funds Sick Kids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Alzheimer Society Canada ↗
  • Who funds UNICEF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANDIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds FINCA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TEACH FOR CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHARE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds LUMENUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RYERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Heart & Stroke Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WAR CHILD CANADA ↗
  • Who funds START2FINISH ↗
  • Who funds ACTUA ↗
  • Who funds CUSO International ↗
  • Who funds CARE Canada ↗
  • Who funds Save the Children Canada ↗
  • Who funds Skylark Youth ↗
  • Who funds Prostate Cancer Canada ↗

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 FoundationAqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…The Henry White Kinne…Ottawa Community Foun…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Strategic Charitable …The McLean FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…
Toronto FoundationON10.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 41 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 817144181:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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