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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The H. John McDonald Foundation

Specializing in grants generally made for equipment furniture etc; program funding special projects and capital projects particularly for those of educational or religious nature.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$206k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$423k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.1M
C$40,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$206,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING)C$200,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$150,000
FRED VICTOR CENTREC$95,000
CAMFED CANADAC$60,000
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYC$55,000
CASEY HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
RESTIGOUCHE RIVERC$50,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADAC$50,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIOC$50,000
THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMPSON HALLC$50,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION (CANADA)C$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA/MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES CANAC$50,000
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYC$40,000
HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION (THE)C$40,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.1M · 26 repeat orgsC$587k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

C$6.1M
C$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$220k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$906k · revenue +39%
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$600k · revenue +64%
  • FV
    Fred Victor Centre
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$395k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross - Toronto Region
    one grant, 2023 · C$75k · revenue -48%
  • TH
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    one grant, 2022 · C$60k · revenue +11%
  • AS
    Atlantic Salmon Federation
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k

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
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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2
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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3
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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4
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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5
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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6
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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7
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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8
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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9
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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10
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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11
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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12
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Red Cross Society / La Societe Canadienne De La Croix-Rouge and the most unlike its peers is George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology. 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

34 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. 34 of the 36 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$906,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$600,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFred Victor Centre — C$395,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMPSON HALL — C$350,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$304,519 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHospital for Sick Children Foundation (The) — C$260,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority — C$260,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (Canada) — C$220,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRESTIGOUCHE RIVER — C$200,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetOxfam Canada — C$185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — C$185,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetNational Ballet of Canada — C$180,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Society for the Protection of Animals Canada — C$175,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Ontario — C$170,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASEY HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCanadian Opera Company — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHALIBURTON HIGHLANDS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCAMFED CANADA — C$110,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMemorial University of Newfoundland — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING ART MAKING CHANGE — C$100,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetTHE GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Red Cross - Toronto Region — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Toronto — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra Association Inc. — C$49,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$45,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Opera House Corporation (COHC) — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONTARIO SPCA AND HUMANE SOCIETY — C$26,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$25,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE BROWN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$20,000 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 FoundationCanada GivesBurgundy Legacy Found…BenefAction FoundationThe Calgary FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
Toronto FoundationON8.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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 36 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 718228695:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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