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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Harbinger Foundation

The foundation seeks to become a catalyst for sustainable positive change through partnerships with creative and innovative charitable organizations.

C$476k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$475k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$475k
C$474,785
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MAKEWAY FOUNDATIONC$474,785
LA TABLEE DES CHEFSC$1,500
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 20 repeat orgsC$128k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
52

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TM
    THE MAKEWAY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue ×11
  • TC
    TIDES CANADA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$272k · revenue +127%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$75k · revenue +467%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CIRCLE-PHILANTHROPY & ABORIGINAL PEOPLEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +537%
  • HD
    HOT DOCS
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -17%
  • CC
    COMPASS CHURCH SHEPPHARD'S CUPBOARD FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +41%

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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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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2
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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3
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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4
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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5
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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6
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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7
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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8
C4C Canada

C4C is an independent non-partisan charitable organization that works to create greater inclusion and prosperity in Canada through media and arts. We use the power of storytelling to create empathy understanding and relationships required…

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9
Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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10
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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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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12
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charities Aid Foundation Canada 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.

02the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 72 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
56/70
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 MAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$1,765,355 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$272,011 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCNIS — C$70,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetASHOKA CANADA — C$49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIC — C$43,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJAYU FESTIVAL INC — C$23,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetVOLCANO THEATRE — C$18,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMANJENGO CANADA — C$16,684 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLA TABLEE DES CHEFS — C$16,571 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CIRCLE-PHILANTHROPY & ABORIGINAL PEOPLE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS CHURCH SHEPPHARD'S CUPBOARD FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKOKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSALAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTORS FUND OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO RAPE CRISIS CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLICENSED TO LEARN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER GRAND LEARNING FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ROOTS EXCHANGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCARBOROUGH ARTS — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDANS LEGACY — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetART AT HEART INC — C$3,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHAMILTON PHILHARONIC ORCHESTRA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN COMMUNITY HOMES — C$2,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ORANGEVILLE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S HOSTELS INCORPORATED (NELLIE'S SHELTER) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAISING THE ROOF CHEZ TOIT — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTARRAGON THEATRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CROSSROADS — C$1,000 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.

Makeway FoundationThe McLean FoundationToronto FoundationOntario Arts Foundati…Canada GivesThe J W McConnell Fam…The George Cedric Met…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…Nick & Lynn Ross Char…The K. M. Hunter Char…Hamilton Community Fo…
Makeway FoundationBC20× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Canada Gives · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · Hamilton Community 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 72 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 898975958:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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