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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Harold E. Ballard Foundation

THE HAROLD E.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$180k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$750k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITALC$750,000
CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUMC$100,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$45,000
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREALC$25,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITALC$20,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$20,000
EASTER SEALS ONTARIOC$20,000
COMMUNITY LIVING TORONTOC$20,000
CANADAHELPSC$10,000
YOUTHLINKC$10,000
FRED VICTOR CENTREC$10,000
ARMAGH BUILDING LIVES FREE OF VIOLENCEC$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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.9M · 70 repeat orgsC$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
100

Total granted

C$5.9M
C$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+43%

Still filing today

99%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$785k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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× · 2017–2019 · C$300k · revenue +99%
  • TD
    THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$288k · revenue +65%
  • NY
    NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$250k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WU
    WESLEY UPTON MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue +56%
  • HF
    HORIZONS FOR YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +30%
  • DR
    DURHAM REGION HOSPICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +376%

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
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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2
Cota Health

Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…

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3
Participation House Toronto

The organization provides upport care services and accessible housing to adults with physical and developmental disabilities so that they can live independantly. services include assistance with dressing bathing houskeeping and meal…

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4
Mental Health Program Services of Metropolitan Toronto

Habitat services (hereinafter 'habitat) aims to improve the quality of life for persons with mental health issues living in habitat funded boarding homes and rooming houses in toronto. habitat enters into contractual agreements with…

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5
Vha Home Healthcare

VHA is a not for profit charitable organization that offers 24/7 health care and support services to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Our goal is to provide clients with spectacular service when where and how they want it to…

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6
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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7
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Specialized mental health hospital providing tertiary care mental health programs for inpatients and outpatients. - operates satellite locations in the community and through other regional programs and partnerships. in all programs ontario…

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8
House of Compassion of Toronto

House of compassion is a not-for-profit charitable organization that offers a permanent affordable and supportive home to 21 men and women with severe and persistent mental illness. our goal is simple. we walk the journey with each…

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9
Gateway Residential and Community Support Services of Niagara Inc.

Housing and case management support for individuals dealing with mental health and homelessness Housing supports provided via group home market units subsidized housing and several agency owned affordable housing projects

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10
Indwell Community Homes

Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…

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11
Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services

Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services is a transfer payment agency funded under the Services and Supports to promote the social inclusion of persons with developmental disabilities act and the Child and Family Services Act of the…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dixon Hall and the most unlike its peers is Université de Montréal. 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

172 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. 172 of the 174 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
170/172
Grantees still filing
136/172
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 budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL — C$750,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRIDGEPOINT HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE — C$287,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY — C$241,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING TORONTO — C$240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OF CANADA — C$215,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$215,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$209,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION BRIDGEPOINT ROOFTOP GARDEN — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$175,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCONCERTS IN CARE ONTARIO — C$140,780 over 6y, 12% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEGALE CANADA HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA SOCIÉTÉ( ) — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWEST PARK FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWESLEY UPTON MINISTRIES — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHLAKE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE HULL CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$97,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN THEREAPEUTIC RIDING AND FAMILY CAMP INC. — C$83,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$73,850 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLIBERTY FOR YOUTH — C$70,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetNEW VISITORS TORONTO — C$68,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON — C$67,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING BELLEVILLE AND AREA — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE QUINTE — C$60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PORTAGE PROGRAM — C$58,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTETRA SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA — C$56,200 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFEHAVEN PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSMILEZONE FOUNDATION — C$54,620 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHORIZONS FOR YOUTH — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDURHAM REGION HOSPICE — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GIES FAMILY CENTRE HOSPICE WATERLOO REGION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CEDARBROOK SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE HURONIA — C$50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHOSPICE KINGSTON — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPINE RIVER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY-ONTARIO CENTRAL EAST — C$50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOSPICE VAUGHAN — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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…Ontario Realtors Care…Harry E Foster Charit…The Catherine and Max…The George Lunan Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Jackman FoundationThe Georgina Foundati…Kids Up Front Foundat…Alice and Murray Mait…The Ben and Hilda Kat…Toronto Foundation
J.P. Bickell FoundationON32.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Georgina Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation · Toronto 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 174 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 890454192:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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