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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to aplly all or part of the principal and income therefrom from to time to qualified donees.

C$24M
Granted FY2023
53
Grants FY2023
8
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$500
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k15 grants · C$1.9M
  • C$250k+35 grants · C$23M
C$333,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$780M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$2,550,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$1,521,360
PRINCE'S TRUST CANADAC$1,500,000
ORDER OF MALTA - CANADAC$1,499,985
THE GOVERNERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$1,100,000
MAKEWAY FOUNDATIONC$1,049,985
SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
SASKATOON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
THE NEURO - INSTITUT-HOPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE DE MONTREALC$1,000,000
OCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$720,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATIONC$575,000
MERTON COLLEGE OXFORDC$557,000
SWIM DRINK FISH CANADAC$520,000
LES FRATERITES MONASTIQUES DES SOEURS DE JERUSALEM-MONTREALC$500,000
OUTSIDE THE MARCHC$500,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$30M · 39 repeat orgsC$12M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
10

Total granted

C$30M
C$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

95%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
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

  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$3.0M · revenue +13%
  • OO
    ORDER OF MALTA - CANADA
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$2.0M · revenue +543%
  • UF
    UHN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$1.9M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WP
    WEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500k · revenue +156%
  • TT
    THE TORCH EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k · revenue +40%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITZENSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$400k · revenue +130%

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
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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2
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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3
Ocad University Foundation
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4
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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5
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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6
The Hnatyshyn Foundation - La Fondation Hnatyshyn

The foundation's objectives are to promote excellence in the arts in canada by awarding study grants prizes and residencies to emerging developing and mid-career artists and curators. the foundation provided program grants and awards…

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7
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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8
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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9
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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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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11
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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12
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Foundation for Aids Research/Fondation Canadienne De Recherche Sur Le Sida and the most unlike its peers is Dancing with Parkinson's. 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

62 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. 62 of the 70 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
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 budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$3,000,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetPRINCE'S TRUST CANADA — C$2,000,020 over 3y, 40% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$1,871,360 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$1,349,985 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$1,325,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$1,250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK PEOPLE — C$1,250,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$1,200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE GOVERNERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH CANADA — C$1,020,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSASKATOON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE NEURO - INSTITUT-HOPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE DE MONTREAL — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITY FIRST — C$950,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$916,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetWRITER'S TRUST OF CANADA — C$857,140 over 2y, 20% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$850,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$720,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY — C$716,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNIA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS — C$675,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$666,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$666,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDANCING WITH PARKINSON'S CANADA — C$666,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetNEXT CANADA — C$600,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$575,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$550,020 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetWEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$500,002 over 1y, 23% of budgetLES FRATERITES MONASTIQUES DES SOEURS DE JERUSALEM-MONTREAL — C$500,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetOUTSIDE THE MARCH — C$500,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetTHE TORCH EDUCATIONAL FUND — C$500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSALT AND LIGHT CATHOLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION — C$442,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAGA KHAN MUSEUM — C$405,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBRAVO NIAGARA! FESTIVAL OF THE SRTS — C$400,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITZENSHIP — C$400,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNIPISSING UNIVERSITY — C$400,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX / DARTMOUTH — C$387,750 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEQUAL VOICE FOUNDATION — C$360,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetIMAGINE 1 DAY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION — C$350,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$340,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$334,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADA — C$333,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE COMPANY — C$300,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$300,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSOULPEPPER — C$250,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMONTREAL MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS — C$250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$250,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetDR PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAFGHAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES — C$250,000 over 2y, 3.4% 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.

Weston Family Foundat…Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…The George Cedric Met…The William and Nona …The Henry White Kinne…The Slaight Family Fo…Judy and Wilmot Matth…The Murray Frum Found…Hal Jackman FoundationDonner Canadian Found…
Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille WestonON19.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · The Murray Frum Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Donner Canadian 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 70 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 782771471:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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