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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The John and Deborah Harris Family Foundation

The foundation receives and maintains donations and disburses a portion thereof and/or the income therefrom to: a) any charitable organization or organizations or charitable foundation or foundations in canada that are 'registered charities' as defined by the income tax act (canada); and b) 'qualified donees' as defiend by the income…

C$760k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$265
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$21k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$339k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$400k
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$178,604
SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOLC$60,000
PERIMETER INSTITUTEC$50,000
CANADIAN INSTITUE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$50,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$11,000
GRAPES FOR HUMANITYC$10,000
WWF CANADAC$265
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.5M · 9 repeat orgsC$599k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

C$7.5M
C$589k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$4.2M · revenue +43%
  • RT
    RIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +31%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$700k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RT
    Right To Play International
    one grant, 2018 · C$500k
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR ADDICTION ANF MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +41%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA/PASSEPORT POUR MA REUSSITE CANAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +37%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Autism Science Foundation Canada

Asf canada's mission is to fund breakthrough research to improve the lives of people with autism. asf canada provides funds to support university-based research in canada. asf canada board members have presented at national conferences and…

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7
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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8
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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9
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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10
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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11
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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12
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Scientists in School. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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 budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$4,186,104 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL — C$1,507,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$700,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL — C$488,982 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPERIMETER INSTITUTE — C$250,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer Society Toronto — C$103,502 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION ANF MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRIME QUADRANT FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA/PASSEPORT POUR MA REUSSITE CANA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAPES FOR HUMANITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetInstitute of Canada Citizenship/ Institut pour la citoyen... — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRegent Park School of Music Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalympic Foundation of Canada — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScik Kids Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWWF CANADA — C$265 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.

Canada GivesJewish Community Foun…Toronto FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationThe Calgary FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…My Tribute Gift Found…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Canada GivesON8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canada Gives · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Toronto Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund 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 21 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 848978417:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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