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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The John and Pat McCutcheon Charitable Foundation

Our ongoing program is to be involved in community economic development and environmental activities by making grants to other organizations.

C$7.4M
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
3
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • C$10k–50k19 grants · C$523k
  • C$50k–250k18 grants · C$1.9M
  • C$250k+9 grants · C$5.0M
C$60,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINNIPEG FOUNDATIONC$1,050,000
IISD-EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA CAPITALC$1,000,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$900,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA - NSC$500,000
IISD-EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA CAPITALC$350,000
WINNIPEG FOUNDATIONC$350,000
BIRD STUDIES CANADAC$300,000
BLACK CREEK FRAM/FOODSHAREC$276,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$250,000
ONTARIO WATER CENTRE - CLEARWATER FARMSC$205,000
CPAWS NSC$200,000
THE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$150,000
THE STOPC$150,000
NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOURC$150,000
THE NORTH GROVE SOCIETYC$140,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.0M · 26 repeat orgsC$645k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

C$9.0M
C$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+81%

Still filing today

96%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$523k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • WF
    WINNIPEG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$2.9M · revenue +104% · 61% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$1.9M · revenue +101%
  • CN
    CPAWS NS
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$385k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • OR
    OTTAWA RIVER KEEPERSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +60%
  • RC
    RARE Christian Research Reserve
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k

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
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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2
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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3
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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4
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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5
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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6
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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7
Watersheds Canada
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8
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…

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9
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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10
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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11
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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12
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Long Point Region Conservation Authority. 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

32 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. 32 of the 34 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
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 budgetWINNIPEG FOUNDATION — C$2,850,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$1,915,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBLACK CREEK FRAM/FOODSHARE — C$610,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCPAWS NS — C$385,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$340,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA — C$338,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE STOP — C$317,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetONTARIO WATER CENTRE - CLEARWATER FARMS — C$312,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR — C$307,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetWORLD WILD LIFE FUN — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$187,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetST. JAMES TOWN FAMILY SERVICES — C$182,350 over 3y, 51% of budgetTHE NORTH GROVE SOCIETY — C$175,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetALUS CANADA - NORFOLK NS — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$130,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANDA — C$129,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WINNEPEG FOUNDATION — C$128,274 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOAK RIDGES MORAINE LAND TRUST — C$100,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSUCCESS BEYOND LIMITS SBL — C$100,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetDATASTREAM — C$100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE — C$90,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMABELLEARTS — C$60,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEvas Initiatives — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFreshwater Future Canada — C$50,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetAQUA FORUM — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEARTH RANGERS — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTides Canada — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Resource Center — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLong Point Region Conservation Authority — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA RIVER KEEPERS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAKEWAY — C$2,500 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.

Td Friends of the Env…Fondation Écho /Echo …The McLean FoundationRight To FoodRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationOntario Wildlife Foun…Makeway FoundationThe Gosling FoundationFlavelle Family Found…Weston Family Foundat…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON12.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Right To Food · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Ontario Wildlife Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The Gosling Foundation · Flavelle Family Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston

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 34 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 2022-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 865128177:2022-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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