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Etobicoke, ON · Private foundation

The John Zanini Foundation

Active: the foundation will make grants to qualified donees that are canadian registered charities.

C$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$715
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$515
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIOLENCEC$60,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$515
LIGHTHOUSE FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLYC$200
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$427k · 7 repeat orgsC$141k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$427k
C$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

86%
86%

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%’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

  • CF
    CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$390k · revenue +38% · 28% of their budget
  • DC
    DURHAM CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOLL BOARD
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$6k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$5k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • JA
    JEAN AUGUSTINE CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue ×15
  • TD
    TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +22%
  • WO
    WYCHWOOD OPEN DOOR
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue 0%

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
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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2
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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3
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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4
Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation/Fondation Du Cancer De La Region D'ottawa

The ottawa regional cancer foundation is a supportive cancer care champion. we harness the power of our community to deliver life changing results for those affected by cancer. we offer a community cancer hub a single portal for local…

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5
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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6
Autism Speaks Canada

Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and…

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7
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

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

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8
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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9
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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10
Lymphoma Canada / Lymphome Canada

Lymphoma canada's mission is to empower patients and the lymphoma community through education support advocacy and research. this includes hosting educational webinars and education forums national patient and caregiver conferences funding…

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11
Pancreatic Cancer Canada Cancer du Pancreas Canada

Research: provided continued funding for an early detection study called prosperpanc that aims to identify biomarkers for faster diagnosis of pancreatic cancer as well as a study assessing the current landscape of palliative care in…

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12
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe De Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Fellowship Assembly. 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

14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
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 budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIOLENCE — C$390,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFULNESS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetWYCHWOOD OPEN DOOR — C$12,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetDURHAM CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOLL BOARD — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$4,865 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetERIN OAK KIDS CENTRE FOR TREATMENT AND DEVELOPMENT — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOAK PARK NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY — C$1,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYPPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSISSAUGA FOOD BANK — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$100 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Toronto FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Charities Aid Foundation CanadaON7.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Toronto Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 14 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 766366892:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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