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North York, ON · Public foundation

The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation

The Foundation receives maintains and grants funds for programs and activities of charitable organizations that help children and youth while enhancing and serving the community such as the BGC Toronto Kiwanis (formerly Toronto Kiwanis Boys & Girls Clubs).

C$559k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$349k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$150k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$349k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO KIWANIS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBSC$348,600
Sistema Toronto AcademyC$50,000
URBANPROMISE TORONTOC$10,000
The Hopeworks Connection Inc.C$10,000
The Children's Bookbank and Literacy FoundationC$10,000
STEPSTONES FOR YOUTHC$10,000
SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTHC$10,000
Scarborough Centre for Healthy CommunitiesC$10,000
Rainbow Songs FoundationC$10,000
MOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICESC$10,000
Mentoring Juniors Kids Organization (MJKO)C$10,000
Jamii EsplanadeC$10,000
I Challenge DiabetesC$10,000
EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTHC$10,000
EAST TORONTO FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTREC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 85% of grant dollars (C$3.7M). The 15% that went abroad (C$665k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 15% of all-years giving (C$665k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 24 repeat orgsC$963k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
43

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$963k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+24%

Still filing today

92%
58%

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%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • TK
    TORONTO KIWANIS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +16%
  • TK
    Toronto Kiwanis Boys And Girls Club
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$290k · revenue +167% · 44% of their budget
  • ST
    Sistema Toronto Academy
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$110k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • 1I
    100 in 100 Program (Kiwanis)
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k
  • HP
    HIGH PARK SIGNATURE PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · C$150k
  • TD
    TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    one grant, 2021 · C$125k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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2
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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3
Lay-Up Youth Basketball

Lay-up is working on the future of access to basketball through cost-free leadership basketball programs in toronto's priority communities. lay-up's mission is to empower youth with confidence life skills and to support their positive…

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4
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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5
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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6
Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre

Art starts inspires and cultivate social change by bringing professional artist and toronto residents together to create community building art projects in all artistic diciplines. art starts provides responsive and relevant creative…

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7
Newcomer Women's Services Toronto

Providing instructions in english to newcomers to canada; civic engagement and arts and culture activities providing life skills instructions; child minding activities pre-employment training and job development assistance volunteering…

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8
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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9
Friends in Toronto Community Services

Friends in Toronto delivers programs for families living in poverty. Our afterschool program develops leadership skills academic ability and team work. We provide healthy snacks to these youth and a safe alternative to the streets. Through…

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10
Central Toronto Youth Services

1. responds to the needs of young people their families and the youth serving community through advocacy research education & direct service programming. 2. provide & offer support & counseling services for youth via groupwork community…

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11
The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival

The Toronto Fringe produces two annual festivals every year. The Toronto Fringe Festival runs the first two weeks of July and presents over 80 productions at venues across the city of Toronto. The festival includes KidsFest which offers…

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12
The Reading Partnership

The reading partnership's mission is to create and deliver literacy-focused programs that empower children in their early years to become successful at all stages of life. program offerings prioritize black indigenous and racialized…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is David Mcantony Gibson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 67 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
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 budgetTORONTO KIWANIS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS — C$2,202,632 over 4y, 20% of budgetToronto Kiwanis Boys And Girls Club — C$290,150 over 3y, 44% of budgetKiwanis Music Festival — C$186,487 over 4y, 20% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$124,757 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSistema Toronto Academy — C$110,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — C$60,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSTEPSTONES FOR YOUTH — C$50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMENTORING JUNIORS KIDS ORGANIZATION (MJKO) — C$40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetEAST TORONTO FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE AND NATURAL OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE INC. — C$30,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetRainbow Songs Foundation — C$27,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Children's Bookbank and Literacy Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetScarborough Centre for Healthy Communities — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hopeworks Connection Inc. — C$20,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJamii Esplanade — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetURBANPROMISE TORONTO — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLAY AND PAPER THEATRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetINNER CITY OUTREACH — C$19,960 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetI Challenge Diabetes — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS E-MENTORSHIP INNOVATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AUTISM AWARENESS CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFCJ REFUGEE CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTS ETOBICOKE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN ACTION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVIBE ARTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH RISING ABOVE — C$10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLICENSED TO LEARN INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLAKESHORE ARTS COMMITTEE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOR YOUTH INITIATIVE IN TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILIP AZIZ CENTRE FOR HOSPICE CARE (EMILY HOUSE) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBOURLINK NORTH YORK — C$9,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHIGH PARK INITIATIVES — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDAVID MCANTONY GIBSON FOUNDATION (GLOBAL MEDIC) — C$7,754 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCABBAGETOWN COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODGREEN RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK YOUTH HELPLINE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS SUPPORT PROGRAM — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTIE REFUGEE WELCOME CENTRE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Toronto FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Kids Up Front Foundat…The George Lunan Foun…Johansen-Larsen Found…The McLean FoundationJackman FoundationThe Catherine and Max…St. Andrew's Charitab…Tippet FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The George Cedric Met…
Toronto FoundationON20× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · The George Lunan Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation · Tippet Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable 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 67 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 105223051:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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