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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Kololian Foundation

Targeted giving

C$238k
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
4
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$50k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$138k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MOSAIC INSTITUTEC$50,000
BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITYC$45,000
ARMENIAN COMMUNITY CENTREC$17,450
UPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTC$15,000
HOTDOCSC$15,000
TRUE PATRIOT LOVEC$10,500
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$10,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERYC$10,000
COUNCIL FOR BUSINESS AND THE ARTS IN CANADAC$9,156
TENNIS CANADAC$5,000
HAYASTAN FOUNDATION TORONTOC$5,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$5,000
TORONTO BIENNIAL ARTC$5,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$5,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 40 repeat orgsC$158k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
25

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

95%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$240k · revenue +31%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$130k · revenue +233%
  • TS
    Toronto Symphony Orchestra
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$102k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MU
    Mercer Union
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -24%
  • CS
    Canadian Stem Cell Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -100%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -24%

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
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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2
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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3
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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4
Ocad University Foundation
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5
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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6
The Canadian Art Foundation
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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
Toronto Media Arts Cluster

TMAC is a media arts centre located in the heart of Toronto's Art+Design district. We provide artists and the public with access to state of the art production studios galleries a cinema theatre opportunities for hands-on learning and…

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12
The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation

To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Namo Buddha Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
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 MOSAIC INSTITUTE — C$542,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY — C$194,413 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — C$130,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$102,470 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOTDOCS — C$72,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARMENIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$66,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Oochigeas — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAYASTAN FOUNDATION TORONTO — C$42,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMercer Union — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCovenant House — C$22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Canada College Foundation — C$20,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES — C$18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY — C$15,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCE'S CHARITIES CANADA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POWER PLANT — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO REHAB FOUNDATION UHN — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuminato — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMAM — C$12,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANS RIGHTS WATCH — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIFF — C$10,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIFAR — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH — C$10,250 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCanadian Stem Cell Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Zoryan Institute — C$10,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRegent Park School of Music — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR BUSINESS AND THE ARTS IN CANADA — C$9,156 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCISEPO — C$7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCNIB — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN PRELACY OF CANADA — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNamo Buddha Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuskoka Conservation — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAga Khan Museum — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF QUEBEC FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Hal Jackman FoundationThe Ouellette Family …The Simon and Maral H…Toronto FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…The Shen Family Chari…The Michael Young Fam…The McLean FoundationWeston Family Foundat…Jackman FoundationConam Charitable Foun…The Ira Gluskin and M…
Hal Jackman FoundationON18.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal Jackman Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · The Simon and Maral Hasserjian Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The Shen Family Charitable Foundation · The Michael Young Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Jackman Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun

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 69 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 advancing education.

Source object 890864572:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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