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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lawrason Foundation

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C$520k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k23 grants · C$460k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKINSON CANADA (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)C$55,000
HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIOC$35,000
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$35,000
RVH FOUNDATIONC$30,000
OPERATION EYESIGHTC$30,000
YORKMINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCHC$25,000
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$25,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$25,000
DIABETES CANADAC$25,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$25,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$25,000
THE SCOTT MISSIONC$20,000
MCMASTER DIVINITY COLLEGEC$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY HOPE ACRESC$15,000
STREET HAVENC$15,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 29 repeat orgsC$75k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
4

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$75k

Still filing today

90%
0%

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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • PC
    PARKINSON CANADA (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$440k · revenue +46%
  • OE
    Operation Eyesight
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$240k · revenue +70%
  • RF
    RVH Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$240k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k
  • TC
    TORONTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k
  • DH
    DORSET HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k

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
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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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
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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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
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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7
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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8
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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9
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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10
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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11
Mental Health Commission of Canada / Commission de la santé mentale du Canada

The mental health commission of canada (mhcc) shines a light on mental health and works to improve the lives of people who experience mental health problems and illnesses (as well as their families and caregivers). mhcc convenes…

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12
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Mcmaster Divinity College. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
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 budgetPARKINSON CANADA (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) — C$440,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO — C$295,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$280,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Eyesight — C$240,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetRVH Foundation — C$240,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION - PRACTISE BASE — C$205,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYORK MINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCH — C$195,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$174,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetMCMASTER DIVINITY COLLEGE — C$160,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$155,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - ROTMAN COMMERCE PROGRAM — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSKOKA STEAMSHIP & DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$135,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetDorset Community Partnership Fund — C$120,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetThe War Amps — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Haven — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES TORONTO — C$117,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY HOPE ACRES — C$117,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetST. STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAW FESTIVAL — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTOWNSHIP OF ALGONQUIN — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARTER'S FOREVER RESCUE & SANCTUARY — C$30,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetBARRIE SPCA — C$10,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds PARKINSON CANADA (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) ↗
  • Who funds HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Operation Eyesight ↗
  • Who funds RVH Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION - PRACTISE BASE ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Cancer Society ↗
  • Who funds CAMP OOCHIGEAS ↗
  • Who funds YORK MINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCMASTER DIVINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE SCOTT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - ROTMAN COMMERCE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSKOKA STEAMSHIP & DISCOVERY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Dorset Community Partnership Fund ↗
  • Who funds The War Amps ↗
  • Who funds Street Haven ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY HOPE ACRES ↗
  • Who funds ST. STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHAW FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds TOWNSHIP OF ALGONQUIN ↗
  • Who funds CARTER'S FOREVER RESCUE & SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds BARRIE SPCA ↗

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 FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…Fiera Capital Foundat…The McLean FoundationLink Charity Canada I…Canada GivesJewish Foundation of …Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Private Giving Founda…
Toronto FoundationON8.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · The McLean Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Canada Gives · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Private Giving 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 33 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 898780721:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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