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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lawrence Family Foundation

For the advancement of education relief of poverty & purposes beneficial to the community as a whole with particular emphasis in ontario through donations to qualified donees.

C$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
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$10k1 grant · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$303k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CANADIAN STAGE CORPORATIONC$25,000
THE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANYC$10,000
FESTICAL WIND ORCHESTRAC$2,500
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$450k · 5 repeat orgsC$143k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

C$450k
C$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+44%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • BI
    BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$235k · revenue +44%
  • TI
    THE INSIDE OUT LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL INC.
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$140k · revenue -27%
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$36k

Funded once

  • CO
    COMMUNITY ONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue -85%
  • EC
    EAGLE CANADA-HUMAN RIGHTS TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +47%
  • OT
    OBSIDIAN THEATRE COMPANY INC.graduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +167%

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
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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2
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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3
The Factory Theatre Lab

Develop produce and present canadian plays thereby supporting and nourishing the canadian theatre scene playwrights and actors with a focus on supporting artists from diverse communities - provide artists support through development…

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4
Tarragon Theatre

Tarrgon theater creates develops and produces new canadian theatre that illuminates the diversity and complexsity of the conteporary human experence. tarragon trains and supports new generation emerging and established artist theorug…

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5
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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6
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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7
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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8
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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9
Studio 180 Theatre

Studio 180's purpose is to introduce toronto audiences to socially relevant teatre that provokes public discourse and promotes community engagement through the production of plays that tackle difficult societal issues as well as various…

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10
Eclipse Theatre Company

Eclipse Theatre Company develops new Canadian musicals in live venues.

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11
ThÉÂTre Scapegoat Carnivale

Scapegoat Carnivale is an award-winning theatre company reflecting the diverse talents and extraordinary creativity of the Montreal artistic community presenting contemporary work with an emphasis on education and community outreach. Our…

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12
The Purple Theatre Company

Produced original canadian theatre

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Stage Corporation and the most unlike its peers is L'institution Royale Pour L'avancement Des Sciences / Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
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 budgetBUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE — C$235,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE INSIDE OUT LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL INC. — C$140,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET-INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN STAGE CORPORATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ONE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEAGLE CANADA-HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOBSIDIAN THEATRE COMPANY INC. — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CANADA INITIATIVES SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHY NOT THEATRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MUSICAL STAGE COMPANY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHEATRE PASSE MURAILLE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST. STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASEY HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFESTICAL WIND ORCHESTRA — C$2,500 over 1y, 17% 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 FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…The George Cedric Met…The Catherine and Max…Kingfisher FoundationThe K. M. Hunter Char…Ontario Arts Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Private Giving Founda…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The McLean FoundationPride and Remembrance…
Toronto FoundationON13.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Private Giving Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Pride and Remembrance 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 17 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 820061273:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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