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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Leonard Charities

To provide funds for religious educational and charitable objectives and purposes subject to such terms and conditions as the general committee shall from time to time in its discretion by resolution designate and direct.

C$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$565k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED FOR LITERACYC$5,000
CROSSFIRE ASSEMBLYC$5,000
WINNIPEG ART GALLERYC$4,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLSC$3,500
YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATREC$3,348
SUDBURY MANITOULIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONC$3,000
EMMANUEL PARISH CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRISTC$1,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$183k · 11 repeat orgsC$25k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

C$183k
C$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • FC
    FRONTIER COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$33k · revenue +44%
  • WA
    WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +41%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • LT
    LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2017 · C$8k · revenue -30%
  • PS
    PARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +62%
  • JU
    JOBS UNLIMITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +35%

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 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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2
The Musical Stage Company

Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Sick + Twisted Theatre Inc.

We offer free classes to emerging artists with disabilities taught by professional theatre/film/media artists. We present live theatrical performances to the public with a majority of contributing artists (actors writers directors…

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7
Arts Umbrella Association

The arts umbrella association (association) is canada's visual and performing arts institute for young people from ages of 2 to 22. it provides programming annually in dance theatre music film media arts arts & design. the association…

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8
The Arts Access Fund

The arts access fund awards scholarships to children from low income families to study visual and performing arts. funding artists providing programs to supplement the tdsb curriculum in elementary schools in underprivileged areas of…

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9
Winnipeg Studio Theatre Inc.

Creating developing and performing original Canadian contemporary plays and musicals. Teaching and mentoring Manitoba theatre students

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10
Shakespearience Performing Arts

Deliver inclusive educational programs to young people in Grades 3-12 which cross all age academic cultural linguistic and socio- economic boundaries. Shakespearience currently offers three programs: an in-school workshop which visits more…

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11
Solar Stage

Developing children's theatre programs and presentations

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12
Infinitheatre

Theatrical productions and readings for the general public and school groups. Playwrighting workshops and contests for adults & youth. In-house publishing of plays produced by Infinitheatre.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Glitch Theatre Society. 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

20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$33,496 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWINNIPEG ART GALLERY — C$32,104 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS — C$22,279 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSFIRE ASSEMBLY — C$21,830 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSUDBURY MANITOULIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$19,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$17,348 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetL'ARCHE SAINT JOHN — C$11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINNER CITY OUTREACH — C$8,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYCLIFFE COLLEGE — C$7,009 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetREALWHEELS SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBALLET JORGEN CANADA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANK — C$3,328 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOBS UNLIMITED — C$3,328 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR. STIRLING MCDOWELL FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSILENT VOICE CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTETRA SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOME HOSPICE ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEMMANUEL PARISH CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF CANADIAN SECONDARY STUDENTS — C$200 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Georgina Foundati…The Catherine and Max…The McLean FoundationTD Securities Underwr…The George Lunan Foun…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Youth and Philanthrop…Toronto FoundationCanada GivesTELUS Friendly Future…Private Giving Founda…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Georgina Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The McLean Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · The George Lunan Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · 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 20 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 892319047:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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