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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Leonard Foundation

To provide scholarships for approved students to enable them to pursue a course of study in specified colleges and universities.

C$194k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$43k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k40 grants · C$151k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$43k
C$3,463
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$43,296
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$8,659
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEGC$8,656
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKC$6,927
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$6,927
TORONTO METRO UNIVERSITYC$6,927
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$6,927
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBAC$6,927
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$6,926
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$6,925
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$6,925
YORK UNIVERSITYC$5,194
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$5,194
ACADIA UNIVERSITYC$3,464
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$3,464
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$316k
British Columbia
C$220k
Manitoba
C$140k
Alberta
C$116k
Nova Scotia
C$86k
New Brunswick
C$77k
Quebec
C$65k
Saskatchewan
C$47k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$44k
Prince Edward Island
C$3k
Northwest Territories
C$2k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 61 repeat orgsC$64k to everyone else

61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
18

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$134k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$56k · revenue +20%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$54k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
    one grant, 2019 · C$14k
  • TW
    TRINITY WESTERN
    one grant, 2022 · C$4k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    CONSTEGA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$4k

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
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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2
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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3
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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4
St Mary's University

St. Mary’s University is an independent Catholic University that provides innovative teaching and research and offers accredited degrees in Liberal Arts Sciences and Education. Located on a historic site in Calgary Alberta StMU inspires…

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5
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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6
Concordia University of Edmonton

Offer post-secondary undergraduate and graduate programs upgrading and distance learning programs

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7
Nipissing University

Nipissing university is a canadian university which provides undergraduate programs in liberal arts science. business and undergraduate and graduate programs in educaiton. nipissing university aspires to provide an environment commited to…

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8
The King's University

The King's University offered post-secondary education to over 800 students enrolled in B.A. B.SC. B.Mus. B.Ed. and B.Comm. programs.

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9
Cégep de Sherbrooke

Nous tenons un collège d'enseignement général et professionnel

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10
Universite De Sherbrooke

Enseignement supérieur et recherche

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11
The University of St. Michael's College

The University of St. Michael's College is a Catholic post-secondary educational and research institution federated with the University of Toronto. The University offers undergraduate courses in the arts and sciences through its Arts and…

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12
Royal Roads University

Royal roads university offers undergraduate graduate and executive programs in the applied and professional fields. the university offers degrees in arts; business and science; graduate diplomas; executive certificates; and professional…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais and the most unlike its peers is Aurora College. 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

80 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. 80 of the 85 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
69/80
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$134,301 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$55,535 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$54,454 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG — C$52,984 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$48,479 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$44,167 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$43,981 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$43,762 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$33,433 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$30,762 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$30,446 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$30,169 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$29,112 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$27,294 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$21,929 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$20,842 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$19,587 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNVERISTY OF OTTAWA — C$18,434 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE LAVAL — C$18,165 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$17,668 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$15,847 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO METRO UNIVERSITY — C$15,295 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REGINA — C$14,011 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$12,713 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$12,489 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$11,736 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$11,232 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$10,495 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE — C$10,481 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$9,709 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASTER'S COLLEGE AND SEMINARY — C$9,002 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDON UNIVERSITY — C$8,776 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCAD UNIVERSITY — C$8,202 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRANDALL UNIVERSITY — C$8,104 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMACEWAN UNIVERSITY — C$7,490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$7,098 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY — C$6,868 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY — C$6,779 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY — C$6,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$6,704 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$6,617 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMOSUN COLLEGE — C$6,508 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$5,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRED RIVER COLLEGE — C$5,466 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE — C$5,225 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY — C$4,788 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY — C$4,032 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN — C$3,832 over 1y, 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 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNVERISTY OF OTTAWA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITE LAVAL ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO METRO UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REGINA ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ACADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL ↗
  • Who funds MASTER'S COLLEGE AND SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OCAD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CRANDALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MACEWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Central Okanagan Burs…Enactus CanadaThe Joyce Family Foun…Les Soeurs de la Cong…Cwb Welding FoundationWorld Wildlife Fund C…Northwestern Alberta …The Kpmg Foundation/L…Fundy Community Found…The Winnipeg Foundati…Ottawa Community Foun…West Vancouver Commun…
Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship SocietyBC21.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · Enactus Canada · The Joyce Family Foundation · Les Soeurs de la Congrégation de Notre Dame · Cwb Welding Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Fundy Community Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · West Vancouver Community 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 85 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 advancing education.

Source object 892327040:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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