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Canadian charities

Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lewis Cohen Family Foundation

Funding qualified donees

C$83k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$58k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$58k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JANICE LEWIS AND MITCHELL COHEN FOUNDATIONC$58,322
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PARTNERS IN ARTC$10,000
ARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTREC$2,500
GREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDSC$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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$377k · 14 repeat orgsC$183k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

C$377k
C$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$68k 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

  • DU
    DOANE USCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$60k · revenue +223%
  • JF
    JAYA FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$45k · revenue +307%
  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$30k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • LT
    L'ARCHE TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +75%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +37%
  • M
    MOCA
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -13%

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
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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2
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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3
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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4
Toronto Biennial of Art

The purpose of the organization is to create a first class international visual arts biennal for the city of toronto; art festival 72 days in length engaging youth families artists communities and professionals in the arts while building…

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5
Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre

Art starts inspires and cultivate social change by bringing professional artist and toronto residents together to create community building art projects in all artistic diciplines. art starts provides responsive and relevant creative…

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6
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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7
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Annual art fair showcasing more than 400 contemporary artists and makers held at nathan phillips square at toronto city hall as well as an online fair with around 100 artists.

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8
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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9
Magenta Publishing for the Arts

The flash forward incubator program gives young artists and educators an ability to work together to create dynamic learning experiences and resources that optimize student learning and set them on a path to success as they develop their…

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10
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen 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

28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
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 budgetDOANE USCHOOL — C$60,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTHE JANICE LEWIS AND MITCHELL COHEN FOUNDATION — C$58,322 over 1y, 30% of budgetJAYA FESTIVAL INC — C$45,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCHARLIE'S FREE WHEELS YOUTH EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH — C$31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetL'ARCHE TORONTO — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S BOOK BANK — C$30,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetGROWING NEIGHBOURHOODS FONDATION — C$27,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN ART — C$25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WALRUS CANADA'S CONSERVATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE — C$17,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS — C$16,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Canadian Art Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOCA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSTIY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAREARTS FOUNDATION INC. — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH EVERYWHERE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PEOPLE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMerit Award Bursary Program — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJazz Performance and Education — C$1,800 over 1y, 2.9% 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 McLean FoundationThe Janice Lewis and …J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Michael Young Fam…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…The George Lunan Foun…The George Cedric Met…The Catherine and Max…Jackman Foundation
Toronto FoundationON14.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Michael Young Family Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Jackman 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 28 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.

Source object 733918528:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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