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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lewitt Family Foundation

The foundation's activities have primarily been focused on providing support for education and music programs for those less fortunate

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$240k
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$10k2 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$402k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$715k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGOC$240,000
DOANE MUSIC SCHOOLC$125,000
MUSIC EDUCATION CHARITY OF CANADAC$125,000
SONGWRITER'S ASSOCIATION OF CANADAC$75,000
THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALLC$50,000
ORKIDSTRA - SISTEMA OTTAWAC$50,000
LETS TALK SCIENCEC$50,000
MALVERN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTREC$48,500
AVENUE ROAD MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE ACADEMYC$42,500
THE CHILDREN'S BOOKBANKAND LITERACY FOUNDATIONC$40,000
LIFTED LITERACY AND LEADERSHIPC$30,000
VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGC$30,000
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$30,000
ZAMAR MUSIC INC.C$25,200
MARSH STREET COMMUNITYCENTREC$22,000
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 22 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
17

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$296k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • MC
    MUSIC COUNTS - MUSIC EDUCATION CHARITY OF CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$400k · revenue +31%
  • DM
    DOANE MUSIC SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$350k · revenue +134%
  • SC
    SHAD CANADA
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$300k · revenue +393%

Funded once

  • PM
    Princes Margaret Cancer Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.5M · revenue +59%
  • YP
    YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue -22%
  • JC
    JAYS CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -21%

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.

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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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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 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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4
Mozart Project

The Mozart Project is a nationally recognized charitable organization inspired by the universality accessibility diversity and beauty of Mozart’s vast repertoire. The Mozart Project operates the Toronto Mozart Players a professional…

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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
Cfmta Trust

Cfmta trust is a national organization that encourages and prmotes the knowledge and appreciation of music in schools and universities and among the general public of canada. the organization provides programs for young music artists…

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7
Toronto Music Experience Inc.

Preserve and showcase toronto's unique music history across all genres including jazz blues classical pop folk rock reggae hip hop latin indigenours electronic and world music provides educational and public programs exhibitions events and…

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8
The Artists Mentoring Youth Project Inc.

The artists mentoring youth project inc. builds the leadership confidence and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in toronto by providing them with performance training connections to artistic mentors experience working in a…

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9
Canadian Music Competitions - Toronto Region

Annual music program; preparation of performers; logistics of competition; hosting programs for performers

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10
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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11
Music Toronto

Music toronto produces a main fall-winter series of traditional and contemporary chamber music concerts and recitals including international and canadian artists. we produce a mini series called celebration of small ensembles 'cose' that…

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12
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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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 Marsh Street Community Centre. 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

47 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. 47 of the 49 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
28/47
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 budgetPrinces Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSIC COUNTS - MUSIC EDUCATION CHARITY OF CANADA — C$400,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALL — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOANE MUSIC SCHOOL — C$350,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSHAD CANADA — C$300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAGO — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$206,659 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCANADIAN MUSIC THERAPY FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetLETS TALK SCIENCE — C$165,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — C$100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetREGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$100,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMALVERN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$81,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSONGWRITER'S ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetHOLIDAY HELPERS CANADA — C$75,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAVENUE ROAD MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE ACADEMY — C$62,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCANADA LEARNING CODE — C$52,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJAYS CARE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORKIDSTRA - SISTEMA OTTAWA — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetRAINBOW SONGS FOUNDATION — C$37,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetSISTEMA TORONTO — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL - YOUTH CRAFT ACADEMY — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetZAMAR MUSIC INC. — C$25,200 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST ROBOTICS CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHARBOURFRONT CORPORATION — C$22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARSH STREET COMMUNITYCENTRE — C$22,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetJESSIE'S- THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTORY PLANET — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTORONTO LIVE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTORONTO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOTUS CENTRE FOR SPECIAL MUSIC EDUCATION — C$16,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOKBANK AND LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN ACTION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO LIVE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHOE BOX PROJECT FOR WOMEN — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S OPERA COMPANY — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$5,000 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.

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…Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Azrieli Foundatio…The Catherine and Max…The Slaight Family Fo…Jackman FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The Henry White Kinne…Canada GivesThe Charles H. Ivey F…McCarthy Tetrault Fou…
J.P. Bickell FoundationON18.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Canada Gives · The Charles H. Ivey Foundation · McCarthy Tetrault Foundation / Fondation McCarthy Tetrault

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 49 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 872691092:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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