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Markham, ON · Private foundation

The Light Foundation

Donations had been received and the foundation is actively evaluating programs that it should support in order to carry out its purposes.

C$238k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$190k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$300k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FU HUI EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$120,000
SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORKC$70,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$20,000
PO LAM BUDDHIST ASSOC$5,000
IBPS OF TORONTOC$5,000
INTL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY OF OTTAWAC$5,000
CHAM SHAN TEMPLEC$5,000
HONG FOOK MENTAL HEALTHC$5,000
MON SHEONG FOUNDATIONC$2,500
CANADIAN SIFONETTA YOUTH ORCHESTRAC$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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$285k · 7 repeat orgsC$152k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

C$285k
C$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$131k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SH
    SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$180k · revenue +165%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$35k · revenue +5%
  • NY
    NORTH YORK HAVEST FOOD BANK
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$20k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue -47%
  • MS
    MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +147%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +14%

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
Canada Chung Tai Shan Buddhist Foundation

We remain dedicated to providing two essential online programs: Meditation Practice and Dharma Study. These offerings create a structured environment for learning the core teachings of Zen Buddhism and integrating them into daily life. Our…

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2
Chuen Te Buddhist Society (City of Toronto)

Religious meetings services and classes teaching the Buddhist faith.

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3
Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom - Canada

The charity operates two buddhist temples (toronto & nyc) to offer public buddhist services meditation courses and retreats buddhist studies and training program. also the charity runs a rural retreat in upstate ny.

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4
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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5
The Canada Bodhi Dharma Society

1. Hold events on Buddhist celebration and offer dharma sermons to the public 2 Offer health related events and seminars to the public 3 Offer meditation practices to the public and promote physical and mental health.

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6
Indian Buddhist Society Toronto Inc.

Promoting lord buddha's teachings of non-violence and brotherhood in the society

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7
Buddhist Society of Ontario

Advancing the teachings of Buddhist religion to adherents of the Buddhist faith and general public and maintaining a house of worship. Sermons conducted by Monks on a daily basis Meditation sessions and Retreats Performing religious…

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8
Ottawa-Hull Cambodian Buddhist Association Inc.

The initiative aims to promote the teachings of buddism with the national capital region fostering a deeper understanding of buddhist philosophy and practices. it seeks to provide religious educational instrument helping individuals to…

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9
True Peace Sangha of Toronto

We hold Monday and Thursday meditation and study sessions. We hold days of mindfulness and multi-day retreats. We support monasteries and practice centres in our Buddhist tradition.

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10
Chan Buddhist Society of Canada
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11
Lotus Blooming Buddhist Charitable Foundation

to engage in the practice and worship of the Buddhist religion; - to promote Buddha's teaching and generosity to society; - to assist and serve the public in need with the help of those who study Buddha's teaching.

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12
Buddhist Dharmalaksana Society of Ontario

We hold programs lectures seminars and broadcasting programs for religious studies and ceremonies for members and the public. We publish books on Buddhist studies for members and broadcast on different radio stations in North America.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hf Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cham Shan Temple. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK — C$180,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK HAVEST FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHONG FOOK MENTAL HEALTH — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINTL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY OF OTTAWA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAM SHAN TEMPLE — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMON SHEONG FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPO LAM BUDDHIST ASSO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIBPS OF TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO — C$1,000 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charities Aid Foundation CanadaON5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 14 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 750578130:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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