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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation

Gifting of funds to qualified donees

C$736k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$639k
C$65,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing AbuseC$165,000
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital FoundationC$115,000
Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice CareC$115,000
Campfire CircleC$100,000
York UniversityC$78,784
StepStones for YouthC$65,000
Blissymbolics Communication InternationalC$40,000
Community Music Schools of Toronto FoundationC$25,000
Haven on the QueenswayC$20,000
Dalhousie UniversityC$6,000
Good Grief! Bereavement Healing ServicesC$5,000
The Elmer lseler SingersC$1,500
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 22 repeat orgsC$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
9

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

95%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • YU
    York University
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +22%
  • TR
    The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$690k · revenue +104%
  • EH
    Emily's house (Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$680k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SE
    SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue ×13
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER TORONTO
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +4%
  • BH
    BLUEWATER HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +27%

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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University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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2
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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3
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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4
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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5
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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6
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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7
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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8
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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9
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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10
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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11
SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute

Training Research Resource for Children's Mental Health 1. Training: To provide training including seminars workshops and intensive training to practitioners in the field of children's mental health such as Psychiatry Social Work…

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12
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dalhousie University. 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

32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
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 budgetYork University — C$1,055,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse — C$690,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetEmily's house (Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care) — C$680,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCampfire Circle — C$440,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation — C$280,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOOST CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$200,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetStepStones for Youth — C$180,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBlissymbolics Communication International — C$150,000 over 8y, 81% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — C$130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada — C$90,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Music Schools of Toronto — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHaven on the Queensway — C$65,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hammer Band-From Violence to Violins — C$60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE LAW SOCIETY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDalhousie university — C$48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetELMER ISLER SINGERS — C$25,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER TORONTO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT PARK SCHOOL & MUSIC FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhilanthropic Foundations Canada — C$14,914 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACCENT ON ABILITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetGood Grief! Bereavement Healing Services — C$5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCAMP AWAKENING — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FoundationRobert Kerr FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…Frederick and Douglas…The Bickle-Wilder Fou…Youth and Philanthrop…The Peter Gilgan Foun…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…The Charles H. Ivey F…Johansen-Larsen Found…TD Securities Underwr…
Toronto FoundationON11.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Charles H. Ivey Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund

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 32 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 889570420:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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