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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

The Lowidt Foundation

Disbursement of funds to qualified donees.

C$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$368k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMHC$1,000
MOORELANDS CAMPC$1,000
MEDECINES SANS FRONTIERSC$750
FRED VICTORC$750
NORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANKC$500
YONGE ST MISSIONC$500
DISTRESS CENTRES OF TORONTOC$500
NORTH YORK WOMENS SHELTERC$500
COVENANT HOUSEC$500
CHILDREN'S BREAKFAST CLUBC$500
CENTRAL TORONTO YOUTH SERVICESC$500
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATOINC$500
CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATIONC$500
WWFC$250
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICESC$250
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$65k · 27 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

C$65k
C$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+28%

Still filing today

96%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MC
    MOORELANDS CAMP
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$7k · revenue +26%
  • FV
    FRED VICTOR
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$6k · revenue +70%
  • SF
    STARLIGHT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$6k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • EH
    EI Hogar Projects(Canada)
    one grant, 2018 · C$900
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BREAKFAST CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · C$500
  • LK
    LET KIDS PLAY/HOCKEY4YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue +99%

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
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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2
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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3
Ymca of Greater Toronto

The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…

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4
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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5
Youthlink

Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…

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6
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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7
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association York Region Branch

Cmha supports youth (age 12 to 25) with programs such mobyss bounceback choices and youth wellness. epi program supports youth aged 14-34 that are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. cmha serves adult clients in variety of programs…

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9
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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10
Housing for Youth in the City of York Corporation

The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.

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11
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto

JVS Toronto plays a vital role in Toronto and York Region ensuring that jobseekers reach their potential at work and employers build the workforce they need to be successful. Programs and services include a mix of general and specialized…

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12
For Youth Initiative in Toronto

The organization provides programs to create and foster an inclusive environment where youth and adult representatives of the diverse community of york in the city of toronto can work in partnership to address youth needs and issues and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Huntsville District Memorial Hospital 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

36 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. 36 of the 43 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
31/36
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 budgetMOORELANDS CAMP — C$6,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT FOUNDATION — C$5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATOIN — C$3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$3,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKids in Camp — C$3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOORELANDS CAMP — C$3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINES SANS FRONTIERS — C$3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$3,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetOutside Looking In — C$2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK WOMENS SHELTER — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetONT FEDERATION FOR CEREBRAL PALSY — C$2,250 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES — C$2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CAMP — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRES OF TORONTO — C$1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYONGE ST MISSION — C$1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLKGBT YOUTH LINE — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST. CLEMENTS — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentennial Infant Centre — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Christian Resource Centre — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMICI CAMPING CHARITY — C$750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLET KIDS PLAY/HOCKEY4YOUTH — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBreakfast Clubs of Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCMHA TORONTO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVAS PLACE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR SCRUFF — C$500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$250 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.

Toronto FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Canada GivesJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationThe McLean FoundationOntario Power Generat…The Catherine and Max…Jackman FoundationRotary Club of Toront…The Henry White Kinne…The George Lunan Foun…
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 · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Canada Gives · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The George Lunan 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 43 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 public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 888004249:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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