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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lucky Bean Foundation

To receive and maintain funds and apply all or part of the principal and income to qualified donees as identified in subsection149.1(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$715k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$250k
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alpine CanadaC$250,000
The Princess Margaret Cancer FoundationC$200,000
DalhousieUniversityC$130,000
McGill UniversityC$75,000
Council for Canadian American RelationsC$60,475
Renanscent Foundation Inc.C$50,000
Nature Trust of New BrunswickC$50,000
Make Art ChangeC$50,000
Camphill Foundation CanadaC$50,000
Brigadoon VillageC$50,000
University of Toronto Community Radio IncC$40,000
UHN FoundationC$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 82% of grant dollars (C$2.1M). The 18% that went abroad (C$451k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 18% of all-years giving (C$451k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$451k · 4 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.2M · 7 repeat orgsC$285k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

C$2.2M
C$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+43%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$200k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TP
    THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$600k · revenue +12%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$260k · revenue +5%
  • MU
    McGill University
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$125k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · C$39k
  • TS
    THE SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC.graduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +43%
  • MU
    MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation

Dalhousie medical research foundation provides funding for research in the faculties of medicine health and dentistry at dalhousie university in the form of studentships graduate studentships fellowships chairs and other salary support the…

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2
Northern Cancer Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north (hsn) and health sciences north research institute (hsnri). amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment…

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3
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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4
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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5
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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6
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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7
Fondation De L'hopital Royal Victoria/Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation

The royal victoria hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for research. teaching and patient care, for the royal victoria hospital of the mcgill university health center (muhc) and its affiliated institutions

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8
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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9
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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10
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation is responsible for providing funds to assist in meeting the financial research education and patient care goals of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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11
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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12
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Making Art Making Change. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
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 budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcGill University — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKING ART MAKING CHANGE — C$100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCAMPHILL FOUNDATION CANADA - DONATION ON BEHALF OF — C$100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBrigadoon Village — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRenanscent Foundation Inc. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNature Trust of New Brunswick — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Toronto Community Radio Inc — C$40,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUHN Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALIFAX HUMANITIES — C$8,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION - SUNNYBROOK . — 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.

Charitable Gift Funds…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Toronto FoundationBenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON7.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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 18 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 710549304:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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