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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation

To provide funds by way of gift to qualified donees under the income tax act.

C$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$51k
C$660
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$982k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST PARK FOUNDATIONC$31,175
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$20,000
CANADAHELPSC$6,043
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF CANADAC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE MUSKOKA WATERSHEDC$2,556
PARKINSON CANADA INCC$1,030
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$660
HISTORICA CANADAC$550
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER ACR (CANADA)C$500
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETYC$420
SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$250
THE TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$200
UHN FOUNDATIIONC$100
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$240k · 22 repeat orgsC$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
17

Total granted

C$240k
C$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k 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

  • WP
    WEST PARK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$99k · revenue +432%
  • C
    CANADAHELPS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +223%
  • UO
    University of Western Ontario
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$25k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BH
    Branksome Hall Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +12%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ONTARIO GATEWAY NORTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +50%
  • KW
    KIDS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS (KIP) CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue +60%

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
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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2
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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3
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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4
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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5
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
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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9
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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10
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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11
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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12
Canadian Health Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

40 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. 40 of the 44 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
32/40
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 budgetWEST PARK FOUNDATION — C$98,535 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$32,008 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Western Ontario — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$23,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBranksome Hall Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,852 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWest Park Foundation — C$8,930 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINUIT ART FOUNDATION — C$4,501 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MUSKOKA WATERSHED — C$4,056 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMOVEMBER — C$3,819 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$2,040 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY CANADA — C$2,002 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ONTARIO GATEWAY NORTH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$1,930 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA INC — C$1,811 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS (KIP) CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$900 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart And Stroke Foundation — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICA CANADA — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY TRIBUTE GIFT — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN CHARITY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL & MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZO — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEWS HOUSE HOSPICE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$214 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKOKA CONSERVANCY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATIION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING (MADD CANADA) — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC. — C$52 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 FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…Wcpd FoundationKopas Family Foundati…Hydro One Employees' …Muskoka Community Fou…BenefAction FoundationConam Charitable Foun…The John David and Si…The Burton Charitable…The Royal Canadian Le…The Peter Gilgan 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 · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Kopas Family Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Muskoka Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundation · The Burton Charitable Foundation · The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation · The Peter Gilgan 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 44 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 834467367:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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