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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Macmillan Family Foundation

To provide charitable donations to qualified canadian charities

C$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 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–50k5 grants · C$95k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$225k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAMARA CENTRE FOR DEMOCRACYC$225,000
PEOPLE FOR EDUCATIONC$30,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$25,000
THE TORONTO LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$20,000
STRONG MINDS STRONG KIDSC$10,000
PEN CANADAC$10,000
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$5,000
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCILC$5,000
MASSEY COLLEGEC$3,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.9M · 8 repeat orgsC$545k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

C$3.9M
C$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-26%
+38%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$65k 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

  • TS
    The Samara Project
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue -8% · 60% of their budget
  • MC
    MASSEY COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$353k · revenue +18%
  • CF
    Challenge for Change C4C
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$300k · revenue -98% · 95% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    University of King's Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$200k · revenue +41%
  • OB
    OUTWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -21%
  • BS
    Biship Strachan School
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +20%

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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The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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2
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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3
La fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau /the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The foundation encourages research reflection and action in areas important to canadians. the foundation works through four programs: doctoral scholarships fellowships mentorships and public engagement events and conferences.

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4
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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5
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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6
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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7
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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8
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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9
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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10
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Federation Canadienne Des Sciences Humaines

Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences: We organize Canada’s largest annual academic gathering for thousands of researchers graduate students policymakers and members of the public converge to exchange knowledge and engage in…

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11
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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12
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Biglake Arts. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
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 Samara Project — C$2,985,000 over 8y, 60% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$353,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetChallenge for Change C4C — C$300,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetUniversity of King's College — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$134,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Food Centres of Canada — C$60,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBiship Strachan School — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP STRAGHAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEN CANADA — C$45,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Women's Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIGLAKE ARTS — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE TORONTO LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH — C$17,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUR-ED FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTRONG MINDS STRONG KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDANFORTH JEWISH CIRCLE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIVIX — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — 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.

Toronto FoundationMakeway FoundationAqueduct FoundationBay Tree FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…R. Howard Webster Fou…Bealight FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Jackman FoundationHamilton Community Fo…Wcpd FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…
Toronto FoundationON11.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Bay Tree Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Bealight Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Private Giving 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 23 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 848717757:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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