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Etobicoke, ON · Private foundation

The Marjorie and Joseph Wright Memorial Foundation

The objective of this foundation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$86k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$66k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$952k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES YESC$10,000
THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICEC$10,000
YONGE STREET MISSIONC$7,500
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$7,500
SHERBOURNE HEALTH CENTREC$7,500
GREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDSC$6,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTOC$6,000
GRAND RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$5,000
YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTERC$4,000
ARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTREC$4,000
PROACTION COPS AND KIDSC$3,500
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$3,500
ONTARIO NATUREC$3,000
HAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAYC$3,000
CONSERVATORY CANADAC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$544k · 23 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

C$544k
C$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+106%

Still filing today

96%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k 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

  • TD
    THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$62k · revenue +65%
  • YE
    YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES YES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$60k · revenue +50%
  • SH
    SHERBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TI
    TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k
  • GT
    GREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS
    one grant, 2018 · C$4k
  • CO
    CITY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k

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
Toronto Botanical Garden

To enable Toronto Botanical Garden's mission vision and values: Mission Toronto Botanical Garden connects people and plants fostering sustainable communities and developing reciprocal relationships with nature through lifelong learning.

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2
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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3
Toronto Youth Development

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

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4
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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5
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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6
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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7
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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8
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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9
Greenest City Enviromental Organization

The organization is dedicated to promoting environmental stewardship in the city of toronto

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10
Toronto Green Community Inc.

Eglinton park community garden: engage people of all ages from diverse communities in ecological gardening food security and placekeeping initiatives. rainscapeto: offers earth-friendly landscaping solutions that cultivates permeable…

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11
The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival

The Toronto Fringe produces two annual festivals every year. The Toronto Fringe Festival runs the first two weeks of July and presents over 80 productions at venues across the city of Toronto. The festival includes KidsFest which offers…

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12
Toronto Biennial of Art

The purpose of the organization is to create a first class international visual arts biennal for the city of toronto; art festival 72 days in length engaging youth families artists communities and professionals in the arts while building…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foodshare Toronto and the most unlike its peers is The Friends of Pinery Park. 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

30 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. 30 of the 35 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
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 budgetTHE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE — C$61,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES YES — C$59,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHERBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE — C$47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RIVER CONSERVATON AUTHORITY — C$33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS — C$32,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$30,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPROACTION COPS AND KIDS — C$27,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE — C$25,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO ZOO FOUNDATION — C$13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHWAY OF HEROES FUND ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDAT — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF PINERY PARK — C$10,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO ZOO — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AGAINST HUNGER CANADA — C$6,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF YORK REGION — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKINDRED SPIRITES ORCHESTRA — C$5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATORY CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN SQUASH TORONTO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOFF THE WALL STRATFORD ARTISTS' ALLIANCE — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetELORA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM UNBREAKABLE — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES YES ↗
  • Who funds SHERBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds YONGE STREET MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RIVER CONSERVATON AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds GREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds PROACTION COPS AND KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HIGHWAY OF HEROES FUND ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDAT ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF PINERY PARK ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHARE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO ZOO ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AGAINST HUNGER CANADA ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF YORK REGION ↗
  • Who funds KINDRED SPIRITES ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN ON THE QUEENSWAY ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATORY CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO NATURE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SQUASH TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds OFF THE WALL STRATFORD ARTISTS' ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ELORA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds TEAM UNBREAKABLE ↗

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.

Canada GivesToronto FoundationThe Catherine and Max…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Tippet FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Rotary Club of To…The George Lunan Foun…Kids Up Front Foundat…Johansen-Larsen Found…Charities Aid Foundat…Weston Family Foundat…
Canada GivesON10.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canada Gives · Toronto Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Tippet Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Rotary Club of Toronto Philanthropic Fund · The George Lunan Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston

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 35 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 861427045:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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