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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Max Clarkson Family Foundation

Donations to charitable organizations

C$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,250
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ESPRIT ORCHESTRAC$3,000
THE INSTITUTE OF CANADIAN CITIZENSHIPSC$2,500
THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$2,500
THE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$2,250
TIMOTHY EATON MEMORIAL CHURCHC$2,000
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADAC$2,000
PARTNERS IN ARTC$1,500
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATIONC$500
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$196k · 10 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

C$196k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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

  • TE
    THE ESPRIT ORCHESTRA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$33k · revenue +17%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$27k · revenue +3%
  • NC
    NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$20k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROSEDALE DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +72%
  • N9
    NO. 9 CONTEMPORARY ART & THE ENVIRONMENT
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue -17%
  • WT
    WRITER TRUST CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +68%

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 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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2
Soundstreams Canada Concerts/Concerts Soundstreams Du Canada

Soundstreams is a global leader in the presentation of innovative carefully curated and immersive contemporary musical concerts. We are committed to showcasing the work of living Canadian and global composers/musicians often with the goal…

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3
The Musical Stage Company

Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for…

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4
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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5
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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6
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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7
University of Toronto Schools

University of toronto schools (uts) is a university preparatory school grade 7-12 affiliated with the university of toronto (u of t). uts offers high achieving students a specialized curriculum and a unique co-educational learning…

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8
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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9
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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10
Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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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 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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Child and Family Services of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Royal St George's College. 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

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
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 budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$79,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ESPRIT ORCHESTRA — C$33,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE — C$11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN ART — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIMOTHY EATON MEMORIAL CHURCH — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CANADIAN CITIZENSHIPS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MUSIC CONCERTS — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL — C$1,300 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ROSEDALE DAY SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO. 9 CONTEMPORARY ART & THE ENVIRONMENT — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWRITER TRUST CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES INC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERS AND FELLOWS OF MASSEY COLLEGE — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS - BARRIE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTER — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$500 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 FoundationHal Jackman FoundationThe McLean FoundationAqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Private Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…My Tribute Gift Found…
Toronto FoundationON11.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift 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 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 2024-10-31, 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 888032844:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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