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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The McKelvey Family Charitable Foundation

The Foundation funds other charities carrying out qualified charitable activities.

C$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$7,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Shaw Festival TheatreC$8,500
The Toronto Public Library FoundationC$7,000
Majengo CanadaC$5,000
New Circles Community ServicesC$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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$130k · 6 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

C$130k
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SF
    Shaw Festival Theatre
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$39k · revenue +17%
  • TT
    The Toronto Public Library Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$38k · revenue +74%
  • MC
    Majengo Canada
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$22k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • QU
    Queen's University at Kingston
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    COMKIDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +41%
  • VF
    Veritas Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +6%

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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Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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2
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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3
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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4
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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5
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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6
5T6 Civils Scholarship Fund the

Awards a scholarship to a second year engineering student at u of t

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7
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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8
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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9
Right to Play International

The corporation is a global organization that protects educates and empowers children to rise above adversity using the power of play. we reach millions of children each year in some of the most difficult places on earth helping them to…

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10
Uwc (Toronto) Foundation

To provide scholarships and financial awards to students with financial need.

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Shaw Festival Theatre Canada. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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 budgetShaw Festival Theatre — C$38,812 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Toronto Public Library Foundation — C$37,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMajengo Canada — C$22,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNew Circles Community Services — C$14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA SRI LANKA LIFE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$11,444 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQueen's University at Kingston — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMKIDS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVeritas Foundation — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationJ & L Rogers Family C…Burgundy Legacy Found…Aqueduct FoundationCanada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…Private Giving Founda…Abundance CanadaUnited Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Toronto FoundationON8.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · J & L Rogers Family Charitable Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 9 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 724029889:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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