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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation

The Foundation provides donations to various charitable organizations.

C$7.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$675k
  • C$250k+7 grants · C$6.6M
C$200,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMHC$1,512,500
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$1,500,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$1,025,000
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$1,018,210
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,000,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADAC$300,000
ESPRIT ORCHESTRAC$275,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$200,000
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKC$200,000
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ARTC$125,000
SOUNDSTREAMS CANADAC$100,000
CANADA NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
NEW MUSIC CONCERTSC$25,000
BUSINESS FOR THE ARTSC$8,600
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$30M · 32 repeat orgsC$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
25

Total granted

C$30M
C$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

94%
80%

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%’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

  • RC
    ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$7.3M · revenue +17%
  • C
    CAMH
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$6.0M · revenue +41%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.9M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2019 · C$2.8M
  • MI
    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITURE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2021 · C$312k
  • ET
    ECO TRUST CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$300k · revenue +135%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
The Toronto Symphony Foundation

The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.

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8
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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9
Syrinx Concerts Toronto

Syrinx was established to produce and promote concerts featuring canadian artists and composers by producing an annual series of chamber concerts.

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10
Mozart Project

The Mozart Project is a nationally recognized charitable organization inspired by the universality accessibility diversity and beauty of Mozart’s vast repertoire. The Mozart Project operates the Toronto Mozart Players a professional…

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11
The Hnatyshyn Foundation - La Fondation Hnatyshyn

The foundation's objectives are to promote excellence in the arts in canada by awarding study grants prizes and residencies to emerging developing and mid-career artists and curators. the foundation provided program grants and awards…

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12
Ocad University Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Art Association of Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Art Gallery At Harbourfront. 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

51 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. 51 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
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 budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$7,257,635 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetCAMH — C$5,988,140 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$2,850,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$2,570,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,355,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIFAR — C$1,650,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$1,370,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTHY NETWORK — C$1,200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$750,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA — C$560,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetESPRIT ORCHESTRA — C$490,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetSOUNDSTREAMS CANADA — C$480,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetEVERGREEN TORONTO BRICKWORKS — C$325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHARVERGAL COLLEGE — C$300,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetECO TRUST CANADA — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAVERGAL COLLEGE — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POWER PLANT — C$195,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNEW MUSIC CONCERTS — C$155,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE AT MASSEY COLLEGE — C$140,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGEORGE HULL CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCANADA NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLUMINATO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoul pepper — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$22,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART OF TIME ENSEMBLE — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHarbourfront Centre — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN GOULD FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCare Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINUIT ART FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Public Library — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Youth Orchestra of Canada — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Ribbon Campaign — C$3,815 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Art Association of Canada — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomen's Musical Club of Toronto — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHannaford Youth Program — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds CAMH ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds CIFAR ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTHY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ESPRIT ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDSTREAMS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN TORONTO BRICKWORKS ↗
  • Who funds HARVERGAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ECO TRUST CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HAVERGAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE POWER PLANT ↗
  • Who funds NEW MUSIC CONCERTS ↗
  • Who funds ART CANADA INSTITUTE AT MASSEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE HULL CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SMITHERS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADA NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds OUTWARD BOUND ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds LUMINATO ↗
  • Who funds MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Soul pepper ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ↗
  • Who funds ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE ↗

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.

The Azrieli Foundatio…Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationKoerner FoundationHal Jackman FoundationThe George Cedric Met…The Henry White Kinne…The Michelle Koerner …The Ouellette Family …Ontario Arts Foundati…Jackman FoundationThe Sabourin Family F…
The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation AzrieliQC19× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Koerner Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · The Michelle Koerner Family Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Jackman Foundation · The Sabourin Family 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 57 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 864919105:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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