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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Michael Young Family Foundation

We make donations to qualified donees primarily in the areas of conservation education and the arts focusing on environmentally-driven projects in both urban and rural communities.

C$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$405k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$114k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$405k
C$51,600
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$405,000
TOWNSHIP OF THE ARCHIPELAGOC$200,000
CENTRE FOR LAND CONSERVATIONC$200,000
HOPETOWNS COMMUNITY VENTURESC$175,000
LAY-UP YOUTH BASKETBALLC$150,000
KAWARTHA LAND TRUSTC$150,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$100,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE SCHAD FOUNDATIONC$100,000
EVERGREENC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAC$51,600
TORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE AND CREATIVITYC$50,000
JUDY AND WILMOT MATTHEWS FOUNDATIONC$33,951
DOUG PHILPOTT INNER-CITY CHILDREN'S TENNIS FUNDC$25,000
THE REFUGE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTREC$25,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.9M · 37 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
20

Total granted

C$9.9M
C$793k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+21%

Still filing today

95%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$460k 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

  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +3%
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.3M · revenue +144%
  • E
    EVERGREEN
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • ST
    Soulpepper Theatre Company
    one grant, 2017 · C$410k · revenue -43%
  • AG
    Art Gallery of Ontario Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +146%
  • MS
    Montcrest Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +56%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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5
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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6
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Annual art fair showcasing more than 400 contemporary artists and makers held at nathan phillips square at toronto city hall as well as an online fair with around 100 artists.

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7
Ocad University Foundation
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8
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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9
The Joe Plaskett Foundation

A prize worth $75 000 is granted bi-annually to an emerging canadian artist. the award comes with the obligation to live abroad for a year making art and experiencing foreign culture.

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10
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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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
Toronto Photographers Workshop

Gallery TPW programs support Canadian and international artists and educate the public about the vital role that still photographs and moving images play in contemporary culture. We present up to five exhibitions per year at Gallery TPW…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Montcrest School. 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

59 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. 59 of the 63 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
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 budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$1,434,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$1,320,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$1,060,251 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetKAWARTHA LAND TRUST — C$985,670 over 8y, 11% of budgetCentre for Land Conservation — C$800,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetInternational Conservation Fund of Canada — C$712,772 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHopeTowns Community Ventures — C$579,061 over 3y, 44% of budgetTORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION — C$503,154 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetSoulpepper Theatre Company — C$410,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPARK PEOPLE — C$357,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetLAY-UP YOUTH BASKETBALL — C$355,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetLUMINATO — C$265,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJudy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation — C$201,549 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$160,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBallet Jorgen Canada — C$140,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$125,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COLIN B GLASSCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR — C$112,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$112,100 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SCHAD FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Walrus Foundation — C$71,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART — C$70,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPartners in Art — C$61,700 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMontcrest School — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArt Canada Institute at Massey College — C$50,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCanadian Film Centre — C$38,889 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgian Bay Forever — C$35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMELLY'S WORKPLACE — C$35,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$30,447 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHamilton Community Foundation — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$29,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOUG PHILPOTT INNER-CITY CHILDREN'S TENNIS FUND — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE REFUGE YOUTH OUTREACH CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOTDOCS — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget221 A Artist Run Centre Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$15,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART — C$13,875 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leacock Foundation — C$13,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEWATER CANADA — C$12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINSPIRATIONS STUDIO — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$10,000 over 2y, 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.

Hal Jackman FoundationToronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Shen Family Chari…The Ira Gluskin and M…La Fondation Emmanuel…Gerald Sheff & Shanit…Judy and Wilmot Matth…Jackman FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Weston Family Foundat…Burgundy Legacy Found…
Hal Jackman FoundationON22.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal Jackman Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Shen Family Charitable Foundation · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Burgundy Legacy 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 63 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 890287618:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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