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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Michelle Koerner Family Foundation

The Foundation provides donations to various charitable organizations.

C$418k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$303k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADAC$103,350
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCEC$100,000
MARSC$50,000
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ARTC$50,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$30,000
MUSEUM OF COMPTEMPORARY ART TORONTO CANADAC$25,000
ART CANADA INSTITUTE AT MASSEY COLLEGEC$25,000
CANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOLC$24,950
YWCA TORONTOC$5,000
THE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 15 repeat orgsC$226k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k 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

  • TB
    TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$299k · revenue +102%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$234k · revenue +3%
  • GH
    GEORGE HULL CENTRE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$130k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • GM
    GARDINER MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +300%
  • TF
    TORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE & CREATIVITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -7%
  • CS
    CANADIAN STAGE
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +21%

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 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 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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3
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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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
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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6
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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7
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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8
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art/Centre De L'art Contemporain Canadien
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9
Toronto Media Arts Cluster

TMAC is a media arts centre located in the heart of Toronto's Art+Design district. We provide artists and the public with access to state of the art production studios galleries a cinema theatre opportunities for hands-on learning and…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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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 Evergreen. 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA — C$359,850 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$299,142 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$234,365 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARS — C$200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE HULL CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetEvergreen Toronto Brickworks — C$121,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Comptemporary Art Toronto Canada — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE AT MASSEY COLLEGE — C$70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCAMH — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$34,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mabin School — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGARDINER MUSEUM — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURE & CREATIVITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN STAGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$13,420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCAD U — C$10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetYWCA TORONTO — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bentyway — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCouncil for Business and Arts in Canada — C$3,509 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Ballet of Canada — C$2,000 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.

Hal Jackman FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Shen Family Chari…The Michael and Sonja…The Ouellette Family …The Jack Weinbaum Fam…Toronto FoundationLynwood Family Founda…The Delaney Family Fo…Partners in ArtThe Michael Young Fam…Aqueduct Foundation
Hal Jackman FoundationON15.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal Jackman Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Shen Family Charitable Foundation · The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Lynwood Family Foundation · The Delaney Family Foundation · Partners in Art · The Michael Young Family Foundation · Aqueduct 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 25 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 823457569:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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