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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Morrison Foundation

The foundation makes grants to qualified donees.

C$897k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$431k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$80k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$731k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUMP MATH CANADAC$431,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$300,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$75,000
BEACHES SANDBOXC$25,000
ST JOSEPH HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION OF TORONTOC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$20,000
PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGEC$10,000
GLEBE ROAD UNITED CHURCHC$4,000
GEORGIAN BAY FOREVERC$3,000
TDSB- MALVERN CIC$3,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.3M · 3 repeat orgsC$622k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

C$4.3M
C$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$577k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • UO
    Univeristy of Toronto
    2× · 2018–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +42%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$909k · revenue +39%
  • LS
    Loran Scholars Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$330k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • MG
    MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +43%
  • HC
    HUMBER COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +35%
  • NU
    NEIGHBOURHOOD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +18%

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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Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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6
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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7
The Toronto Public Library Foundation

The toronto public library foundation (tplf) raises funds that amplify and accelerate the exceptional work of toronto public library (tpl). donations have a resounding impact on those who rely on tpl's programs services and community…

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8
Uwc (Toronto) Foundation

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

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9
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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10
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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11
Toronto Metropolitan University

The special mission of toronto metropolitan university is the advancement of applied knowledge and research to address societal needs and the provision of programs of study that provides a balance between theory and application that…

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12
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Foundation for Student Success and the most unlike its peers is Georgian Bay Forever. 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

15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
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 budgetUniveristy of Toronto — C$3,020,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$909,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJUMP MATH CANADA — C$431,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLoran Scholars Foundation — C$330,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION OF TORONTO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACHES SANDBOX — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMBER COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED LEARNING — C$19,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEIGHBOURHOOD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGLEBE ROAD UNITED CHURCH — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTDSB- MALVERN CI — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOREVER — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 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.

Hamilton Community Fo…Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Hamilton Community FoundationON7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 15 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 891660177:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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