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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Murphy Family Foundation

To make grants to charitable organizations considered as qualified donees by cra.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$300k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.5M
C$100,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$1,503,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$100,000
CANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATIONC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKC$100,000
THE CANADIAN FRIENDS OF WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 74% of grant dollars (C$16M). The 26% that went abroad (C$5.5M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 26% of all-years giving (C$5.5M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$3.2M · 2 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 13 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

C$20M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

85%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • SF
    SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$9.4M · revenue +93%
  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FDN.
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +31%
  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$675k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$600k · revenue +76%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$600k · revenue +7%
  • SH
    SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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3
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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4
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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5
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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6
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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7
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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8
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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9
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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10
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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11
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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12
Autism Science Foundation Canada

Asf canada's mission is to fund breakthrough research to improve the lives of people with autism. asf canada provides funds to support university-based research in canada. asf canada board members have presented at national conferences and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et De L'avc Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Rosalie Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
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 budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$9,389,800 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FDN. — C$1,000,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$675,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$600,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$210,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$30,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVMENT OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN FRIENDS OF WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FIREFIGHTER TOY DRIVE — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSALIE HALL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID JD HARRIS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY CANADA — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREMBLANT FOUNDATION — C$250 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.

Toronto FoundationThe Calgary FoundationMcMillan Family Found…Wcpd FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Foundation of …Aqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Toronto FoundationON8.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · McMillan Family Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 31 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 852087956:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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