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The Murray Frum Foundation

Stratford festival royal conservatory of music loran's scholar ajax hospital foundation gardiner museum bravo niagara royal conservatory of music north york food bank 519 community centre crow's theatre shorefest foundation camh gift of light shaw festival

C$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$68k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$793k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHORE FASTC$25,000
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BRAVO NIAGARA! FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSC$15,000
MCMICHAEL ART GALLERYC$10,000
CROW'S THEATREC$10,000
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$10,000
AJAX PICKERING HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ROYAL OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC.C$6,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORYC$5,000
519 CHURCH STREET COMMUNITY CENTREC$5,000
NORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANKC$5,000
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
NEXT CANADAC$5,000
SHELTER MOVERSC$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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 32 repeat orgsC$94k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
43

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+35%

Still filing today

94%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k 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
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$287k · revenue +3%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$215k · revenue +17%
  • CT
    CROW'S THEATRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$168k · revenue +357%

Funded once

  • OS
    Ontario Science Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • TS
    TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k · revenue -23%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k

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
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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3
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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4
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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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
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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8
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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9
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Crew. 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

71 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. 71 of the 83 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
48/71
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$286,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY — C$214,607 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$167,680 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$131,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVO NIAGARA! FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS — C$69,471 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUDNATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHOREFAST FOUNDATION — C$52,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAJAX PICKERING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$37,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOS Children's Village — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget519 CHURCH STREET COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shaw Festival — C$25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$23,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLoran Scholars Foundation / Fondation Boursiers Loran — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPelee Island Bird Observatory — C$17,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART — C$17,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC. — C$16,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMCMICHAEL ART GALLERY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSICAL STAGE CO — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TWENTY THEATRE COMPANY — C$14,492 over 2y, 31% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT CANADA — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADAHELPS (THE TWENTY THEATRE COMPANY) — C$7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HUMANITY — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$5,726 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUSK DANCES — C$5,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUELPH UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCanadian Motorsport Heritage Foundation — C$4,300 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSMILE THEATRE — C$3,601 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Power Plant — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORKTOWN CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Mark's Anglican Church — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL REGIMENT OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaladi Child Education Fund of Toronto — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The McLean FoundationGerald Sheff & Shanit…La Fondation Emmanuel…Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationHal Jackman FoundationWeston Family Foundat…The Slaight Family Fo…The George Cedric Met…Clench House Foundati…Jewish Foundation of …The Ira Gluskin and M…
The McLean FoundationON18× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Slaight Family Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Clench House Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun

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 83 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 891445975:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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