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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Nikita Foundation

To make charitable contribution to 'qualified donees' as defined under the provisions of the income tax act ( canada) as it may be amended from time to time.

C$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$3k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$4.0M
C$529
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$282M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCEANA CANADAC$2,000,000
SECOND HARVESTC$2,000,000
PARKINSON CANADAC$2,000
CHILDREN BELIEVEC$529
JUNO BEACH CENTREC$500
AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTREC$250
NORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATIONC$150
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$42M · 12 repeat orgsC$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
25

Total granted

C$42M
C$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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

  • SH
    Second Harvest
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$13M · revenue ×12
  • MG
    MICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$13M · revenue +26%
  • OC
    OCEANA CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$8.7M · revenue +68% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • WF
    WOODGREEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +236%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +5%
  • SM
    ST. MATTHEW'S BRACONDALE HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +33%

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
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
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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3
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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4
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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5
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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6
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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7
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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8
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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9
Scarborough Health Network Foundation

Situated in one of the most diverse communities in the world Scarborough Health Network Foundation (SHN Foundation) raises funds for state of the art medical equipment and building projects for Scarborough Health Network and its associated…

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10
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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11
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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12
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. 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

40 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. 40 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
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 budgetSecond Harvest — C$13,001,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$12,500,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetOCEANA CANADA — C$8,660,000 over 8y, 45% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$6,361,448 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMontcrest School — C$1,507,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetGOOD FOOT DELIVERY & SUPPORT SERVICES — C$200,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE CANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION — C$122,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$115,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWOODGREEN FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MATTHEW'S BRACONDALE HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ST CHRISTOPHER HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEWATER CANADA — C$4,985 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — C$2,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIBE ARTS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL — C$1,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN BELIEVE — C$661 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF — C$630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMCOE HALL SETTLEMENT HOUSE — C$600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNO BEACH CENTRE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOS CHILDERN'S VILLAGES — C$432 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO SPCA — C$365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALEDONIA AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIQINIK NUATSIVIK NUNAVUT FOOD BANK — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT RESCUE AND ADOPTION — C$200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE PETERBOROUGH — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATION — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$100 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 McLean FoundationJackman FoundationAqueduct FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…R. Howard Webster Fou…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Canada GivesPrivate Giving Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Leslois Shaw Foundati…La Fondation Emmanuel…
Toronto FoundationON12.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Canada Gives · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Leslois Shaw Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso

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 41 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 802198408:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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