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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Nixon Charitable Foundation

The foundatoin made donations to registered charities during the period.

C$537k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$115k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$350k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$350,000
RIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONALC$50,000
NATURE UNITEDC$25,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$25,000
CHURCH OF THE KETTLEC$20,000
BRANKSOME HALLC$20,000
RIGHT TO PLAY GALA FOUNDATIONC$15,000
PEACEBUILDERS INTERNATIONAL (CANADA)C$10,000
TORONTO FOUNDATIONC$5,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$5,000
SUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL - WOMENS HEALTH GOLF CLASSICC$2,800
NEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICESC$2,000
MASSEY CENTRE FOR WOMENC$2,000
LAWRENCE PARK COMMUNITY CHURCHC$2,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEC$2,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 26 repeat orgsC$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

96%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$375k 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +3%
  • RT
    RIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$580k · revenue +27%
  • SF
    SICKKIDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$300k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$350k · revenue +12%
  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k · revenue -2%
  • TC
    TRANS CANADA TRAIL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -12%

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
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
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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4
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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5
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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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
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

36 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. 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
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 budgetMARS — C$2,000,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$1,125,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL — C$580,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Michael's Foundation — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE UNITED — C$140,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS OF CANADA — C$103,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$50,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Prince's Charities Canada — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRANS CANADA TRAIL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH OF THE KETTLE — C$20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — C$15,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCAMH — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY CENTRE — C$15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE PARK COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CIRCLES — C$13,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHRTS WATCH — C$12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL - WOMENS HEALTH GOLF CLASSIC — C$11,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE ONTARIO — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLORAN SHOLARS FDN — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — C$8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAILS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLGE HOSPITAL FDN — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KIRK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 FoundationWeston Family Foundat…The Henry White Kinne…R. Howard Webster Fou…Jewish Foundation of …The Slaight Family Fo…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCanada GivesBurgundy Legacy Found…The Peter Gilgan Foun…D & G Estey Family Fo…
Toronto FoundationON13.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Slaight Family Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Canada Gives · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · D & G Estey Family 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 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 838927564:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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