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North York, ON · Private foundation

The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation

The foundation's activities are to award grants to qualified donees.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$139k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$370k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$500k
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION (CREEMORE BRANCH NO 397)C$250,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$250,000
WATERSTONE FOUNDATIONC$75,000
DOROTHY LEY HOSPICEC$75,000
YORKMINSTER PARK MEALS ON WHEELSC$70,000
PINE RIVER INSTITUTEC$50,000
ESCARPMENT CORRIDOR ALLIANCEC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF MEDICINEC$50,000
ST MARK'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$40,000
OUT IN THE COLDC$40,000
PARKDALE PRJECT READC$24,000
RIVERBRINK ART MUSEUMC$20,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTOC$15,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.8M · 13 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
26

Total granted

C$2.8M
C$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

92%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$454k 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

  • TP
    THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +59%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - NATURAL
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$308k · revenue +42%
  • DL
    DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$195k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • NN
    NEWARK NEIGHBOURSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$150k · revenue +51% · 39% of their budget
  • BW
    BLACK WOMEN IN MOTION
    one grant, 2022 · C$70k
  • TW
    TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue -9%

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
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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3
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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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
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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7
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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8
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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9
Community Living Toronto

Community Living Toronto provides a variety of innovative supports to children youth and adults with an intellectual disability and their families. Our person-centered services and supports aim to foster natural community networks and…

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10
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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11
Toronto Children's Care Inc.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Toronto provides a range of family-centred services for families with a seriously ill or injured child while they receive medical care. Our programs include an 81-room House in downtown Toronto and…

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12
North York Community House

North York Community House (NYCH) is an award-winning dynamic multi-serviceneighbourhood centre that has been working with residents in under-resourced andlow-income neighbourhoods of northwest Toronto for over 30 years. We are committed…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Development Institute and the most unlike its peers is Hospice Huronia Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 45 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,575,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - NATURAL — C$307,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROTHY LEY HOSPICE — C$195,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPine River Foundation — C$175,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNEWARK NEIGHBOURS — C$150,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetYORKMINSTER PARK MEALS ON WHEELS — C$121,200 over 3y, 28% of budgetPINE RIVER INSTITUTE — C$86,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE — C$82,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetWATERSTONE FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetChild Development Institute Foundation — C$75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$71,851 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA TORONTO — C$62,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESCARPMENT CORRIDOR ALLIANCE — C$50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetRIVERBRINK ART MUSEUM — C$44,610 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetST MARK'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$40,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCNIB — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutward Bound Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFirst Oneida Baptist Church — C$25,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetThe Neighbourhood Group Community Services — C$24,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE HURONIA — C$24,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPARKDALE PRJECT READ — C$24,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHope Haven Therapeutic Riding and Family Camp Inc. — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMusic Niagara — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPediatric Oncology Group of Ontario — C$19,998 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care & Emily's House — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Film In The Schools (REEL CANADA) — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF COMPASSION — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIGNITE THE SPIRIT OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — C$15,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetThe Children's Book Bank and Literacy Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER BAPTIST CHURCH — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Canadian Foundation for the Prevention of Family Violenc — C$14,400 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNew Circles Community Services — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSecond Harvest — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Massey Centre for Women — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEER PARK UNITED CHURCH (MEALS ON WHEELS) — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Toronto Children's Chorus — 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Toronto FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…The McLean FoundationThe Bickle-Wilder Fou…Jewish Foundation of …Hodgson Family Founda…Rotary Club of Toront…The Dalglish Family F…TD Securities Underwr…Jackman Foundation
J.P. Bickell FoundationON14.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Bickle-Wilder Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Hodgson Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation · The Dalglish Family Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · Jackman 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 45 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 893373928:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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