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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Ouellette Family Foundation

Made gifts to qualified donees in accordance with foundation objectives most notably gifts to the museum of contemporary art of $300 000 and the united way of $126 000 and the architectural conservacny ontario of $32 429

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$73k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$155k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$195k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$700k
C$9,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA)C$700,000
UNITED WAYC$145,000
FRED VICTOR MISSIONC$50,000
CIFAR - CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$25,000
CROW'S THEATREC$25,000
CONNECTED NORTHC$25,000
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ARTC$20,000
TORONOT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORSC$10,000
THE EXCELSIS GROUPC$10,000
THE BENTWAY CONSERVANCYC$10,000
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP - SHARELIFEC$10,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$10,000
YONGE STREET MISSIONC$9,982
THE SCOTT MISSIONC$9,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 42 repeat orgsC$154k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
38

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k 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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +233%
  • FV
    FRED VICTOR MISSION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$160k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CIFAR - CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$130k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • IA
    Inuit Art Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k · revenue +58%
  • TA
    TORONTO ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -9%
  • TC
    THE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -36%

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.

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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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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6
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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7
Toronto Media Arts Cluster

TMAC is a media arts centre located in the heart of Toronto's Art+Design district. We provide artists and the public with access to state of the art production studios galleries a cinema theatre opportunities for hands-on learning and…

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8
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art/Centre De L'art Contemporain Canadien
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9
Toronto Photographers Workshop

Gallery TPW programs support Canadian and international artists and educate the public about the vital role that still photographs and moving images play in contemporary culture. We present up to five exhibitions per year at Gallery TPW…

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10
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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11
Ocad University Foundation
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12
Heritage Toronto

Heritage Toronto builds a better city by bringing people together to explore Toronto’s shared past and peoples’ lived experiences. It delivers 80+ public programs annually including: walking bus and cycling tours; heritage plaques; digital…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Arts 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

77 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. 77 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
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 budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA) — C$2,506,061 over 8y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$1,032,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRED VICTOR MISSION — C$160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCIFAR - CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVANCY ONTARIO — C$127,155 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE IVEY FUND - THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$61,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE EXCELSIS GROUP — C$60,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BENTWAY — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP - SHARELIFE — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$39,982 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL GARRON HOSPITAL (TORONTO EAST HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDAT — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$33,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$33,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKOFFLER CENTRE OF THE ARTS — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLA FONDERIE DARLING — C$29,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE OF ARCHITECTURE — C$29,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTED NORTH — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH (SHARELIFE) — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOSAIC INSTITUTE — C$20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInuit Art Foundation — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO ART FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONOT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN BRICKS WORKS — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BULLET — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Oochigeas — C$7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — C$6,405 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUMINATO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET - RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER — C$3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Festival — C$3,500 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.

Hal Jackman FoundationThe McLean FoundationToronto FoundationThe Kololian Foundati…The Shen Family Chari…Conam Charitable Foun…Gerald Sheff & Shanit…Cidel FoundationThe Delaney Family Fo…Partners in ArtThe Michael Young Fam…The Ira Gluskin and M…
Hal Jackman FoundationON21× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal Jackman Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Kololian Foundation · The Shen Family Charitable Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · Cidel Foundation · The Delaney Family Foundation · Partners in Art · The Michael Young Family Foundation · 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 883622516:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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