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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Peter Gilgan Foundation

This private foundation makes donations to qualified donees as defined under the income tax act (canada) and as selected by the directors of THE PETER GILGAN FOUNDATION.

C$45M
Granted FY2024still arriving
208
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 208 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k33 grants · C$142k
  • C$10k–50k68 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$50k–250k91 grants · C$8.1M
  • C$250k+16 grants · C$35M
C$50,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sick Kids FoundationC$10,000,000
Trillium Health Partners FoundC$7,500,000
The Princess Margaret Cancer FoundationC$3,000,000
St. Michael's Hospital FoundationC$3,000,000
William Osler Health System FoundationC$2,862,430
UHN FoundationC$2,500,000
Trillium Health Partners FoundC$2,500,000
Community Food Centres CanadaC$1,000,000
Toronto Metropolitan UniversitC$800,000
MaRS Discovery DistrictC$450,000
World Bicycle ReliefC$411,175
Indwell Community HomesC$297,617
Green Communities CanadaC$287,458
Nature UnitedC$260,000
Pathways to Education CanadaC$250,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$113M
Quebec
C$1.3M
British Columbia
C$1.2M
Alberta
C$952k
Manitoba
C$180k
Nova Scotia
C$25k
Saskatchewan
C$15k
Nunavut
C$10k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$172M · 150 repeat orgsC$17M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

150 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
171

Total granted

C$172M
C$8.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+24%

Still filing today

99%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9.4M 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

  • SF
    SICKKIDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$58M · revenue +30%
  • TH
    Trillium Health Partners Found
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$26M · revenue +170%
  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$24M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2.0M · revenue +132%
  • EC
    EARLSCOURT CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · C$200k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    The Pembina Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k · revenue +121% · 61% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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2
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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3
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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4
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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5
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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6
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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7
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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8
Global Indigenous Development Trust

Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…

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9
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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10
Children International Canada

Children international canada carries out its charitable activities for the purpose of breaking generational poverty for the children they serve. this is done by delivering high-impact programs in four crucial areas: health education…

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11
Physical and Health Education Canada

Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) champions healthy active kids by working to ensure all children and youth have equitable access to the benefits of quality physical and health education (PHE) programming and healthy…

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12
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Planning Council of Ottawa/Le Conseil De Planification Sociale D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

389 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. 389 of the 418 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)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
382/389
Grantees still filing
246/389
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$57,573,645 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetTrillium Health Partners Found — C$25,609,128 over 5y, 19% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$24,200,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,000,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetToronto Metropolitan Universit — C$6,400,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$4,517,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$4,355,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,000,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$3,488,640 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWilliam Osler Health System Foundation — C$2,862,430 over 1y, 13% of budgetUHN Foundation — C$2,500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,966,416 over 1y, 17% of budgetCommunity Food Centres Canada — C$1,660,873 over 7y, 10% of budgetTeach For Canada — C$1,355,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetWorld Bicycle Relief — C$1,206,075 over 6y, 38% of budgetPathways to Education Canada — C$900,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPartners in Health Canada — C$794,867 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetRIGHT TO PLAY — C$756,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMaRS Discovery District — C$750,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPlan International Canada — C$718,431 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANAD — C$690,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetDavid Suzuki Foundation — C$642,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Canada — C$604,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA CANADA — C$600,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$550,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCIVIC ACTION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNPower Canada — C$550,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNature United — C$540,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBruce Trail Conservancy — C$529,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCARE Canada — C$525,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$524,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSENECA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$472,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWar Child Canada — C$470,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$443,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUp With Women — C$435,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$401,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSocial Innovation Canada — C$385,323 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetEcotrust Canada — C$360,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGreen Communities Canada — C$358,058 over 2y, 13% of budgetCanadian Feed The Children — C$346,866 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH RANGERS FOUNDATION — C$340,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER — C$308,236 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetClean Prosperity — C$305,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Transition Accelerator — C$300,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetShad Canada — C$300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetIndwell Community Homes — C$297,617 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds SICKKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trillium Health Partners Found ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Metropolitan Universit ↗
  • Who funds WE CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds William Osler Health System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UHN Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Centres Canada ↗
  • Who funds Teach For Canada ↗
  • Who funds World Bicycle Relief ↗
  • Who funds Pathways to Education Canada ↗
  • Who funds Partners in Health Canada ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT TO PLAY ↗
  • Who funds MaRS Discovery District ↗
  • Who funds Plan International Canada ↗
  • Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CANAD ↗
  • Who funds David Suzuki Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Canada ↗
  • Who funds FINCA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNICEF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC ACTION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NPower Canada ↗
  • Who funds Nature United ↗
  • Who funds Bruce Trail Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CARE Canada ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SENECA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds War Child Canada ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Up With Women ↗
  • Who funds World Wildlife Fund Canada ↗
  • Who funds Social Innovation Canada ↗
  • Who funds Ecotrust Canada ↗
  • Who funds Green Communities Canada ↗

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.

Kids Up Front Foundat…The Catherine and Max…The McLean FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…The Trottier Family F…Tippet FoundationUnifor Social Justice…Toronto FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Fondation Écho /Echo …Robert Kerr FoundationToronto District Scho…
Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto)ON25.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Tippet Foundation · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Toronto Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Toronto District School Board

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 418 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 2024-05-31, 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 835070327:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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