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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Peterson Foundation

The making of gifts to qualified donees

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$205k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.4M
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGGIES ACTION PROJECTC$205,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$200,000
CASEY HOUSEC$185,000
THUNDER WOMEN HEALING LODGE SOCIETYC$150,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$120,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$100,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$100,000
VETERANS TRANSITION NETWORKC$60,000
2-SPIRITED PEOPLE OF THE 1ST NATIONSC$50,000
ACCESS ALLIANCEC$50,000
ONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATIONC$50,000
FRIENDS OF RUBYC$50,000
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SAINT ELIZABETH HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONC$30,000
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$5.6M · 16 repeat orgsC$153k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k 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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +847% · 90% of their budget
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$650k · revenue +52%
  • TW
    THUNDER WOMEN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$600k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +1%
  • SF
    Sunnybrook Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +93%
  • TT
    Taragon Theatre
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +17%

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
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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2
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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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
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
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
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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7
West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation

West park healthcare centre foundation (wphcf) has been an integral partner with west park healthcare centre (wphc) for more than four decades. wphcf has partnered with wphc to expand programs and facilities support clinical research and…

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8
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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9
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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10
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

On july 1 2011 university health network (uhn) bn 119259505 acquired the assets and assumed the liabilities of toronto rehabilitation institute (tri) for nil proceeds. tri results included on the uhn tax return. tri is a fully affiliated…

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11
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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12
Anishnawbe Health Toronto

Physicians nurses dietitians physiotherapists chiropodist psychologist psychiatrist provide complementary health care. traditional healers elders and medicine people provide a wide range of health care including traditional doctoring and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Elizabeth Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Sinfonietta. 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

19 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. 19 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
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 budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,533,500 over 8y, 90% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$650,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHUNDER WOMEN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$600,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$370,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STREET HAVEN — C$300,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASEY HOUSE — C$285,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMAGGIES ACTION PROJECT — C$265,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF RUBY — C$250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budget2-SPIRITED PEOPLE OF THE 1ST NATIONS — C$200,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetACCESS ALLIANCE — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK — C$120,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCanadian Sinfonietta — C$27,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetSunnybrook Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaragon Theatre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternation Justice Mission Canada — C$2,500 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.

Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationThe Slaight Family Fo…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Azrieli Foundatio…Charities Aid Foundat…BenefAction FoundationJewish Foundation of …Canadian Women's Foun…Raymond James Canada …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…
Toronto FoundationON11.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 22 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 870478310:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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