Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Petman Foundation
THE PETMAN FOUNDATION continued it's support of improving education by supporting operation of the enrichment program at bishop's college school
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k9 grants · C$230k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | C$225,000 |
| WINDMILL MICROLENDING | C$60,000 |
| CD HOWE INSTITUTE | C$50,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR CANADA | C$35,000 |
| PIX FLIM | C$35,000 |
| CONVENANT HOUSE | C$30,000 |
| GIRL'S E-MENTORSHIP | C$30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$30,000 |
| TRAILS YOUTH | C$30,000 |
| THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE | C$15,000 |
| UNITED WAY | C$15,000 |
| THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -95% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.
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
- BCBISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.4M · revenue +253%
- WMWINDMILL MICROLENDING6× · 2019–2024 · C$190k · revenue +221%
- CHCD HOWE INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · C$150k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IINASMUCHone grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue -95%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Corrientes Del Sur Collectivo De Cine Y Video/Southern Currents. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDMILL MICROLENDING ↗
- Who funds CD HOWE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PIX FLIM ↗
- Who funds AMANI CANADA ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR CANADA ↗
- Who funds CONVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRL'S E-MENTORSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOROTHY LEY HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds LIASON OF INDEPENDENT FILMAKERS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CURRENTS FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds YORKMINSTER PAR BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds INASMUCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: River Community Society · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.