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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation

The foundation funded registered charities providing medical religious cultural and educational service in ontario quebec and the united states.

C$5.8M
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
10
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$39k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$819k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$4.8M
C$20,000
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$249M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAHC$1,800,636
BROWN UNIVERSITYC$1,493,756
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
LASSONDE ART TRAIL FOUNDATIONC$550,000
MUSEE D'ART JOLIETTEC$231,000
RIOPELLE FOUNDATIONC$200,000
MT. ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$132,500
S&Y FOUNDATIONC$105,750
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREALC$100,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$50,000
PORTRAIT GALLERY OF CANADAC$25,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BILND INTERNATIONALC$25,000
TRNAS-CANADA TRAILC$20,000
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$15,000
UNITED WAYC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 52% of grant dollars (C$19M). The 48% that went abroad (C$18M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 48% of all-years giving (C$18M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$18M · 24 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$33M · 41 repeat orgsC$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
34

Total granted

C$33M
C$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$939k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$3.6M · revenue +39%
  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$3.2M · revenue +30%
  • WU
    WESTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$2.3M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSTIY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2020 · C$1.7M
  • UU
    UNIVERSITY UTAH
    one grant, 2021 · C$408k
  • OI
    OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$296k

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.

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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
Ocad University Foundation
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3
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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4
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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5
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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6
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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7
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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8
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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9
La fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau /the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The foundation encourages research reflection and action in areas important to canadians. the foundation works through four programs: doctoral scholarships fellowships mentorships and public engagement events and conferences.

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10
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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11
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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12
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is St. Clement's School. 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

63 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. 63 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
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 budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$3,600,100 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$3,176,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$2,319,920 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFONDATION DU MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC — C$1,600,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetOpportunity International Canada — C$1,308,262 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetYork University — C$1,100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$1,000,003 over 3y, 59% of budgetLASSONDE ART TRAIL FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$433,750 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetRIOPELLE FOUNDAITON — C$400,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTORONTO FRENCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$330,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Bishop Strauchan School Foundation — C$322,035 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$275,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH-BLOOR STREET — C$267,600 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORP. FOR THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO — C$250,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL — C$250,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMUSEE D'ART JOLIETTE — C$231,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$170,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind International — C$155,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Opera Company — C$95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRyerson University — C$80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCANADIAN ENGINEERING MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — C$37,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$32,502 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. CLEMENT'S SCHOOL — C$32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTRAIT GALLERY OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMining Matters — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHONORE - MERCIER — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFONDATION POUR L'ART THERAPEUTIQUE ET L'ART BRUT AU QUEBEC ( — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFONDATION PEGASE — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO TECH UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MIKE'S HOSPITAL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentre d'histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWRITER'S TRUST OF CANADA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION DU MUSEE D'ART DE JOLIETTE — C$3,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Book Bank — C$2,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCovenant House — 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 FoundationConam Charitable Foun…The Slaight Family Fo…Judy and Wilmot Matth…Audain FoundationAqueduct FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…Giftpact Foundation I…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Trottier Family F…Wcpd FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…
Toronto FoundationON11.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation · Audain Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Wcpd Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear 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 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 2023-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 891205346:2023-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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