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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Pluralism Fund

Fund organizations that focus initiatives on enhancing canadian pluralism primarily through the arts.

C$340k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
1
Regions reached
C$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$131k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$184k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chamber Factory: Works for Small EnsemblesC$65,000
The Toronto ConsortC$60,000
Toronto Chamber SocietyC$59,065
Tafelmusik Foundations CanadaC$45,500
Toronto Mass Choir Inc.C$45,000
The Gallery Players of NiagraC$30,000
Music TorontoC$10,000
Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership - Carleton UniversityC$5,000
Liliana Komorowska Foundation for the ArtsC$5,000
North Wind ConcertsC$5,000
Glen Gould FoundationC$5,000
African Canadian Christian NetworkC$5,000
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$182k · 3 repeat orgsC$189k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

C$182k
C$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$189k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • TT
    The Toronto Consort
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$70k · revenue +4%
  • TF
    Tafelmusik Foundations Canada
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$63k · revenue -15%
  • TM
    Toronto Mass Choir Inc.
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$50k · revenue -20%

Funded once

  • CF
    Chamber Factory: Works for Small Ensemblesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$65k · revenue +114% · 43% of their budget
  • TC
    Toronto Chamber Society
    one grant, 2018 · C$59k · revenue -8% · 92% of their budget
  • TG
    The Gallery Players of Niagra
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue -8%

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
Syrinx Concerts Toronto

Syrinx was established to produce and promote concerts featuring canadian artists and composers by producing an annual series of chamber concerts.

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2
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society

Present concerts of all kinds - mostly classical chamber music

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3
Ottawa Chamber Orchestra

Provide music and orchestral experiences to the ottawa community

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4
The Art of Time Ensemble

The art of time ensemble brings together canada's foremost classical musicians with some of the country's greatest actors dancers and choreographers as well as jazz and pop musicians to present concerts. programs include music from the…

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5
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra

Five concerts

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6
The Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto

The amadeus choir conducts a regular series of concerts in the greater toronto area presenting well-known artists in works by canadian and international composers and accompanies major works with instrumental ensembles full orchestra in…

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7
Amici Chamber Ensemble

The ensemble is a classical chamber music trio which presents a four to six concert series per year of classical modern and commissioned chamber music often assisted by well known musicians from canada and sometimes abroad.

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8
Continuum Contemporary Music Ensemble

Continuum is a collective of composers and performers interested in the practice and promotion of contemporary music with a mandate to present lesser known canadian composers alongside established composers from around the world. the…

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9
Niagara Concerts
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10
Erato Ensemble Society

Presentation of live musical works both existing and newly composed through commission of canadian composers in the art-song and chamber music tradition

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11
The Royal Conservatory of Music

RCM provides music and arts education across Canada.

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12
Toronto Latvian Concert Association

Concerts and Festivals promotion and support for performing groups composers musical ensembles grants and awards for Canadian artists.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Carleton University. 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

12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
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 budgetThe Toronto Consort — C$70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetChamber Factory: Works for Small Ensembles — C$65,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTafelmusik Foundations Canada — C$62,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetToronto Chamber Society — C$59,065 over 1y, 92% of budgetToronto Mass Choir Inc. — C$49,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetThe Gallery Players of Niagra — C$30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMusic Toronto — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLiliana Komorowska Foundation for the Arts — C$5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAfrican Canadian Christian Network — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPhilanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership - Carleton University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlen Gould Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

The Azrieli Foundatio…Toronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation AzrieliQC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Toronto Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 12 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 2018-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2019) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 837115765:2018-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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