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Brampton, ON · Private foundation

The Policaro Foundation

February heart month: every february policaro foundation will raise donations to the policaro fetal cardiac fellowship in support of sickkids.

C$248k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$237k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$11k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$237k
C$562
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$236,787
HOSPICE VAUGHANC$2,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$1,780
VAUGHAN FOOD BANKC$1,000
SILSTAR FOUNDATIONC$1,000
MENS SANAC$1,000
BOOST CHILD ABUSE AND INTERVENTIONC$1,000
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$704
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$562
DI MARCO FAMILY FOUNDATIONC$259
WAVES OF CHANGES FOR AUTISMC$250
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$250
UHN FOUNDATIONC$250
STEFANIE CAPUTO FOUNDATIONC$250
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTREC$250
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$789k · 18 repeat orgsC$126k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
23

Total granted

C$789k
C$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$726k · revenue +11%
  • HV
    HOSPICE VAUGHAN
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$4k · revenue +42%
  • MS
    MENS SANA
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$3k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BREAST CANCER SOCIETY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$58k
  • TB
    THE BREAST CANCER SOCIETY OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$24k · revenue +110%
  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +76%

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
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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2
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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3
The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants

The Foundation granted wishes to children suffering from high risk life threatening illnesses. The foundation also funds research and provides grants to health care facilities in Canada that either research diseases that particularly…

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4
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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5
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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6
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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7
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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8
Canadian Health Foundation
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9
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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10
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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11
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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12
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's College Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School. 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

44 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. 44 of the 47 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)
44/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
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 budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$725,687 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$23,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISE FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJOSEPH BRANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMY TRIBUTE GIFT FOUNDATION — C$6,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE VAUGHAN — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSILSTAR FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMENS SANA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE SERVICE — C$2,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLIE FUND — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADA — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A WISH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENELOPE NEUROBLASTOMA FOUNDATION — C$1,611 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAUGHAN FOOD BANK — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWE LOVE YOU CONNIE FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,314 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHN FOUNDATION — C$1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER — C$1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOST CHILD ABUSE AND INTERVENTION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET MARY CHURCH — C$750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVES OF CHANGES FOR AUTISM — C$650 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOS — C$515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE PROGRAM FO GRIEVING CHILDREN — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDI MARCO FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEFANIE CAPUTO FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAZMAN FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES — C$200 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.

Oakville Community Fo…The Ciro and Caterina…The Di Marco Family F…Wcpd FoundationAqueduct FoundationCanada GivesCharities Aid Foundat…Toronto FoundationUnited Way Golden Hor…TELUS Friendly Future…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Vancouver Foundation
Oakville Community FoundationON8.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oakville Community Foundation · The Ciro and Caterina Gucciardi Charitable Foundation · The Di Marco Family Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Toronto Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Vancouver 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 47 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 2024-09-30, 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 761529510:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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