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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Powis Family Foundation

The general purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds to be applied for the benefit of other charitable organizations in canada.

C$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITALC$50,000
TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITALC$50,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$10,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$10,000
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$5,000
CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATIONC$3,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$3,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYC$2,000
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANYC$2,000
ARTHRITIS SOCIETYC$2,000
CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN (KINVIA)C$1,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 31 repeat orgsC$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
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

  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$400k · revenue +25%
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$395k · revenue +83%
  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$60k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • RO
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +12%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k
  • HS
    HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k

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.

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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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2
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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3
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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4
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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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
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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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
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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10
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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11
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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12
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. 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

31 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. 31 of the 37 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
27/31
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 budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL — C$400,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$395,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$37,895 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL — C$33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCPA — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG ASSOCIATION — C$8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHIRITIS SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$7,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS — C$7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAR AMPS ONTARIO — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWWF CANADA — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO ZOO — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN (KINVIA) — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDINER MUSEUM — C$2,320 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM — C$2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SICK KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UPPER CANADA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds SCPA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTHIRITIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WAR AMPS ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds WWF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO ZOO ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN (KINVIA) ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GARDINER MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ↗

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.

Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON4.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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.

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 37 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 833948326:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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