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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Purpleville Foundation

Grant making please see attached schedule of gifts qualified donnees for the organizations supported

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$545k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$185k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.4M
C$75,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITYC$545,100
ST.JOHN'S COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDC$422,951
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$422,618
SIMINOVITCH PRIZE FOUNDATIONC$110,000
FOOD SHAREC$75,000
WOODLAND CULTURAL CENTREC$25,000
ALUS CANADAC$25,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$15,000
PLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP MONTREAL INCC$9,000
JAKE RIDEC$5,000
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 — 75% of grant dollars (C$15M). The 25% that went abroad (C$4.9M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 25% of all-years giving (C$4.9M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 22 repeat orgsC$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

C$15M
C$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

91%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$457k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$3.3M · revenue +34%
  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$876k · revenue +23%
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN OPEN LAB
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$425k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Oxford
    one grant, 2017 · C$3.4M
  • MD
    MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · C$700k · revenue -48%
  • WA
    Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +29%

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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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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2
Ocad University Foundation
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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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7
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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8
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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9
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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10
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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11
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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12
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La maison bleue: milieu de vie préventif à l'enfance. 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

35 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. 35 of the 39 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
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 budgetUTS FOUNDATION — C$7,500,002 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$3,305,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$875,839 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT — C$700,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN OPEN LAB — C$425,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD SHARE — C$300,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSIMINOVITCH PRIZE FOUNDATION — C$255,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN — C$174,982 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$149,982 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES — C$110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$108,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALUS CANADA — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWalter and Duncan Gordon Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJAKE RIDE — C$40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetJack.org — C$36,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLIE'S FREEWHEELS YOUTH EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budget221A ARTIST RUN CENTER SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING ART CHANGE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE SANTÉ MCGILL - MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING ART MAKING CHANGE — C$11,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP MONTREAL INC — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIGHTS COMMUNITY LIVING TRUST — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING ART CHANGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA CAFETERIA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaking ITGlobal Youth Association — C$1,000 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 FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…The J W McConnell Fam…Burgundy Legacy Found…The McLean FoundationWalter and Duncan Gor…Weston Family Foundat…The Trottier Family F…Aqueduct FoundationJackman FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…Conam Charitable Foun…
Toronto FoundationON12.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Aqueduct Foundation · Jackman Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Conam Charitable 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 39 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 2024-06-30, 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 859803041:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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