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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Ralph M. Barford Foundation

The foundation's mission is to support various health care organizations particularly as they relate to multiple sclerosis individual scholarships at a variety of educational institutions and other charities through financial donations

C$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$50k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$240k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$845k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$2.0M
C$30,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSTIY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$500,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$450,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$425,000
ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$346,395
MS CANADAC$250,000
CAMHC$200,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$200,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$75,000
BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITYC$60,000
THE READING PARTNERSHIPC$60,000
UNH FOUNDATION NC$50,000
THE BRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CONNECTED NORTHC$50,000
ENACTUS CANADAC$50,000
LAWRENCE PARK COMMUNITY CHURCHC$50,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 41 repeat orgsC$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
18

Total granted

C$12M
C$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+25%

Still filing today

95%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$706k 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +43%
  • IB
    Ivey Business School/The University of Western University
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$1.2M · revenue +29%
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$718k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TR
    TORONTO REHAB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k
  • UO
    University of Toronto - Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +46%
  • NW
    NATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$45k · revenue +75%

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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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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2
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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3
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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4
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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5
Toronto Educational Opportunity Fund

The organization administers a nutritional education program in certain schools throughout the school year. the organization also contributes to the toronto foundation for student success which administers similar programs in schools.

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6
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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7
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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8
The Toronto Public Library Foundation

The toronto public library foundation (tplf) raises funds that amplify and accelerate the exceptional work of toronto public library (tpl). donations have a resounding impact on those who rely on tpl's programs services and community…

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9
Autism Science Foundation Canada

Asf canada's mission is to fund breakthrough research to improve the lives of people with autism. asf canada provides funds to support university-based research in canada. asf canada board members have presented at national conferences and…

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10
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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11
Toronto Metropolitan University

The special mission of toronto metropolitan university is the advancement of applied knowledge and research to address societal needs and the provision of programs of study that provides a balance between theory and application that…

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12
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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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 Knox College. 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

70 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. 70 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
41/70
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 budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$2,175,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$1,329,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSTIY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$1,250,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetIvey Business School/The University of Western University — C$1,237,605 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$717,686 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — C$700,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetCAMH — C$505,224 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetQueen's University — C$450,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$376,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetToronto Rehab Foundation — C$287,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMS CANADA — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNH FOUNDATION N — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMH Foundation — C$166,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUpper Grand Learning Foundation — C$130,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetFOODSHARE — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$102,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE READING PARTNERSHIP — C$90,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$71,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENACTUS CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLAWRENCE PARK COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$56,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTED NORTH — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Toronto - Schools — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAYUP YOUTH BASKETBALL — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF TORONTO — C$45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No 41 (Burnaby) — C$40,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetOSU CHILDREN'S LIBRARY FUND — C$40,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE — C$36,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORKING FOR LEARNING — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$34,465 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSUEM — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMALARIA FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUSKOKA STEAMSHIP & DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BARBARA SCHLIFER COMMEMORATIVE CLINIC — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS E-MENTORSHIP INNOVATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetL'arche London — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GENERATIONAL EUITY — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION CANADA — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 McLean FoundationJewish Foundation of …Canada GivesThe J W McConnell Fam…The John C and Sally …The Catherine and Max…Fiera Capital Foundat…Tippet FoundationThe Henry White Kinne…BenefAction FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…
Toronto FoundationON15.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Canada Gives · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The John C and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Tippet Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster

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 72 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 869747493:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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