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North York, ON · Private foundation

The S E Lam Family Foundation

It is the intention of the s.e.

C$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$7k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$112k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MON SHEONG FOUNDATIONC$56,000
ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$55,500
NANKINDC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,000
MACKENZIE HEALTHC$1,000
BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCYC$400
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$688k · 11 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

C$688k
C$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • SJ
    ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$344k · revenue +29%
  • TF
    TFS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · C$9k · revenue +109%
  • BH
    BRANKSOME HALL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · C$7k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • NY
    NORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +108%
  • PC
    PHILPOTT CHILDREN'S TENNIS
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +18%
  • UC
    Upper Canada Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +37%

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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7
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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8
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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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
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
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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12
Uts Foundation

Developing and maintaining funds to assist the students of university of toronto schools by providing scholarships fellowships bursaries and financial assistance.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North York General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
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 budgetST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$343,900 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMON SHEONG FOUNDATION — C$315,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTFS FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILPOTT CHILDREN'S TENNIS — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNANKIND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUpper Canada College — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneral Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada — C$2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S YORK MILLS CHURCH — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEdmonton Chinese United Church — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Christopher's Aglican Church — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkylark Children Youth and Families — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACKENZIE HEALTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScarborough & Rouge Hospital Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Leacock Foundation for Children — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$300 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 FoundationGiftpact Foundation I…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…The Sixty Three Found…Canada GivesKids Up Front Foundat…Private Giving Founda…The McLean FoundationWcpd FoundationLink Charity Canada I…
Toronto FoundationON10.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Sixty Three Foundation · Canada Gives · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Private Giving Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc

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 32 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 advancing education.

Source object 871077103:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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