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Woodbridge, ON · Private foundation

The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation

The foundation had distributed funds to religious charitable and educational organizations.

C$284k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k36 grants · C$51k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$203k
C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$102,700
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION PLEDGE TOWARDS $1 000 000 PLEDGE MADC$100,000
THE HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION CLASS OF 2024 GRAD GIFC$10,000
SHARELIFE ANNUAL DONATION AS REQUESTED BY EDWARD SORBARAC$10,000
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DONATION - 1ST YEAR OF 5 YEAC$10,000
THE ROTARY CLUB OF WILLOWDALE PURCHASE OF 170 ROTARY HAMSC$5,100
CANADIAN CHARITY PARTNERS HELP FOR VICTIMS OF KIBBUTZ NIT OZC$5,000
CHAI LIFELINE CANADA HARMONY AND HOPEC$5,000
HUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DONATION SILOC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO IN HONOUR OF DR ROSE PATTENC$5,000
EMUNAH CANADA EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IC$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS DONATC$2,500
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,200
YOUTH ASSISTING YOUTH DONATION CHARIT # 119307478RR0001C$2,000
JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY DONATIONC$2,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.0M · 59 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
97

Total granted

C$8.0M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+16%

Still filing today

98%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • MH
    MACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION - LUCIANO D'ANGELO
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$5.0M · revenue +24%
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$845k · revenue +83%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$618k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMPSON HALL
    one grant, 2022 · C$600k · revenue -27%
  • TR
    TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$237k · revenue +38%
  • RA
    RJ AND DIANE PETERSON KEEWATIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue -97% · 79% of their budget

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
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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2
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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3
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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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
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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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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7
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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8
Women's College Hospital Foundation

Women's college hospital foundation raises funds to support the building equipment research and education needs of women's college hospital ontario's first and only independent academic ambulatory care hospital with a primary focus on…

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9
Scarborough Health Network Foundation

Situated in one of the most diverse communities in the world Scarborough Health Network Foundation (SHN Foundation) raises funds for state of the art medical equipment and building projects for Scarborough Health Network and its associated…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bnos Bais Yaakov High 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

160 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. 160 of the 174 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/160
Grantees still filing
106/160
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 budgetMACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION - LUCIANO D'ANGELO — C$5,008,096 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$844,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$618,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMPSON HALL — C$600,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN — C$357,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$237,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$157,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME COLLECTIVE — C$143,500 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetArchdiocese of Toronto Family of Faith — C$107,400 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$106,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRJ AND DIANE PETERSON KEEWATIN FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetLUMINATO GRP — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetONTARIO TECH UNIVERSITY — C$82,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION - JACK RABINWITCH READING — C$76,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVilla Charities Foundation — C$72,156 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetShare Life Corporation — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INSPIRE 2018 — C$40,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetL'Arche Canada Foundation Servant Leadership Program — C$28,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE — C$26,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentre for Urban Research & Land Development — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$25,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO PARKS AND TREES FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF WILLOWDALE — C$24,275 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA CLAUSE PARADE — C$19,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF WILLOWDALE PURCHASE OF 170 ROTARY HAMS — C$15,200 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetST. CLARE'S MULTIFAITH HOUSING SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$14,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$11,325 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY TORONTO HEALTH VARE FOR CITY OF TORONTO — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION CLASS OF 2024 GRAD GIF — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSALIE HALL — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION DES YMCA DU QUEBEC — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETA Vaughan — C$7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE - NATIONAL TEXTING SERVICES FOR YOUTH — C$6,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP CUCUMBER — C$6,500 over 3y, 88% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO IN HONOUR OF DR ROSE PATTEN — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANNOCKBURN FOUNDATION — C$6,250 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$6,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$6,090 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE CIRCUS — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWATER AMBASSADORS CANADA - CLEAN WATER IN SOUTH AMERICA — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetERINOAKIDS CENTRE FOR TREATMENT AND DEVELOPMENT — C$6,000 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.

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 FoundationJackman FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Jewish Foundation of …York Catholic Distric…Hydro One Employees' …Ontario Power Generat…The William and Nona …Burgundy Legacy Found…Conam Charitable Foun…The Kpmg Foundation/L…The Sixty Three Found…
Toronto FoundationON17.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · York Catholic District School Board · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · The Sixty Three 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 174 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 2024-05-31, 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 119253300:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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