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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Scott Griffin Foundation

To receive and maintain funds in support of qualified donees with an emphasis on organizations whose charitable objectives include the promotion of arts and education and the environment.

C$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$45k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$125k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANCTUARYC$35,000
LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADAC$25,000
GRIFFIN TRUST FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRYC$15,000
ROSEBUD LEGACY SOCIETYC$10,000
SCHEVCHENKO FOUNDATIONC$10,000
THE COAL MINE THEATREC$10,000
ART CANADA INSTITUTEC$10,000
JACK.ORGC$10,000
TARRAGON THEATREC$5,000
THE LIGHTHOUSE PROGRAM FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENC$5,000
PLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP MONTREAL INC.C$5,000
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUMC$5,000
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH AND MISSIONSC$5,000
CROWS THEATREC$5,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$5,000
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$760k · 18 repeat orgsC$226k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

C$760k
C$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$40k 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

  • S
    SANCTUARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$115k · revenue +17%
  • LR
    LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$115k · revenue +74%
  • AC
    ART CANADA INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$92k · revenue +486%

Funded once

  • PI
    PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY
    one grant, 2021 · C$27k · revenue -15%
  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue -15%
  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST NORTHER IRELAND
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k

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
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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2
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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3
The Giller Foundation

The foundation awards annual cash prizes to canadian writers for literary excellence.

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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
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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6
The Factory Theatre Lab

Develop produce and present canadian plays thereby supporting and nourishing the canadian theatre scene playwrights and actors with a focus on supporting artists from diverse communities - provide artists support through development…

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7
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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8
Ocad University Foundation
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9
National Media Awards Foundation

A charitable foundation the nmaf's mandate is to recognize and promote excellence in content creation of canadian print and digital publications through an annual program of awards and national publicity efforts.

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10
Ocad U Co Foundation

To raise funds towards the mission of ocad university

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11
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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12
Theatrefront Inc.

1) Development of new plays 2) Touring in Canada 3) Education programs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and the most unlike its peers is The Coal Mine Theatre. 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

42 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. 42 of the 45 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
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 budgetSANCTUARY — C$115,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA — C$115,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE — C$92,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetPOETRY IN VOICE — C$81,625 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$56,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNDG FOOD DEPOT — C$35,100 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPERIMETER INSTITUTE — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITY FIRST — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBISHOP'S UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY — C$27,050 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP MONTREAL INC. — C$20,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COAL MINE THEATRE — C$20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGRIFFIN TRUST FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY — C$16,775 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCROWS THEATRE — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD FOOT DELIVERY — C$13,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 39 — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHEVCHENKO FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEARSON COLLEGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSEBUD LEGACY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE MOSAIC INSTITUTE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOTTAWA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN WAR MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICAN IN CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLCANO — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMACEWAN UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKDALE QUEEN WEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH AND MISSIONS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK AND LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARRAGON THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRASER HICKSON INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBEST BUDDIES CANADA — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AL PURDY A-FRAME TRUST — C$3,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL CENTRE TRUST ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The McLean FoundationToronto FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…The J W McConnell Fam…Canada GivesThe Chawkers foundati…Jewish Foundation of …The Azrieli Foundatio…The George Cedric Met…The Murray Frum Found…Clench House Foundati…Aqueduct Foundation
The McLean FoundationON13.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Canada Gives · The Chawkers foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Murray Frum Foundation · Clench House Foundation · Aqueduct 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 45 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 856500038:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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