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The Shen Family Charitable Foundation

THE SHEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has been established for the purposes of receiving and maintaining a fund or funds to be applied for the benefit of other charities as set out in the trust deed.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$415k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$150k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$517k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$415k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$415,000
COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONSC$181,331
TIFFC$150,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$136,000
SHOREFAST FOUNDATIONC$50,000
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ARTC$30,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTOC$25,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TORONOTC$25,000
POWER PLANTC$25,000
MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ARTC$20,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADAC$15,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$10,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHC$2,000
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 — 84% of grant dollars (C$6.0M). The 16% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 16% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$764k · 6 grants

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.9M · 24 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
30

Total granted

C$5.9M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+25%

Still filing today

83%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$161k 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

  • TG
    Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +149%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +3%
  • T
    TIFF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$676k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARCHITECTUTAL CONSERVATORY OF ONTARIOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$300k · revenue +69% · 79% of their budget
  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$121k
  • HT
    HOPES TOWN COMMUNITY VENTURESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +139%

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.

1
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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2
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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3
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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4
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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5
The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation

To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario

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6
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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7
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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8
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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9
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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10
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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11
Ocad University Foundation
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12
The Hnatyshyn Foundation - La Fondation Hnatyshyn

The foundation's objectives are to promote excellence in the arts in canada by awarding study grants prizes and residencies to emerging developing and mid-career artists and curators. the foundation provided program grants and awards…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Gallery of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is David Goodman Youth Community Trust. 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

48 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. 48 of the 56 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
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 budgetToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — C$1,500,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$1,157,177 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTIFF — C$675,511 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$404,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARCHITECTUTAL CONSERVATORY OF ONTARIO — C$300,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$136,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHOREFAST FOUNDATION — C$119,650 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL GALERY OF CANADA — C$115,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetROM FOUNDATION — C$100,260 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPES TOWN COMMUNITY VENTURES — C$100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCREEMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$90,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$65,065 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$60,580 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL CANADIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOC. — C$56,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVATORY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$36,687 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TORONOT — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLUMINATO — C$34,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEXT Canada — C$27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMASSEY HALL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE ART CANADA INSTITUTE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTATE CANADA FOUNDATION — C$19,479 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SCUGOG — C$15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE GLENN GOULD FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMERCER UNION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJazz FM91 — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH — C$9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN ART — C$9,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vimy Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARRAGON THEATRE — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN MUSEUM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$500 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.

Hal Jackman FoundationThe Michael Young Fam…Toronto FoundationLa Fondation Emmanuel…Lynwood Family Founda…The Ouellette Family …The Ira Gluskin and M…The McLean FoundationPartners in ArtThe Kololian Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationCidel Foundation
Hal Jackman FoundationON21.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hal Jackman Foundation · The Michael Young Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Lynwood Family Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun · The McLean Foundation · Partners in Art · The Kololian Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Cidel 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 56 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 826635534:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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