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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Slaight Family Foundation

The Foundation supports health institutions social services culture and arts.

C$42M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$6.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$242k
  • C$50k–250k27 grants · C$2.7M
  • C$250k+41 grants · C$39M
C$200,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$274M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$6,200,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTOC$3,964,873
SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTREC$2,318,334
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$2,277,084
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$1,500,000
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETYC$1,360,417
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTHC$1,286,671
FOOD BANKS CANADAC$1,200,000
ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,054,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$1,018,235
SECOND HARVEST CANADAC$1,000,000
WOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADAC$1,000,000
YWCA CANADAC$1,000,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$800,000
HUMBER RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$800,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$260M
British Columbia
C$4.0M
Quebec
C$2.7M
New Brunswick
C$1.4M
Nova Scotia
C$1.2M
Alberta
C$1.2M
Manitoba
C$120k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$3k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$260M · 154 repeat orgsC$10M 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 +15% for the ones you funded once.

154 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
72

Total granted

C$260M
C$9.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M 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

  • PM
    PRINCESS MARAGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$22M · revenue +59%
  • UF
    UHN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$12M · revenue +83%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$9.9M · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.1M
  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$930k
  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$750k · revenue -46%

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
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
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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3
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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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
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Artscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kensington Market Jazz Festival. 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

223 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. 223 of the 235 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.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
215/223
Grantees still filing
156/223
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPRINCESS MARAGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$22,065,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$17,575,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$11,712,409 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALL — C$10,000,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$9,933,334 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$9,288,334 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,154,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$7,767,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH-CAMH — C$6,613,882 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNISON BENEVOLENT FUND — C$5,790,000 over 5y, 93% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$5,775,753 over 7y, 13% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$5,500,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE CANADA — C$5,300,000 over 8y, 60% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$5,000,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST CANADA — C$4,090,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$3,800,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$3,600,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — C$3,441,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$3,155,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$3,000,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,803,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA — C$2,705,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRight To Play — C$2,587,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,365,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,350,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetMAGICANA — C$2,279,653 over 8y, 93% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN — C$2,250,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetEGALE CANADA — C$2,170,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCROW'S THEATRE — C$2,150,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$2,133,334 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$2,085,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$2,043,334 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetSCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADA — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$1,950,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY — C$1,910,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$1,910,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH — C$1,900,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetECOLE NATIONALE DE THEATRE DU CANADA — C$1,650,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetWe Charity/Free the Children — C$1,565,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$1,550,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,550,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCanadian Film Centre — C$1,515,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetBREAKFAS CLUB CANADA — C$1,500,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$1,457,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetONTARIO WATER CENTRE — C$1,450,000 over 8y, 8.4% 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.

  • Who funds PRINCESS MARAGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds UHN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL & ROY THOMSON HALL ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH-CAMH ↗
  • Who funds UNISON BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CAMP OOCHIGEAS ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS HELP PHONE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANKS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Right To Play ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAGICANA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EGALE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CROW'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds JACK.ORG ↗
  • Who funds SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds WAR CHILD CANADA ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds ECOLE NATIONALE DE THEATRE DU CANADA ↗

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 George Cedric Met…The Catherine and Max…Jackman FoundationKingfisher FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…La Fondation Emmanuel…The McLean FoundationToronto FoundationHal Jackman FoundationAubrey & Marla Dan Fo…Jewish Foundation of …The Henry White Kinne…
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON28.8× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · The McLean Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Henry White Kinnear 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 235 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 2024-07-31, 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 856831227:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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