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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Sonor Foundation

Evaluation of charities as possible donees.

C$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$205k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$284k
  • C$50k–250k21 grants · C$2.3M
C$31,137
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EGALE CANADAC$205,000
CANADA CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATIONC$200,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$200,000
JUSTICETRANSC$153,500
INTERWOVEN CONNECTIONSC$114,433
FOOD ALLERGY CANADAC$110,000
ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$110,000
AGIR MONTREALC$110,000
REST CENTRESC$101,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN CANADAC$100,411
SPENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONC$100,000
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ANDC$100,000
INDUS COMMUNITY SERVICESC$100,000
IMAGINE CANADAC$100,000
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 32 repeat orgsC$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
18

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+4%

Still filing today

94%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AND BLACK
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$400k · revenue +8%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$350k · revenue +12%
  • AL
    ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$320k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k · revenue +5%
  • AU
    ACADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k · revenue +7%
  • CT
    CENTRAL TORONTO YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · C$124k · revenue +4%

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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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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2
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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3
Mental Health Commission of Canada / Commission de la santé mentale du Canada

The mental health commission of canada (mhcc) shines a light on mental health and works to improve the lives of people who experience mental health problems and illnesses (as well as their families and caregivers). mhcc convenes…

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4
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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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
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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7
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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8
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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9
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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10
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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11
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien De Politiques Alternatives

1. Social scientific research about economic social and environmental public policy issues of relevance to Canadian society. 2. Analysis of and commentary about public policy decisions and proposals. 3. Educational activities including…

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12
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights/Action Canada Pour La SantÉ Et Les Droits Sexuels and the most unlike its peers is St. Mildred's-Lightbourn 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

77 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. 77 of the 81 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
37/77
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AND BLACK — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — C$350,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES (ALS) — C$320,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLEAP:The Centre for Social Impact — C$302,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetAGINCOURT COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC. — C$300,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSAAAC AUTISM CENTRE — C$300,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSTEPHSTONE FOR YOUTH — C$258,936 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$240,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSANCTUARY — C$235,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFUTURE POSSIBILITY FOR KIDS — C$234,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetINDUS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$221,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY CANADA — C$220,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$210,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEGALE CANADA — C$205,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCANADA CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY (DORSET PARK ENGLISH CIRCLE FOR WOMEN) — C$193,373 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDUS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$185,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE BLOOMS — C$185,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE SHOE PROJECT — C$150,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetCENTRAL TORONTO YOUTH SERVICES — C$123,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTAMARACK INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT — C$120,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERWOVEN CONNECTIONS — C$114,433 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGIR MONTREAL — C$110,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREST CENTRES — C$101,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA — C$100,411 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN AID — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSCREEN COLONS CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetPARENTS SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH — C$80,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE — C$80,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPROJECT 10 — C$80,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetDURHAM YOUTH SERVICES — C$77,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE YORK SCHOOL — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$64,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNew Circles — C$60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPEN CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetELI'S PLACE RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMPSON HALL — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP — C$40,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetST. MILDRED'S -LIGHTBOURN SCHOOL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…The Peter Gilgan Foun…TD Securities Underwr…Fiera Capital Foundat…Jewish Foundation of …Makeway FoundationCanada GivesKids Up Front Foundat…Cidel FoundationOttawa Community Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…
Toronto FoundationON17.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Makeway Foundation · Canada Gives · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Cidel Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 81 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 2024-10-31, 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 888999042:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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