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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Stephen Ross and Mary O'Riordan Family Foundation

Donations to qualified donees

C$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$400
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$422k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$5,000
HELPING HOMELESS PETSC$1,000
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND PARISHC$500
SALVATION ARMY TORONTO & KINGSTONC$500
FARM RADIOC$400
FRIENDS OF CRP CDAC$350
ST PETER'S PRESYTERIAN CHURCHC$200
ST MARGARET CHURCH OF SCOTLANDC$200
DIABETES CANADAC$100
ORILLIA PUBLIC LIBRARYC$50
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$43k · 21 repeat orgsC$40k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
21

Total granted

C$43k
C$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • QU
    Queen's University
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$10k · revenue +27%
  • CH
    CENTRE HASTINGS SECONDARY SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$10k · revenue +194%
  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$7k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NG
    NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +27%
  • MM
    MASRSHALL MCLUHAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +37%

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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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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2
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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3
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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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
Toronto Botanical Garden

To enable Toronto Botanical Garden's mission vision and values: Mission Toronto Botanical Garden connects people and plants fostering sustainable communities and developing reciprocal relationships with nature through lifelong learning.

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6
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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7
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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8
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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9
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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10
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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11
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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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 Saint Elizabeth Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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

36 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. 36 of the 48 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
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 budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetQueen's University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE HASTINGS SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY TORONTO & KINGSTON — C$2,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSC CANADA — C$1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of C.R.P. — C$1,450 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND PARISH — C$1,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RADIO INTERNATIONAL — C$1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORTBONNE MINISTRIES — C$1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of King's College — C$950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMennonite Central Committee — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrent University Annual Fund — C$600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART CHURCH — C$500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSinai Health Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRDS CANADA — C$400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMathews House Hospice — C$250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER'S PRESYTERIAN CHURCH — C$200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetToronto Public Library Foundation — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ELIZABETH JOURNEY HOME HOSPICE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTV Ontario — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Wildlife Center — C$100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarthroots — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Canada — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRide for Refuge — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWEED AND AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTourette Canada — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORILLIA PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$50 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.

Jackman FoundationHydro One Employees' …Toronto FoundationOntario Power Generat…Ottawa Community Foun…United Way Simcoe Mus…Wcpd FoundationLink Charity Canada I…Canada GivesBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Aqueduct Foundation
Jackman FoundationON9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jackman Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Toronto Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · United Way Simcoe Muskoka · Wcpd Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 48 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 839147329:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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