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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation

THE THOR E AND NICOLE EATON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION provides financial support to other qualified donees.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$713k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$222k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$250k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$713k
C$15,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$712,500
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE VIMY FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATIONC$50,000
TILLSONBURG DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITALC$35,000
BOOST CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTREC$32,800
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULC$25,000
CROWS THEATREC$25,000
STRATFORD FESTIVALC$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE CANADAC$20,000
U OF TC$15,000
ISRAEL MUSEUM AND ARTS CANADAC$12,500
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$12,000
THE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTEC$10,000
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORSC$10,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.8M · 29 repeat orgsC$352k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
16

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+56%

Still filing today

97%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’23’24
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

  • SM
    ST MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +25%
  • TN
    The National Ballet of Canada
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$421k · revenue +14%
  • TR
    The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$365k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST. MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$36k
  • TM
    The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$35k

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
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
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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3
The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation

To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
The Toronto Symphony Foundation

The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.

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9
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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10
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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11
The Canadian Art Foundation
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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Crow's 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

39 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. 39 of the 49 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
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 budgetST MICHAELS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,208,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe National Ballet of Canada — C$420,530 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Royal Ontario Museum Foundation — C$365,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE VIMY FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetGARDINER MUSEUM — C$181,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOOST CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$116,800 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Toronto - Eaton Family Research Fund — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$54,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$39,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTILLSONBURG DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCROWS THEATRE — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPontification Institute of Mediaeval Studies — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH TORONTO SPORTS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE ORGANIZATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetISRAEL MUSEUM AND ARTS CANADA — C$12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCanadian Foundation for Aids Research — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAudain Art Museum Foundation — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAga Khan Museum — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS Childrens Village Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA IRELAND FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUREA FOUNDATION-MUNK DEBATES — C$3,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS E-MENTORSHIP (GEM) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Power Plant contemporaray Art Gallery — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL AUXILARY — C$1,000 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.

Toronto FoundationGerald Sheff & Shanit…Hal Jackman FoundationLa Fondation Emmanuel…Burgundy Legacy Found…The Murray Frum Found…Canada GivesThe Ira Gluskin and M…Weston Family Foundat…Aqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Nicola Wealth Private…
Toronto FoundationON12.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Murray Frum Foundation · Canada Gives · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving 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 49 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 892742529:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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