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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

The Toronto Star Children's Charities

The purpose of The Toronto Star Children’s Charities is to inspire hope joy and curiosity in kids through its initiatives such as the Santa Claus Fund and the Fresh Air Fund.

C$728k
Granted FY2024still arriving
182
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 182 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k176 grants · C$628k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$101k
C$3,640
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINARK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESC$28,690
JAYS CARE FOUNDATIONC$16,350
CAMP TANAMAKOON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$15,180
OUTWARD BOUND CANADAC$14,300
MOORELANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES (MOORELANDS KIDS)C$13,200
NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTOC$12,870
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF TORONTOC$9,720
UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CANADA - TORONTO BRANCHC$9,110
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MISSISSAUGAC$9,110
CNIBC$9,110
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$8,500
VARIETY VILLAGEC$8,200
VARIETY VILLAGEC$8,200
FRIENDS OF THE LEARNING DISABLED CAMP KIRKC$7,890
SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAULC$7,290
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 66% of grant dollars (C$2.3M). The 34% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 34% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 84 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

84 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
127

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$202k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • OB
    Outward Bound Canada Camp Program
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$70k · revenue +54%
  • JC
    Jays Care Foundation - Rookie League Camp
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$66k · revenue +66%
  • MC
    Moorelands Community Services Camp Program
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$63k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • KO
    Kinark Outdoor Centre
    one grant, 2023 · C$47k
  • LI
    LEAP Into Literacy Summer Camp
    one grant, 2023 · C$40k
  • CS
    Camp SOKIL & Camp Soniashnyk
    one grant, 2023 · C$32k

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
Rainbow Programs for Children

Offers an eight week inclusive summer day camp program for children 4-14. provides a one to one program for campers with special needs an leader-in-training program for youth a teen camp program for youth with special needs and a…

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2
The Children's Aid Foundation of York Region

Children's camps york region children's aid society special needs program

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3
Kids in Camp

Kids in camp provides financial assistance to make it possible for children from low-income homes or with special health or other special needs to attend an ontario camps association camp. participating camps support the initiative by…

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4
Tim Horton Children's Foundation Inc.

The Tim Horton Children's Foundation is committed to empowering youth from low-income households through Tim Horton camp experiences. Camp experiences are intentionally designed to foster the strengths within youth and provide…

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5
Camp Mcgovern

Providing underprivileged children with the opportunity to go to camp. Participants must be involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters programs around Ontario or be associated with local United Way member agencies.

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6
Blue Lake Forest Education Society

Environmental education social and leadership development for youth school programs summer camp programs. camp for kids with exceptional needs.

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7
Little Blue Schoolhouse Support Services

LBS Support Services provides summer camp services to teens and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related developmental delays.

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8
Summer Program for Special Children

The summer program for special children operates a day camp for 5 weeks over the summer for young adults ages 9-21 with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. the purpose of the camp is to provide respite for parents and caregivers…

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9
Reach for the Rainbow Ontario

Reach for the rainbow (REACH) is a regional navigation system and accessibility partner to 36 programs and 70 sites in Ontario. We help our program delivery partners remove physical barriers to participants' inclusion in recreational…

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10
Ryde Lake Camp

Provide a summer camp experience for girls 9 to 15 years of age. provide leadership development camp for girls 16 years of age. Provide family camp. Our programs focus on: character development leadership development foster respect and…

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11
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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12
Camp Koolaree

Summer camps for all ages.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Child and Family Services of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Geneva Centre for Autism Foundation. 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

124 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. 124 of the 244 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/124
Grantees still filing
75/124
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKinark Outdoor Centre Autism Camp — C$75,940 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOutward Bound Canada Camp Program — C$69,850 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJays Care Foundation - Rookie League Camp — C$66,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMoorelands Community Services Camp Program — C$63,200 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Salvation Army Ontario Camping Ministry — C$49,540 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetNative Child & Family Services of Toronto (day camp in '20) — C$47,570 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of West Scarborough — C$46,920 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoundless Adventures Association Camp Program — C$43,290 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWillowgrove Day Camp (Glenbrook) — C$41,720 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBob Rumball Camp of the Deaf — C$41,290 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetMaple Leaf: Camp Tanamakoon Charitable Foundations — C$40,180 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEast Scarborough Boys' & Girls' Club — C$38,990 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Marygrove/Ozanam - The Society of St. Vincent de Paul — C$38,580 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Towhee - Child Development Institute — C$37,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club Toronto Kiwanis — C$37,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetProject C.A.N.O.E. — C$37,290 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetToronto CAS Centralized Family Service Camp (day camp '20) — C$36,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Greater Toronto Camp Program — C$36,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Neighborhood Group Camp Program — C$35,670 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVariety Camps Variety Village — C$33,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCampfire Circle - Rainbow Lake and Muskoka — C$32,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDurham Children's Aid Society Camp Program — C$31,270 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Kawartha — C$30,670 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEveryMind Mental Health Services Camp Program — C$30,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRalph Thornton Community Centre - Riverdale Adventure Centre — C$26,070 over 3y, 42% of budgetThe Yonge Street Mission - Camp Program — C$26,070 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scott Mission Camp Program — C$26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Agudah — C$25,720 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTrails Youth Inititatives — C$25,590 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLubavitch Day Camp — C$25,070 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBelwood Lodge & Camp — C$24,760 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$24,280 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe WoodGreen Foundation - Camp Program — C$24,070 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlbion Neighbourhood Services Camp Program - BGS Albion Club — C$23,460 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDixon Hall Neighborhood Services Camp Program — C$23,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetToronto City Mission Camp Program — C$23,460 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCamp Couchiching — C$23,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGeneva Centre Summer Day Camp — C$22,880 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDovercourt Boys and Girls Clubhouse — C$22,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetScadding Court Community Centre Inc. Camp Program — C$21,640 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Assisting Youth Camp Program — C$21,640 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEaster Seals Ontario — C$21,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Ontario-Kids Camp — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Learning Disabled - Camp Kirk — C$20,890 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWest Neighbourhood House Camp Program (St. Christopher) — C$20,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChai Lifeline Canda - Camp Lifeline — C$20,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Wanakita Hemophilia Ontario — C$20,400 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetArthritis Society - Ontario-Summer Camp — C$19,750 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.

Kids Up Front Foundat…Chum Charitable Found…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Catherine and Max…The George Lunan Foun…Toronto FoundationJays Care FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…Tippet FoundationHarry E Foster Charit…Rexall Care NetworkThe Henry White Kinne…
Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto)ON38.2× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Chum Charitable Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Jays Care Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Tippet Foundation · Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation · Rexall Care Network · 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 244 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119267425:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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