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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

The Upside Foundation of Canada

Fundraising and qualified disbursements to qualified donees.

C$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$18,116
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$633k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLUB DES PETITS DÉJEUNERS DU CANADA - BREAKFAST CLUB OF CANC$18,116
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$2.7M · 5 repeat orgsC$278k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
22

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION OFGREATER TORONTO
    2× · 2019–2021 · C$1.7M · revenue +87%
  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$884k · revenue +54%
  • TL
    THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$16k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SC
    SICKKIDS CHARITABLE GIVING FUND
    one grant, 2018 · C$182k · revenue +2%
  • WF
    WEALTHSIMPLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k · revenue +44%
  • TP
    The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k · revenue +59%

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
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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3
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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4
Canadian Nutrition Society Food for Health Foundation
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5
Canadian Health Foundation
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Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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7
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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8
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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9
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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10
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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11
CityFund Foundation

The Foundation provides funds to qualified donees to further its charitable interests. Examples include: City of Toronto City of Burlington City of Brampton.

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12
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anishnawbe Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oceans Research and Conservation Association - Orca. 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

26 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. 26 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
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 budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OFGREATER TORONTO — C$1,744,082 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$883,515 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSICKKIDS CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — C$182,491 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEALTHSIMPLE FOUNDATION — C$29,339 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCLUB DES PETITS DÉJEUNERS DU CANADA - BREAKFAST CLUB OF CAN — C$21,308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$15,516 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARKHAVEN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS COMMITTEE OF NORTH BAY AND AREA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOMES FIRST SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANISHWAWBNE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCEANS RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$4,797 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$4,797 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT F — C$3,984 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$2,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION OLO — C$1,085 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INSTITUTE — C$984 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING NEIGHBOURHOODS FOUNDATION — C$984 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODSHARE TORONTO — C$984 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeautiful World Canada Foundation — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$22 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…Private Giving Founda…Makeway FoundationAqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationAbundance CanadaCentraide Du Grand Mo…United Way East Ontar…BenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Abundance Canada · Centraide Du Grand Montréal · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · BenefAction Foundation · 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 27 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 845283241:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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