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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

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.

C$121M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$120M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$153k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$520k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$121M
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University Health NetworkC$120,249,196
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$515,518
VILLA CHARITIES FOUNDATIONC$215,316
SINAI HEALTHC$110,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$75,000
BEIT HALOCHEM CANADAC$70,000
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BIRDS CANADAC$35,000
UNITED WAY OF TORONTOC$25,000
HOPE AIRC$20,000
CAMINO WELLBEING (CARIZON FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES)C$20,000
ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICALC$12,500
SPECTRUM WATERLOOC$10,000
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGEC$10,000
HISTORICA CANADAC$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$813M · 30 repeat orgsC$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

C$813M
C$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+19%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$255k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$790M · revenue +51%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$12M · revenue +59%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$5.0M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2020 · C$808k
  • TC
    TECHNION CANADA
    one grant, 2018 · C$700k · revenue -14%
  • MJ
    Michael J. Fox Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$114k · revenue +233%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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3
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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4
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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5
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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7
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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8
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…

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9
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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10
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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11
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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12
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation; the most unlike its peers is My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
34/53
Grew since first funded

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK: C$789,834,614 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION: C$11,523,977 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: C$4,982,737 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVILLA CHARITIES: C$2,342,290 over 8y, 76% of budgetHospital for Sick Children: C$1,035,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION: C$947,060 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTECHNION CANADA: C$700,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJapanese Canadian Centre: C$341,607 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION: C$322,889 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY: C$306,058 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto: C$300,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION: C$225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: C$201,970 over 2y, 40% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO: C$125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TORONTO FOUNDATION: C$122,512 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMichael J. Fox Foundation: C$113,796 over 1y, 19% of budgetSINAI HEALTH: C$110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION: C$110,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTORONTO REHAB INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: C$94,716 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMount Sinai Hospital: C$90,480 over 1y, 11% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION: C$82,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA: C$70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation: C$50,139 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL: C$50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL & MARINE FOUNDATION: C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITY HEALTH TORONTO: C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AIR: C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation: C$40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICA CANADA: C$37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIRDS CANADA: C$35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALVATION ARMY: C$30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: C$25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE: C$25,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCAMINO WELLBEING (CARIZON FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES): C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARACHUTE LEADERS: C$20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION: C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY MINISTRIES: C$20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDRAVET.CA: C$20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetREGIMENTAL ADVISORY: C$20,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetQueen's University: C$15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL: C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN, MEAFOR REFUGEE WELCOME GROUP: C$10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSPECTRUM WATERLOO: C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTILLSONBURG DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Friends of Hebrew University: C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOME HORIZON: C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Private Giving Founda…Jackman FoundationAqueduct FoundationToronto FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Burgundy Legacy Found…Jewish Foundation of …BenefAction FoundationWeston Family Foundat…The Catherine and Fre…Canada GivesThe Burton Charitable…
Private Giving FoundationON12.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Private Giving Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · BenefAction Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation · Canada Gives · The Burton Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, 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 123864068:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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