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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Ward Family Foundation

Donations to various charitable organizations within ontario

C$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$70k
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$130k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTERC$70,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$60,000
MOORELAND KIDSC$40,000
WATER FIRSTC$25,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHALC$15,000
THE REDWOODC$10,000
B'NAI BRITH CANADAC$5,000
PARKINSON CANADAC$5,000
STEP STONES FOR YOUTHC$2,500
WE ARE YOUNGC$1,725
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 15 repeat orgsC$159k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$94k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$277k · revenue +64%
  • YW
    YOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$195k · revenue +81%
  • MK
    MOORELAND KIDS
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$195k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DB
    DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k
  • WW
    Wounded Warriors Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +29%
  • TH
    TORONTO HUMAN SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +32%

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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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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2
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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3
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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4
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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6
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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7
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. The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund provides grants to camp…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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9
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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10
Ywca Toronto

YWCA works to transform the lives of women girls and gender diverse people who face systemic violence discrimination and poverty in Toronto by operating: -Housing programs including transitional housing for women and children experiencing…

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11
Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canada

Petsmart charities of canada envisions a world where communities unite in support of pets together with their families. founded in 1999 the organization's mission is to make the world a better place by investing in community partners that…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daily Bread Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is We Are Young Association. 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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
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 budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$276,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$195,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMOORELAND KIDS — C$195,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INCORPORATED — C$165,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$110,300 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE YORK SCHOOL — C$106,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SERVICE DOGS — C$47,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warriors Canada — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREDEMPTION PAWS — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE REDWOOD — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO HUMAN SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomes First — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI BRITH CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP STONES FOR YOUTH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE YOUNG — C$1,725 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FoundationCanada GivesAqueduct FoundationThe McLean FoundationJewish Foundation of …BenefAction FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…TD Securities Underwr…The George Lunan Foun…The Catherine and Max…Charities Aid Foundat…Private Giving Founda…
Toronto FoundationON11× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · BenefAction Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund · The George Lunan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · 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 26 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 733527493:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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