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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

William Birchall Foundation

Gifts to qualified donees

C$678k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$230k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$263k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$385k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARDC$230,000
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITYC$100,000
THE CANADIAN LYFORD CAY FOUNDATIONC$55,000
ROYAL OAKC$38,000
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$25,000
LUPUS CANADAC$25,000
HAMILTON HEALTH SERVICEC$25,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$25,000
BROCK UNIVERSITYC$25,000
LYFORD CAY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLC$20,136
NORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANKC$15,000
DE LASALLE COLLEGEC$15,000
THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTREC$10,000
THE REDEEMERC$10,000
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAHC$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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.8M · 26 repeat orgsC$938k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

C$6.8M
C$878k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k 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

  • TC
    THE CANADIAN LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.4M · revenue +206% · 92% of their budget
  • RC
    RYSERON COMMERCE SOCIETY - RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$1.7M · revenue +47%
  • WL
    WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$500k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PETER AND MELANIE MUNK CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$500k · revenue +302%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$125k · revenue +82%
  • O
    OCAD
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +16%

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
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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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 Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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5
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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6
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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7
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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8
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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9
Ocad University Foundation
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10
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

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

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropic Foundations Canada/Fondations Philanthropiques Canada and the most unlike its peers is De La Salle College 'Oaklands'. 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

43 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. 43 of the 44 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CANADIAN LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION — C$2,428,980 over 8y, 92% of budgetRYSERON COMMERCE SOCIETY - RYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$1,660,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$500,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PETER AND MELANIE MUNK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD — C$396,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDE LASALLE COLLEGE — C$170,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKNIGHTS TABLE — C$110,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$105,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE STOP — C$105,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYFORD CAY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — C$67,036 over 5y, 100% of budgetOCAD — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER CHIRLDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$49,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATIONS — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROYAL OAK — C$43,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE REDEEMER — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW CIRCLES CLOTHING CONNECTIONS COMMUNITY — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAGO FOUNDATIPN — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS AND THE CANADA-UKRAIN — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGILLIAN'S PLACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVIS — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG ONES BREAKING BARRIERS — C$15,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKDALE COMMUNITY FOODBANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCHURCH OF THE MESSIAH — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION CANADA — C$9,271 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION IN CANADA — C$1,000 over 2y, 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.

Niagara Community Fou…Canada GivesThe Ontario Paper Tho…United Way NiagaraToronto FoundationWise Guys Charity FundLink Charity Canada I…Moez & Marissa Kassam…Daily Bread Food BankCharities Aid Foundat…Ontario Power Generat…Wcpd Foundation
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de NiagaraON9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Canada Gives · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · United Way Niagara · Toronto Foundation · Wise Guys Charity Fund · Link Charity Canada Inc · Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation · Daily Bread Food Bank · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Wcpd 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 44 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 842386310:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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