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Caledon, ON · Private foundation

Airlie Foundation

Primary focus of Airlie Foundation has been to support canadian charities and institutions in the healthcare education research and wildlife conservation fields.

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$60k
  • C$10k–50k41 grants · C$695k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.3M
C$15,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UHN - SURGICAL TOWER CAMPAIGNC$1,000,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATIONC$300,000
MAYO CLINICC$200,000
PRINCESS MARGARET FOUNDATIONC$150,000
THE BENTWAY CONSERVANCYC$125,000
THE FRASER INSTITUTEC$125,000
MSF-DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$100,000
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$79,000
HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONC$75,000
DIABETES CANADAC$50,000
PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UHN - DONALD K. JOHNSON EYE CENTRE #579017750866C$50,000
TORONTO FOUNDATION: HIGH PERFORMANCE FUNDC$50,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$10M · 81 repeat orgsC$370k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
16

Total granted

C$10M
C$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+6%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$70k 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

  • US
    UHN - SURGICAL TOWER CAMPAIGN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +83%
  • BL
    BIG LIFE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$765k · revenue ×17 · 30% of their budget
  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$435k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TT
    TUFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$85k · revenue +81% · 37% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$74k
  • HH
    Headwaters Health Care Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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2
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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3
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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4
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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5
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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6
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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7
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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8
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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9
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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10
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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11
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The United Way of Peel Region. 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

81 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. 81 of the 102 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
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 budgetUHN - SURGICAL TOWER CAMPAIGN — C$1,400,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION — C$765,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$435,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$395,945 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$360,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$285,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$275,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEADWATERS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$260,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY TRANSITION PLACE — C$235,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetMSF-DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$230,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAY TO EDUCATE CANADA — C$225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION: HIGH PERFORMANCE FUND — C$225,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPERIMETER INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WIDLIFE FUND — C$195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$190,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$180,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$155,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHDALE TREATMENT CENTRES — C$140,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetUNITED WAY PEEL RGION — C$130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP AWAKENING — C$130,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCALEDON COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$115,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBETHELL HOUSE FOUNDATION CALEDON — C$105,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCANADIAN FILM CENTRE — C$100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTUFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH — C$85,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA — C$75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HAVEN RIDING CENTRE — C$70,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrans Canada Trail Foundation — C$60,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANKS CANADA — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTR FOUNDATION — C$57,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS SUCCESS — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY LAND TRUST — C$52,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA - UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST MARY'S HOME — C$50,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MASSAWIPPI — C$45,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetOJIBWAY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$44,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetGeorgian Bay Forever — C$40,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFARM RADIO INTERNATIONAL — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOVC PET TRUST — C$37,500 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds UHN - SURGICAL TOWER CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SICK KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FRASER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CAMH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY TRANSITION PLACE ↗
  • Who funds MSF-DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO EDUCATE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO FOUNDATION: HIGH PERFORMANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WIDLIFE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHDALE TREATMENT CENTRES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY PEEL RGION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP AWAKENING ↗
  • Who funds CALEDON COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BETHELL HOUSE FOUNDATION CALEDON ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FILM CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds TUFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN RIDING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trans Canada Trail Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANKS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS SUCCESS ↗

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 FoundationJackman FoundationThe McLean FoundationCanada GivesF. K. Morrow Foundati…Wcpd FoundationBenefAction FoundationThe Langar FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…The Norman & Margaret…Aqueduct FoundationThe Peel District Sch…
Toronto FoundationON14.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Canada Gives · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · The Langar Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Peel District School Board

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 102 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 821443645:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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