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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation

Donations are paid to charities to support research and where apptopriate activities in the health and ecological/environmental fields in canada.

C$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$130k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$30,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UXBRIDGE COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRENC$30,000
GREEN DURHAM ASSOCIATION INC.C$30,000
CAMH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$15,000
PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONC$15,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADAC$15,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$767k · 13 repeat orgsC$98k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

C$767k
C$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$185k · revenue +38%
  • SF
    SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$110k · revenue +56%
  • UC
    UXBRIDGE COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$98k · revenue +428%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +4%
  • BC
    Brain Canada Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue -28%
  • DM
    DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue +140%

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
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
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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3
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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4
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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5
Canadians for Leading Edge Alzheimer Research Foundation

Canadians for leading edge alzheimer research foundation facilitates research into the causes prevention and treatment of alzheimer's disease and related dementias by making grants to various peer reviewed research projects.

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6
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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7
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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8
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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9
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

1. Research to advance the conservation of songbird species at risk in agricultural landscapes; and 2. Research to improve our understanding of the distribution abundance and productivity of songbird species at risk.

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10
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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11
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer Society of Canada - Societe Alzheimer Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Uxbridge Hospital Foundation. 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

21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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 budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$185,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN DURHAM ASSOCIATION INC. — C$98,000 over 7y, 44% of budgetUXBRIDGE COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$98,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$79,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN — C$51,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY OF OTTAWA — C$23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION ON ONTARIO NATURALISTS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ONTARIO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Canada Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVIDENCE-BASED SOCIAL ENTERPRISES CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Society Toronto — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIDEAU VALLEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOak Ridges Moraine I and Trust — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorkman Arts,Toronto — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…My Tribute Gift Found…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Toronto FoundationON7.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 21 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 862940178:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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