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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Arctic Inspiration Prize Charitable Trust

The artic inspiration prize encourages enables and celebrates the inspiring achievements of the people of the north.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Regions reached
C$980k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$93k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$980k
C$980,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IQALUIT MUSIC SOCIETYC$980,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$93,120
02Your 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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Nunavut Tunngavik Foundation

Provision of educational funding to inuit enrolled under the nunavut agreement in the form of a cultural and healing program and two scholarship programs

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2
Nunavut Arctic College

Post-Secondary Education

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3
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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4
The Nunavut National Parks Scholarship Trust

Scholarshp programs to inuit students

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5
The Howl Experience

The Howl Experience offers two separate programs: Howl Explorations and Howl High. Howl Explorations - Howl gives its participants an opportunity to explore a variety of locations (Rockies Maritimes and Yukon). Through this program the…

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6
Inuit Art Foundation

As the only national organization dedicated to supporting Inuit artists working in all media and geographic areas the Inuit Art Foundation has sought to empower and support Inuit artists’ self-expression and self determination while…

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7
Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre (Ahrn-Nu)

Health research

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8
Indspire

Indspire is committed to improving the outcomes of indigenous education in canada through our innovative programs to students from k-12 through post-secondary education. through its building brighter futures program since 1996 indspire has…

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9
The Arctic Institute of North America

Sponsor scientific research plus acquisition and dissemination of information about the North through the scientific journal 'Arctic' book publications Arctic Discovery & Access is a digital educational service Arctic Library photo…

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10
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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11
Makeway Foundation

MakeWay Foundation's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The Foundation supports convenes or funds hundreds of qualified donees every year from neighbourhood social programs to…

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12
Arctic Eider Society

Community-Driven research programs with Inuit and Cree on Sea ice Ecosystems Culturally Relevant Education Programs for Northern Schools Developing Environmental Stewardship and Networking for Research Education and Communications among…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arctic Rose Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Saskatchewan. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
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$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN - NUNAVUT LAW PROGRAM — C$135,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$93,120 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNunavut Literacy Council — C$76,800 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

Makeway FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Makeway FoundationBC8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 9 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 770661528:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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