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Saint John, NB · Private foundation

Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation

To recieve and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada).

C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$6,877
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDC$10,000
MASSACHSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALC$6,877
QEII HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITYC$5,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 36% of grant dollars (C$24M). The 64% that went abroad (C$44M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 64% of all-years giving (C$44M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$38M · 8 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$57M · 11 repeat orgsC$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

C$57M
C$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+16%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$6.7M · revenue +22%
  • IF
    IWK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$3.0M · revenue +28%
  • AL
    ARTHUR LIVING ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$2.1M · revenue +33% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • SM
    ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$3.0M · revenue +8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MONCTONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3.0M · revenue +28%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC
    one grant, 2019 · C$2.9M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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2
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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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
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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5
The Foundation of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada/La Fondation Du College Royal Des Medecins Et Chirurgiens Du Canada

To fund awards in the area of post graduate medical education

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6
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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7
Royal University Hospital Foundation Inc.

Provide funds raised to Saskatchewan Health Authority for capital construction capital equipment staff education and scholarships fellowships patient care and research within Royal University Hospital. Provide funds raised to the…

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8
Lakehead University

University - Post Secondary Education and Research

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9
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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10
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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11
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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12
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Acadia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

22 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. 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$6,693,834 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$3,005,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$3,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MONCTON — C$3,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetARTHUR LIVING ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$2,118,174 over 6y, 100% of budgetSAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,033,062 over 3y, 16% of budgetSt. Francis Xavier University — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY — C$1,092,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetRIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetLAKEFIELD COLLEGE — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROTHERSAY NETHERWOOD SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQEII HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAGE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 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.

Harrison McCain Found…Ptarmigan Foundation …The Joyce Family Foun…The Windsor FoundationRiver Philip Foundati…The Community Foundat…The Greater Saint Joh…The McCain FoundationThe Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…Private Giving Founda…The David and Faye So…
Harrison McCain FoundationNB12.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harrison McCain Foundation · Ptarmigan Foundation Inc. · The Joyce Family Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · River Philip Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · The McCain Foundation · The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island Inc · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Private Giving Foundation · The David and Faye Sobey 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 806645909:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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