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Aurea Foundation

The foundation was registered to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to pay or apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees under the income tax act (canada) and to advance education by developing organizing or presenting non-partisan public debates discussion workshops…

C$108k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$108k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$107,815
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$244k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$107,815
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$6.9M · 5 repeat orgsC$842k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$6.9M
C$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$108k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
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

  • FI
    FRASER INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$5.0M · revenue +53%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$750k · revenue +13%
  • ME
    MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$500k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k · revenue +91%
  • TM
    THE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · C$250k
  • MF
    MANNING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue -22%

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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Democracy Education Network / Le Reseau D'education De La De

Democracy Education Network (DEN) conducts research and provides its national civics education materials for educators to use in classrooms and courses across Canada and networks and does public awareness initiatives in partnerships with…

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2
Canadian Freedom Institute

Canadian freedom institute is committed to improving public knowledge in the principles of free market economies

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3
The Centre for International Governance Innovation

The centre for international governance innovation (cigi) is an independent nonpartisan think tank on international governance. led by experienced practitioners and distringuished academics cigi supports research forms networks advances…

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4
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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5
Conference of Defence Associations Institute

The CDA Institute is an independent non-partisan non public corporation with the mission to advance informed debate on National Security issues particularly those that pertain to National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces. Conducting…

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6
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien De Politiques Alternatives

1. Social scientific research about economic social and environmental public policy issues of relevance to Canadian society. 2. Analysis of and commentary about public policy decisions and proposals. 3. Educational activities including…

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7
The Institute On Governance

The iog explores develops and promotes the principales standards and practices which underlie good governance in the public sphere in canada and abroad. iog programs build and facilitate learning networks and partnership to disseminate…

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8
Canadian Public Relations Society Foundation Fondation De La SociÉTÉ Canadienne Des Relations Publiques

Scholarships bursaries awards research lecture slides

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9
The Public Interest Research Centre/Centre Pour La Recherche De L'intÉRÊT Public

Research issues of concern to public interest groups and non-profit associations in canada. the public interest research centre makes its research results available to the public.

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10
Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine

Travaux d'analyse et de rédactions et publications des études scientifiques

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11
La fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau /the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The foundation encourages research reflection and action in areas important to canadians. the foundation works through four programs: doctoral scholarships fellowships mentorships and public engagement events and conferences.

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12
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Macdonald-Laurier Institute / L'institut Macdonald-Laurier and the most unlike its peers is Beth Oloth Charitable Organization. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
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 budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$5,000,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$750,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE — C$500,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetC.D. HOWE INSTITUTE — C$450,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE — C$250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBETH OLOTH CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$107,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNING FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT — C$81,250 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE SAMARA CENTRE FOR DEMOCRACY — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWRITERS'TRUST OF CANADA — C$3,250 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.

The John Dobson Found…Hunter Family Foundat…Donner Canadian Found…Pirie Foundation Non-…Lotte and John Hecht …Weston Family Foundat…The Gwyn Morgan and P…Aqueduct FoundationWcpd FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…
The John Dobson FoundationQC10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John Dobson Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Donner Canadian Foundation · Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Asso · Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 12 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 2023-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 845833565:2023-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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