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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives.

C$42M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$6.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$158k
  • C$50k–250k22 grants · C$3.1M
  • C$250k+30 grants · C$39M
C$217,500
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$271M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Queen's UniversityC$6,834,508
University Health NetworkC$4,567,318
University of British ColumbiaC$2,218,339
University of CalgaryC$2,112,387
BC Cancer part of the Provincial Health Services AuthorityC$2,034,099
Dalhousie UniversityC$1,840,276
Université de Montréal Associated charity:C$1,797,500
Ontario Institute for Cancer ResearchC$1,500,000
The Hospital for Sick ChildrenC$1,479,681
Mount Sinai HospitalC$1,323,225
McGill UniversityC$1,209,339
McMaster UniversityC$1,159,340
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre - UHNC$1,091,929
Centre de recherche du CHUMC$1,061,829
Ottawa Hospital Research InstituteC$934,567
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$104M
Quebec
C$28M
British Columbia
C$21M
Alberta
C$13M
Nova Scotia
C$7.4M
New Brunswick
C$2.4M
Manitoba
C$1.8M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$1.1M
Prince Edward Island
C$780k
Saskatchewan
C$335k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$178M · 71 repeat orgsC$5.5M to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
38

Total granted

C$178M
C$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$951k 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

  • QU
    Queen's University
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$27M · revenue +27%
  • UH
    University Health Network
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$23M · revenue +32%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$10.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • EC
    EIF CANADA - STAND UP FOR CANCER
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.4M
  • BC
    British Columbia Cancer Agency
    one grant, 2017 · C$940k
  • CI
    CENTRE INTEGRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE SANTE ET DE SERVICES SOCIAUX
    one grant, 2021 · C$453k · revenue +14%

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
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
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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3
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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4
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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5
The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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6
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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7
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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8
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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9
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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10
Health Sciences North Research Institute

Hsnri is focused on contributing to sustainable solutions for health challenges faced by ontario's northern and indigenous communities. our research priority areas are: 1. cancer solutions 2. cardiovascular health 3. healty aging 4.…

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11
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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12
Centre universitaire de santé McGill / McGill University Health Centre

Soins généraux et spécialisée médicaux de courte durée et services de soins de longue durée

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Abreast in a Boat Society. 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

103 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. 103 of the 119 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/103
Grantees still filing
82/103
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetQueen's University — C$26,551,538 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity Health Network — C$22,952,896 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$9,964,338 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$9,877,580 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBC Cancer part of the Provincial Health Services Authority — C$9,119,761 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$7,885,076 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversité de Montréal — C$7,170,972 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDalhousie University — C$6,960,024 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOttawa Hospital Research Institute — C$5,529,297 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMcMaster University — C$5,413,795 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children — C$5,239,804 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentre de recherche du CHUM — C$4,815,692 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,304,518 over 2y, 15% of budgetMcGill University — C$4,072,209 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEIF CANADA - STAND UP TO CANCER CANADA — C$4,025,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetSunnybrook Research Institute — C$3,059,318 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMcPeak-Sirois Group — C$1,825,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetThe Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centr — C$1,747,406 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre — C$1,675,881 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba — C$1,635,599 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROPEL Centre for Population Health Impact — C$1,632,630 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversité de Sherbrooke — C$1,513,943 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversite de Moncton — C$1,409,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$1,145,022 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$1,038,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Brunswick — C$1,017,434 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCentre for Addiction and Mental Health — C$947,266 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBritish Columbia Cancer Agency — C$940,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial University — C$930,910 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL — C$878,936 over 4y, 22% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario — C$812,508 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Prince Edward Island — C$780,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRyerson University — C$734,764 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestern University — C$727,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$725,159 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLaval University — C$654,994 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE INTEGRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE SANTE ET DE SERVICES SOCIAUX — C$453,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute — C$427,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaRS Discovery District — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLakehead University — C$399,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's College Hospital — C$361,796 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversite du Quebec a Montreal — C$352,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLondon Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. — C$299,158 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$282,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Hospital Foundation — C$281,060 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMcGill University Health Centre Foundation — C$240,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa Heart Institute — C$227,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Queen's University ↗
  • Who funds University Health Network ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds University of British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds BC Cancer part of the Provincial Health Services Authority ↗
  • Who funds University of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Université de Montréal ↗
  • Who funds Dalhousie University ↗
  • Who funds Mount Sinai Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Hospital Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds McMaster University ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Sick Children ↗
  • Who funds Centre de recherche du CHUM ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds McGill University ↗
  • Who funds EIF CANADA - STAND UP TO CANCER CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Sunnybrook Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds McPeak-Sirois Group ↗
  • Who funds The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centr ↗
  • Who funds CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre ↗
  • Who funds University of Manitoba ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL Centre for Population Health Impact ↗
  • Who funds Université de Sherbrooke ↗
  • Who funds Universite de Moncton ↗
  • Who funds University of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds University of Alberta ↗
  • Who funds University of New Brunswick ↗
  • Who funds Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ↗
  • Who funds British Columbia Cancer Agency ↗
  • Who funds Memorial University ↗
  • Who funds ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario ↗
  • Who funds University of Prince Edward Island ↗
  • Who funds Ryerson University ↗
  • Who funds Western University ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Société de Recherche …Fondation Brain Canad…Heart and Stroke Foun…The Leukemia & Lympho…Breakthrough T1D Cana…The Kidney Foundation…The Hospital for Sick…Weston Family Foundat…Diabetes Canada Diabè…Parkinson Canada Inc.Foundation for Advanc…Fighting Blindness Ca…
Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research SocietyQC21.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation · Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canada · The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe de Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · The Kidney Foundation of Canada / la Fondation Canadienne Du Rein · The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · Parkinson Canada Inc. · Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familiale · Fighting Blindness 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 119 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 2024-01-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under core health care.

Source object 118829803:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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