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Canadian Foundation for Governance Research (Cfgr) Fondation Canadienne de Recherche Sur la Gouvernance (Fcrg)

The foundation undertakes and supports empirical research on corporate governance issues through canadian perspective creating new knowledge of practical interest for canadian directors and boards of canadian companies.

C$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$150k
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

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$60k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$150k
C$30,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE OF CORPORATE DIRECTORSC$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$30,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$15,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$15,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 73% of grant dollars (C$810k). The 27% that went abroad (C$300k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 27% of all-years giving (C$300k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$990k · 8 repeat orgsC$120k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

C$990k
C$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k went to new ones.

50%100%’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 BRITISH COLUMBIA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$90k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$75k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    3× · 2019–2023 · C$45k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +19%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +3%
  • UD
    UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +45%

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 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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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
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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4
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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5
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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6
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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7
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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8
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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9
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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10
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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11
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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12
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Universite De Sherbrooke. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
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 BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE LAVAL — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 1y, 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.

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 16 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under teaching institutions.

Source object 876118100:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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