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Kingston, ON · Public foundation

Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

The foundation specializes in the management and administration of charitable gift funds or donor advised funds designed to help donors increase and sustain their support to qualified donees.

C$195M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4,782
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
Regions reached
C$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 4782 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2766 grants · C$8.2M
  • C$10k–50k1353 grants · C$27M
  • C$50k–250k510 grants · C$50M
  • C$250k+153 grants · C$110M
C$5,500
Median grant
22
Regions reached
C$2.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concordia UniversityC$4,232,000
University of Calgary - Faculty of MedicineC$3,200,000
Aga Khan MuseumC$3,104,000
University of Calgary - Cumming School of MedicineC$3,000,000
Ajax Pickering Hospital FoundationC$2,987,750
Sunshine Coast Regional DistrictC$2,607,319
Kwantlen Polytechnic University FoundationC$2,448,000
UHN FoundationC$2,186,187
Seneca CollegeC$2,050,000
Georgian Bay Land TrustC$2,008,932
Raymond James Canada FoundationC$1,991,810
Doctors Without BordersC$1,979,319
St. Paul's Foundation of VancouverC$1,776,202
Threshold Housing SocietyC$1,501,000
Authentic Walk MinistriesC$1,500,000
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Which regions its grants reach

Ontario
C$393M
British Columbia
C$208M
Alberta
C$164M
Quebec
C$78M
Manitoba
C$19M
Nova Scotia
C$15M
New Brunswick
C$12M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$6.7M
Saskatchewan
C$5.8M
Prince Edward Island
C$1.3M
Yukon
C$290k
Nunavut
C$235k
Northwest Territories
C$12k
How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$772M · 1784 repeat orgsC$86M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

1784 repeat relationships: 1545 still active in FY2024, 239 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1784
131

Total granted

C$772M
C$71M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

97%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY - CUMMING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$43M · revenue +27%
  • AC
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22M · revenue +65% · 28% of their budget
  • TS
    The Salvation Army Ajax
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$11M · revenue ×15 · 80% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AUNE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$45M · revenue -93% · 98% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HARRY AND BETTY BILLINGSLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$4.9M · revenue -77% · 78% of their budget
  • TL
    The Lum Family Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1.6M · revenue +53% · 79% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field
03the grantee network

1928 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1928 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

190
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
564
Early backer (in before they grew)
1912/1928
Grantees still filing
1484/1928
Grew since first funded

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AUNE FOUNDATION: C$44,835,756 over 1y, 98% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY - CUMMING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: C$43,398,339 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation: C$21,506,485 over 8y, 28% of budgetThe Salvation Army Ajax: C$10,808,163 over 8y, 80% of budgetAga Khan Museum: C$9,636,050 over 8y, 31% of budgetAjax Pickering Hospital Foundation: C$9,073,000 over 6y, 82% of budgetSunnybrook Foundation: C$8,830,316 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAuthentic Walk Ministries: C$8,500,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetKwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation: C$8,448,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Great Big Red Barn Foundation: C$8,273,073 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarkham Stouffville Hospital Foundation: C$8,113,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetFondation Famille Jacques Larivière: C$7,622,120 over 2y, 99% of budgetGrandview Children's Foundation: C$7,060,676 over 7y, 96% of budgetFoothills Country Hospice Society: C$6,909,750 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUHN Foundation: C$6,605,098 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Red Cross: C$6,512,564 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada: C$6,317,433 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetYork University: C$6,174,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNorth York General Hospital Foundation: C$5,983,636 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE TORONTO HESCHEL SCHOOL: C$5,900,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetSeneca College: C$5,552,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDoctors Without Borders: C$5,368,591 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetProstate Cancer Centre: C$5,263,418 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBonaventure (BAM) Foundation: C$5,263,370 over 2y, 100% of budgetRoyal Ontario Museum: C$5,105,250 over 7y, 18% of budgetSt. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver: C$5,032,400 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HARRY AND BETTY BILLINGSLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: C$4,933,439 over 1y, 78% of budgetConcordia University: C$4,737,206 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation: C$4,680,634 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetLAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY: C$4,669,930 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetOttawa Hospital Foundation: C$4,595,950 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetRick Hansen Foundation: C$4,568,250 over 5y, 17% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation: C$4,288,960 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Toronto: C$4,229,677 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSickKids Foundation: C$4,159,660 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNexcap Fondation: C$4,009,470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC SPCA - Provincial Office: C$3,953,360 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetUnited Way - Greater Toronto: C$3,860,888 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMORRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION: C$3,745,920 over 3y, 98% of budgetTrillium Health Partners Foundation: C$3,730,646 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society: C$3,686,764 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY: C$3,632,326 over 7y, 21% of budgetThe University of British Columbia: C$3,616,753 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Windsor: C$3,585,482 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA - CALGARY: C$3,332,010 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetCAMH Foundation: C$3,325,400 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetScarborough Health Network Foundation: C$3,261,750 over 6y, 12% of budgetThreshold Housing Society: C$3,122,083 over 4y, 63% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE AUNE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY - CUMMING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Salvation Army Ajax ↗
  • Who funds Aga Khan Museum ↗
  • Who funds Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sunnybrook Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Authentic Walk Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Great Big Red Barn Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Fondation Famille Jacques Larivière ↗
  • Who funds Grandview Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Foothills Country Hospice Society ↗
  • Who funds UHN Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
  • Who funds Nature Conservancy of Canada ↗
  • Who funds York University ↗
  • Who funds North York General Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TORONTO HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Seneca College ↗
  • Who funds Doctors Without Borders ↗
  • Who funds Prostate Cancer Centre ↗
  • Who funds Bonaventure (BAM) Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Royal Ontario Museum ↗
  • Who funds St. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds THE HARRY AND BETTY BILLINGSLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Concordia University ↗
  • Who funds BC Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rick Hansen Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds SickKids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Nexcap Fondation ↗
  • Who funds BC SPCA - Provincial Office ↗
  • Who funds United Way - Greater Toronto ↗
  • Who funds MORRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trillium Health Partners Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

White Rose Foundation…Gluskin Sheff Foundat…Viewpoint FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Garaga: Un rayon de s…The Gordon and Lorrai…La Fondation Familles…Deloitte Foundation C…Cannonbury FoundationNorrep FoundationThe Fairmount Foundat…Fondation Sandra Schm…
White Rose Foundation Inc.MB10.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 1 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: White Rose Foundation Inc. · Gluskin Sheff Foundation for Philanthropy · Viewpoint Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Garaga: Un rayon de soleil Garaga: A ray of sunshine · The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation · La Fondation Familles Samara · Deloitte Foundation Canada/La Fondation Deloitte Canada · Cannonbury Foundation · Norrep Foundation · The Fairmount Foundation · Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 896713500:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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